New York is the promised land for musicians, welcoming outstanding and virtuoso performers from every corner of the world hoping to find success.
Diego, an Afro-Colombian musician, leaves his family behind on the Pacific Coast of Colombia with this in mind. He endures a solitary life as an undocumented immigrant and a minimum wage job at a cemetery all to become an ambassador of his music and culture.
With unprecedented access to New York’s underground Latin American music scene, Dreams of Chonta takes us where the greatest musicians from around the world blend to create, perform, live, and breathe music. Through his legacy and impressive performances, Diego honors the richness and waves of change that immigration produces.