Artist
Roberto Carlos Lange (born 1980), better known by his stage name Helado Negro, is an American musician. In 2019 he was awarded a United States Artists Fellow in Music and also the recipient of a 2019 Grants to Artists award in Music from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2015 he received a Joyce Foundation award.
A South Florida native, born to Ecuadorian immigrants and based in Brooklyn, Roberto Carlos Lange’s upbringing provides essential elements to his songwriting, including his consistently bilingual—English and Spanish—lyrics. Exploring the expressivity within intense states of being, Latinx identity, and pluralistic sensibilities, his music as Helado Negro is an engrossing statement achieved through lyrically personal and political avant-pop music. Half a decade and half a dozen albums since Helado Negro’s 2009 debut album Awe Owe, and multiple projects under various aliases, Lange has cultivated an untraditional approach to songcraft that places his voice on an adventurous musical impulse without shying away from familiar pop appreciation.
Helado Negro is now signed to and released his 2019 album This Is How You Smile through RVNG Intl., a Brooklyn-based music institution. This Is How You Smile received an 8.5 rating and Best New Music from Pitchfork.
Tracks
1
Please Won't Please
03:04
2
Imagining What To Do
03:23
3
Echo For Camperdown Curio
01:10
4
Fantasma Vaga
04:24
5
Pais Nublado
04:32
6
Running
04:25
7
Seen My Aura
04:08
8
Sabana De Luz
03:17
9
November 7
02:23
10
Todo Lo Que Me Falta
04:36
11
Two Lucky
03:54
12
My Name Is For My Friends
01:38
Releases
Countries
Japan, United States of America
