Eva Cortés is a jazz vocalist, composer and songwriter born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras raised in Seville, Spain who resides in NYC. She released an album on CBS at age seven, studied Philology in Seville, and has since developed a body of work blending jazz with flamenco, blues, and Latin traditions.

Her ninth album, La Malinche (2026), features collaborations with Pepe Rivero, Roman Filiú, Zaccai Curtis, Christian McBride, Antonio Sánchez, and other leading musicians, and focuses on identity, history, and cultural memory.

La Malinche is a record born from urgency. From ICE raids and systemic racism to abuse of power and erased histories, this album is Eva Cortés singing back—loudly, rhythmically, and without apology. She calls it “Protest meets Rhythm”: music as vindication, memory, and collective dance floor.

The title references La Malinche, the Indigenous woman enslaved during the Spanish conquest who became translator, survivor, and mother of the first mestizo child recorded in colonial chronicles. Cortés reclaims her not as a traitor, but as a symbol of resilience, forced hybridity, and Indigenous endurance. From Ushuaia (Argentina) to Utqiagvik (Alaska), the album insists on a radical truth: despite borders, colonization, and attempts at erasure, the Indigenous peoples of the Americas are one continuum—alive, strong, and still reclaiming their destiny.

Musically, La Malinche blends jazz with flamenco,  Afro-Latin and Indigenous influences.