No Para

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"No Para"
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Single by Daniela Lalita
from the album Trececerotres
LanguageSpanish
ReleasedAugust 24, 2022 (2022-08-24)
Studio Sterling Sound, Edgewater, NJ
Genre
Length3:31
Label Young
Songwriters
Producer
  • Daniela Lalita
Daniela Lalita singles chronology
"Tenía Razón"
(2022)
"No Para"
(2022)
Music video
"No Para" on YouTube

"No Para" (English: "Do not stop") is a song by Peruvian musician Daniela Lalita. It was released on August 24, 2022, through Young as the second single of her debut EP Trececerotres (2022), and was written by her and Miguel Ballumbrosio.

Contents

Recording and composition

"No Para" was recorded at Sterling Sound. [1] Along with the production and songwriting of the song, which was co-written by Michael Ballumbrosio, Daniela Lalita also did vocals and played Buchla synthesizer. Additional programming and audio engineering was carried out by Alex Epton. Other personnel included Gabriel Schuman, who did the audio mixing, and Grammy Award winner Joe LaPorta, who mastered the song at Sterling Sound. [1] [2] The song is set in the time signature of common time, with a very fast tempo of 176 beats per minute. It is composed in the key of Fm and has a basic sequence of C–Fm–D–Hm as its chord progression. [3]

Release and reception

After its release on August 24, 2022 through Young, [4] District Magazine included the song "No Para" in its 'Top 10 Tracks', the essential weekly round-up of the best new music. [5]

Music video

The music video "No Para", directed by Bradley & Pablo with "Lalita dressed in her own hand-sewn garments, re-enacting a ritual she performed months prior in the same area" was filmed at a volcanic site near Arequipa, Peru, approximately 16,000 feet above sea level. She has described the location as significant to her grandmother's worldview. [6] [7]

Track listing and formats

Digital download [4] [8]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."No Para"
  • Lalita
3:31

Credits and personnel

Musicians

Technical

References

  1. 1 2 "2022 EP | Daniela Lalita | Trececerotres". Sterling-Sound.com. Archived from the original on May 4, 2025. Retrieved May 4, 2025.
  2. "Artist Joe LaPorta". Grammy . The Recording Academy. Archived from the original on May 4, 2025. Retrieved May 4, 2025.
  3. "Daniela Lalita - No Para (Official Music Video)". Chordify. September 16, 2022. Retrieved May 25, 2025.
  4. 1 2 "No Para". Young . August 24, 2022. Retrieved April 21, 2025.
  5. "Top Ten Tracks: Not The Twos, Ezra Collective & more 26/8/22". District Magazine. Dublin. August 26, 2022. Retrieved May 26, 2025.
  6. Lalita, Daniela (October 31, 2022). "Line Noise: With Daniela Lalita" (Interview). Interviewed by Cardew, Ben. Primavera Sound.
  7. Huilcape Meléndez, Sofía (June 1, 2021). "Arequipa: productora británica graba videoclip en el Mirador de los Volcanes" [Arequipa: British production company shoots video clip at the Mirador de los Volcanes]. El Búho (in Spanish). Retrieved May 10, 2025.
  8. "No Para by Daniela Lalita". Bandcamp . Retrieved May 25, 2025.
  9. Ferreiro, Teresa (September 29, 2022). "Daniela Lalita". Nuebo (in Spanish). Madrid. p. 58. Archived from the original on February 26, 2023. Retrieved October 20, 2025.