“Canción sin miedo,” performed by Vivir Quintana alongside the Regional Women's Band Mujeres del Viente Florido, is extremely powerful. Its lyrics, explicit and blunt, are a tribute and a cry of rage from the mothers who lose their daughters to femicides that occur daily in Mexico.

In a music video filmed in black and white, the songwriter traveled to the Sierra Mixe in Oaxaca to surround herself with brave women who joined her. The beginning of the lyrics is an alert: “Let the State tremble, the skies, the streets. Let the judges and the judiciary tremble. Today women take away our calm. They sown fear in us, we grew wings."

The song is performed simultaneously in Spanish and in Ayuukj and Mixe, the local language of the region. Quintana explained on Instagram about her experience with the women of the mountains, with whom she recorded the music that will serve as a boost for the next International Women's Day on March 8.

With them, she shared days of work and music, which reflected on the protest song. In the music video, young and old women, armed with instruments and dressed in colorful traditional attire, march through the roads of the mountains to demand an end to femicides.

It's a careful audiovisual production that contributes solemnity to the message. The chorus says it all: “We sing without fear, we ask for justice. We scream for each missing person. Let it resound loudly "we want each other alive!". Let the femicide fall hard.”

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The song was released via YouTube and Spotify, and shows the pain that unites Sierra Mixe women, and gave them the strength to move forward together. Quintana said “the issue of violence, of femicides, must be visible. Not as a centralized theme, but to show that suffering is suffered everywhere.” But she clarified: “women are also participants in joy and happiness.”

Gabriela, a member of the band that accompanied Quintana, was in charge of producing the musical arrangements for the song, which gave it a new touch, different from the original version.

"I really liked the fact that they open spaces for women and make arrangements, I imagined my colleagues who were able to speak from their instruments," she said.

For Quintana, her stay in the town of Tlahuitoltepec was an experience of discovering and peace, where she felt accompanied by women who made her feel like part of her family.

The first version of “Canción sin miedo” was released on March 7, 2020, and has since then become a protest anthem for women in Mexico and Latin America in their protest against femicide. On Saturday, March 5, the Regional Women's Band Mujeres del Viente Florido and Quintana performed it together at the Esperanza Iris Theater in Mexico City.