Chilean singer-songwriter and Latin GRAMMY® nominee Francisca Valenzuela announced today the July 30 release of her highly anticipated new album MALDITA via Frantastic. A raw, personal exploration of female hysteria, rage, terror, and tenderness, MALDITA was forged in the delirious, maddening, beautiful, horrible, and disorienting landscape of the postpartum era.
MALDITA is an unapologetically vulnerable, stylish, energetic, dark, moody, and elegant catharsis. More than an album, it is a cultural conversation that transcends language and borders — connecting all those who have felt inadequate, misunderstood, alone, or broken, and who have crumbled under pressure and spiraled into the darkness. The album shatters the fantasy of the performative, patriarchal, one-sided story of motherhood.
“This album is the house you are trapped in,” says Valenzuela. “The journey of your reality being ripped apart, and the journey of putting yourself back together. It’s an album I made during my postpartum period — with a messy bun, a hoodie stained with breastmilk and most likely baby vomit, between naps and bottles and diaper changes. I made the whole album with my producer and dear friend Francisco Victoria, who kindly came to my home and patiently worked around my erratic schedule. The album is very raw and very live.”
Valenzuela previously released “BUGAMBILIA” last month as the first preview of MALDITA. Built upon her signature piano work and an atmosphere of taut strings, the song opens an uncomfortable and rarely explored emotional territory: the contradictory emotions and internal shifts that can emerge in the wake of new motherhood.
Most recently, on Mother’s Day, Valenzuela shared a video diary about breastfeeding, accompanied by a snippet of “EXTRACCIÓN,” offering an intimate glimpse into the album’s world.
“I created EXTRACCIÓN to echo the solitary, lonely loop of breastfeeding,” Valenzuela explains. “Delirious, dedicated, frustrating, tender, obsessive. There is an automatic assumption that you are supposed to know how to do it, enjoy it, and not mention or know how to face the possible ambivalence, tension, or discomfort. It is humbling. I had never felt so human, so not-knowing what I am doing.”
“It touches on the taboo,” she continues, referring to the LP. “It is about MATRESCENCE — the process of becoming a mother, and I hope that this album adds to the moving, fundamental body of work made by women whose stories, about motherhood, no-motherhood, female rage, survival, have nurtured me and have kept me company and have been my lifeline. Yesterday, before, now, and tomorrow.”
MALDITA Track List:
1 – MALDITA
2 – SOS
3 – MALACARA
4 – SOY TU FAN
5 – LEVEMENTE INFELIZ
6 – DEBERÍA TOMAR MÁS AGUA
7 – EXTRACCIÓN
8 – BUGAMBILIA
9 – NO TE ABURRAS DE MÍ
10 – NACÍ NECESITÁNDOTE
11 – AÑO UNO
12 – KOMOREBI
The album announcement coincides with one of Francisca’s most expansive years, both on and off the stage. Alongside revealing a Fall U.S. Tour today, Valenzuela was recently named a ‘Wonder Woman of Latin Music’ by Amazon Music and the Latin Alternative Music Conference, an honor she will receive at LAMC 2026 in New York.
Ruidosa, the feminist platform and festival Francisca founded in 2016, will also return to New York’s Lincoln Center on July 12 for its third consecutive year as part of Summer for the City, before celebrating its 10th anniversary in Santiago, Chile on October 10 and 11st
Artist presale for the tour dates opens May 28 at 10am local time, with general on-sale beginning Friday, May 29 at 10am local time. Ticket links can be found HERE, and a full list of tour dates can be found below.
FRANCISCA VALENZUELA 2026 TOUR DATES
Jul 12 – New York, NY – Ruidosa Fest
Aug 13 – Temuco, Chile – Teatro Municipal Temuco
Aug 14 – Valdivia, Chile – Teatro Cervantes
Aug 15 – Frutillar, Chile – Teatro del Lago
Aug 28 – Concepción, Chile – Teatro Biobío
Sep 06 – Viña del Mar, Chile – Teatro Municipal de Viña del Mar
Sep 23 – Santiago, Chile – Gran Sala Sinfónica Nacional
Oct 18 – Barcelona, ESP – Razzmatazz 3
Oct 22 – Sevilla, ESP – Sala X
Oct 24 – Palma, ESP – Es Gremi
Oct 25 – Madrid, ESP – Sala UNI
Oct 26 – Valencia, ESP – Loco Club
Nov 03 – Washington, DC – The Atlantis
Nov 04 – Brooklyn, NY – National Sawdust
Nov 14 – Los Angeles, CA – The Roxy
Nov 15 – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop
Nov 17 – Seattle, WA – Hidden Hall
Nov 20 – Mexico City, MX – Foro Puebla
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