What happens when distance ceases to be an obstacle and becomes a song? That’s the question behind “Flying With You,” the new release from IRACA featuring Congolese artist Mis Blandine, a collaboration that connects the sounds of the Colombian Andes with the energy of Afrobeats and finds in music a way to cross borders.
The song was born from a simple and universal idea: missing someone, thinking about that person, and imagining that, for a moment, the distance disappears. That feeling became a musical journey that unites two territories separated by thousands of kilometers, but connected by rhythm, dance, and a shared sensibility.
Mis Blandine, a singer-songwriter born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and based in Toronto, Canada, has crafted a sound that blends Congolese rumba with influences of R&B, jazz, pop, and Afrobeats. Winner of the African Entertainment Award for Best Female Vocalist, the artist traveled to Colombia specifically to star in the music video for “Volando Contigo” (Flying With You), directed by the production company 18-95 and filmed in the mountain landscapes outside Bogotá.
In this music video, the mountains, the wind, the earth, and the light of the sunset accompany a story marked by distance and the desire to reconnect. Nature becomes part of the narrative, establishing a contrast between moments of contemplation and the energy that emerges when the music and dance take over the landscape.
One of the most powerful visual moments occurs on a railway track, where Cañón, Sua, and Mis Blandine appear at different times and from different perspectives. The track winds through the mountains and connects with the song’s lyrics. Cañón, for her part, appears with her guitar, wandering through the landscape, while Sua and Mis Blandine also traverse that same space from different perspectives, as if each inhabited her own segment of the same story.
Mis Blandine also incorporates Lingala into the song, adding a new linguistic and cultural layer to this sonic fusion. Her voice meets IRACA’s identity to construct a song in which Afrobeats converses with elements of Colombian music, electronic music, and folk music.
Dance also plays a leading role through Diafrihall, a dance company directed by Engie García, whose work explores Afro-urban and contemporary dances and reclaims, through movement, the identity, beauty, and talent of Afro women. The group also proposes a challenge around the chorus of “Volando Contigo,” bringing the song from the music video to the audience’s participation. Its members share different dance moments with Sua and Mis Blandine.
“Volando Contigo” is IRACA’s third collaborative single, following “Impulsa mi Destino” with Walka and “El Arte No Se Calla” with Pernett. These collaborations are part of a phase in which IRACA continues to expand its musical universe through collaborations that connect different scenes, languages, and cultures.
About IRACA: IRACA is a band from Bogotá that fuses Andean sounds with electronic music, creating a powerful, spiritual, and contemporary sound. Led by SUA on vocals and synthesizers and CAÑÓN on guitars and bagpipes, they present beats and lyrics that are a song of roots, a voice of energy and strength that connects with the land and Latin American identity. Their name refers to the Hawks of the Andes and an ancestral territory. Their music is an amalgamation of traditional Colombian bambuco and electronic music.
