Sofia Cordoba releases ‘Symptom of Love’ as her first English-language single, blending acoustic pop songwriting, emotional vulnerability and bilingual storytelling through intimate lyrics, soft textures and reflective production while expanding her artistic identity beyond Colombia with a globally minded contemporary sensibility today
Sofia Cordoba expands her musical universe with ‘Symptom of Love’, the Colombian singer-songwriter’s first official release in English. Built around acoustic guitars and emotionally direct songwriting, the single introduces a softer and more expansive side of her artistry while preserving the intimacy that has shaped her work since emerging in Bogotá’s music scene in 2023.
Sofia Cordoba releases ‘Symptom of Love’
The track arrives alongside a self-directed visual co-created with Esmé Thompson, extending the song’s reflective atmosphere through understated imagery and emotional restraint. Produced by Chris Deyo Braun and mixed by Chris Tabron, ‘Symptom of Love’ balances polished pop structures with a diaristic sensibility that recalls the emotional transparency of early 2000s songwriting without falling into nostalgia.
Cordoba describes the song as an attempt to transform absence into tenderness. Rather than framing loneliness as emptiness, she approaches it as unresolved affection, giving emotional vulnerability a quieter and more hopeful dimension. That duality also reflects her relationship with language. Writing in both Spanish and English has long formed part of her creative process, allowing different emotional registers and narrative textures to emerge naturally across songs.
Her influences move between Latin American icons including Gustavo Cerati and Charly García, alongside artists such as Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Lana Del Rey and Shakira. However, Cordoba’s perspective remains deeply connected to Colombia, a place she describes as culturally layered and emotionally shaped by music’s ability to unite fragmented realities.
At the centre of her work lies connection. Cordoba approaches songwriting less as confession and more as a shared emotional space where listeners can recognise themselves. ‘Symptom of Love’ signals not a reinvention, but a widening of that conversation as her audience continues to grow beyond South America.
