AUTHOR SERGIO NIÑO PHOTOGRAPHY @DORIAN.PH (IG)


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BRIELA VENENO


LEARNING TO BEGIN AGAIN


Starting over is rarely as romantic as electronic music likes to imagine. New cities promise possibility, but they also demand repetition. New rooms. New introductions. New scenes that have no reason to trust you yet. What looks like movement from the outside often feels like reconstruction from within.


At 24, Briela Veneno has already learned how to begin several times again. After establishing herself within Colombia’s electronic landscape, performing at festivals including Baum Festival, Estéreo Picnic and EDC México, she carried her sound beyond South America, touring Europe before eventually settling in Spain. Each move required a different kind of adjustment. Not only professionally, but personally.


Yet what stands out in her story is the absence of nostalgia. She rarely speaks about migration as loss. Instead, she describes it as a process of expansion.


“Migration has been, above all, a deeply transformative experience of self- exploration and self-discovery,” she says. “Being in a position where you have to start from scratch and rely entirely on yourself inevitably brings out your ability to create, adapt and find solutions for every challenge that arises.”


That sense of self-reliance runs through everything she describes. The uncertainty is real. So are the frustrations. But the emphasis consistently returns to growth rather than displacement. Beginning again became less about abandoning a previous version of herself and more about discovering what remained intact under pressure.


New York intensified that process.


The city arrived with its own velocity. Faster, louder and more demanding than anything she had previously experienced. It became both a challenge and a mirror.


“New York has something very specific about it: its deeply creative energy,” she explains. “Being exposed to a city that moves so fast and demands so much allows you to discover just how capable you are of adapting to a rhythm where creativity and artistic vision must take centre stage.”


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