On 1 August 2025, Sara Curruchich opened the 25th Festival du Bout du Monde on the Prairie de Landaoudec in Crozon, Brittany, singing in Kaqchikel to more than 10,000 people, the first Maya artist to play the festival in its history.

Curruchich grew up in San Juan Comalapa, in the highlands of Guatemala. She writes in Kaqchikel and Spanish, her mother tongue woven through songs about Indigenous rights, land, and the memory of Maya women. She tours with an all-women band: Sandra Moreno on marimba, Moty on drums, Karla Molkovich on bass. Moreno’s marimba holds the wooden, resonant patterns of Guatemalan tradition, Molkovich’s electric bass hits hard, and Moty’s snare cracks push the groove between cumbia and reggae.

The song is the title track of her 2021 album Mujer Indígena, produced by Amparo Sánchez for Mamita Records: racism, machismo, the theft of Indigenous land. France made Curruchich a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2024 for this body of work.

Stream “Mujer Indígena” HERE