Andrew Gilbert July 14, 2021Updated: July 14, 2021, 7:07 pm
La Doña performs at the Stern Grove Festival on June 20 in San Francisco. Photo: Paul Kuroda / Special to The Chronicle
Running late to her job as Latin music analyst for Pandora Radio one morning in the summer of 2018, Cecilia Peña-Govea figured she’d drive to the Mission District office rather than ride her bicycle.
Instead of arriving at work, however, she crashed into a stalled car while heading north on Interstate 280. Peña-Govea recalls feeling her spirit rise out of her body and experiencing an epiphany that revealed her first song as La Doña, the femmetón singer-songwriter.
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