Mobéy Lola Irizarry (they/she) is a genderqueer composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, painter, and transdisciplinary artist. Based in Brooklyn, they hail from the Puerto Rican diaspora in Hartford, CT, and are a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. 

She makes within the lineages of decolonial uprisings, collections of tiny mirrors at queer clubs, and things that come from trees. Mobéy is a cofounder and composer for Las Mariquitas, NYC’s Queer and Trans-centered Salsa band, and a member of the experimental performance trio Dendarry Bakery and the Latin Rock outfit AVATAREDEN. 

After two engaging experimental-pop releases as Xango/Suave, 2016’s 1320 and 2018’s full-length equis, Lola teamed up with Funnybone Records to release There Is Not a Metaphor That Can Contain in summer of 2019 under the name Bebé Machete, which included the triptych “Ghazal” and upbeat homage to home, “Sol.” During the 2020 pandemic, she returned with “Kimimaro” and “Blueprint”.

In 2023 alone she has performed at the Denver Art Museum, the Shed, was a resident artist at CEPA in Puerto Rico, established Las Mariquitas’ “Salserx Futurism” residency in collaboration with the bar Cmon Everybody, and co-composed a ballet with Dendarry Bakery and choreographer Arthur Aviles for the New York Theatre Ballet and the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance. Lola’s solo album Seka’s Dream was released on May 10, 2023 via Panapen Records and Funnybone Records.