My stage name, Morena, came from my last name, Moreno. I wanted a name that would evoke feminism and make it clear that the artist is a woman. Experimenting with letters, I decided to change the “o” for an “a”, thus creating “Morena”, a name that I loved from the beginning. In addition, Morena not only honors my father’s last name, but also celebrates the essentially Latin American skin color, representing my identity and cultural roots.