Do you have a theme song? Ayisha Jaffer’s is “Soy Yo,” the Bomba Estéreo song that yells, Hey world, this is me! In vocalist Li Saument’s words: “Sigo caminando, sigo riendo/ Hago lo que quiero, muero en el intento” (in English: “I keep going, I keep laughing/ I do what I want, or I’ll die trying”).

Ayisha has already brought fun new energy to The Current, hosting the evening shift on weekends from 6-10 p.m. Now, get to know her even better through a sampler of her favorite songs. After “Soy Yo,” she bookends the playlist with “two queens of [her] heart”: Santigold and Ms. Lauryn Hill. In the middle, she packs in raging punk tracks, uptempo indie pop, vintage hip-hop, and much more. “I have a story for literally each of these songs that I can’t wait to share on the air,” Ayisha says.

¿Quién es? ¡Es ella! Y estamos felices que sí.

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