If you’re going to strut como La Jefa, then you’re going to need a backing track. 

The new limited series Griselda stars Sofía Vergara as devoted mother and savvy and ambitious businesswoman Griselda Blanco. Inspired by the real-life “Godmother,” the story follows her rise through the Miami crime world to create one of the most profitable cartels in history. And that smoky setting needed music to match the allure of ’70s and ’80s Miami. “There’s such a wealth of great music from this period, and to be period accurate in this case was pretty easy because a lot of these songs are incredibly well known,” said creator and executive producer Eric Newman.

From David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” to Donna Summer’s “Hot Stuff,” the music in Griselda is meant to feel very much of a recognizable time and place. In addition to Latin and Caribbean music, the soundtrack also features plenty of disco, which Newman says is “one of the great movements in music that doesn’t get the credit it deserves for how brilliantly produced some of these records were — and continue to be.”

Newman also nods to the encyclopedic music knowledge of director and executive producer Andrés Baiz, who he says always had music in mind that would best tell the story. Very early on in the development of the project, Baiz created a Griselda playlist that he was constantly updating. They were all period songs, but from all possible genres. Once he shared the playlist with the show’s editors, Kelly Stuyvesant and Joaquin Elizondo, they started placing songs in the episodes. “It’s great because they aren’t always where you expect, so they play against the grain, and the emotion that you derive from this counterposition is wonderful,” Baiz told Netflix.

The team also enlisted Grammy Award–winning composer Carlos Rafael Rivera (The Queen’s Gambit) to find the musical voice of the score. Baiz told Rivera, “I want you to be bold. I want your music to not be restrained.” The director didn’t want a minimalistic score, leaning more toward an operatic sound for someone who lived as loudly as Griselda Blanco. “It’s ballsy,” said Biaz. “It reflects Griselda as a character very much.”

Get down to songs on the Griselda soundtrack now, below. And listen to the full playlist on Spotify. 

Episode 101

Bob Patterson “I’m Going Home”
APM “Bluebird”
Afrosound “Maria Isabel”
Donna Summer “Hot Stuff”
Elias Rahbani and His Orchestra “Liza... Liza”
Charanga Sensación de Rolando Valdés “Charanga Pa’Gozar”
Charanga Sensación de Rolando Valdés “Oye No Me Beses”
Los Guaracheros de Oriente “Sueltame, Vieja”
Jorge Sepúlveda “Mirando al Mar”
Elia y Elizabeth “Soy una Nube”
Los Graduados “El Aguardientoski”
Chilly “For Your Love”

Episode 102

Ralph Robles “Come and Get It”
Wild Wind “What We Can Do”
APM “Alleluja”
APM “O Soave Fanciulla”
Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson “We’re Gonna Get Back Together”
Dick Walter “Dreams (A)”
Ekseption “Air”
Sandy Nelson “Let There Be Drums”
Dick Walter “Missing You (B)”
APM “Sunshine and Dreams”
Mongo Santamaria and actors “Watermelon Man”
Eugene Blacknell “I’m So Thankful”
C.J. & Co. “Get a Groove in Order to Move”
Joe Dassin “Salut”

Episode 103

Umberto Tozzi “Gloria (Spanish Version)”
Shirley Nanette “Yours Truly Love”
The Ovations featuring Louis Williams “One in a Million”
APM “Symphony No. 2 in C-Minor Resurrection”
APM “Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major — Third Movement”
Climaco Sarmiento y su Orquesta “La Cigarra (aka The Cicada)”
Boney M. “Gotta Go Home”
Pulse “Ramona”

Episode 104

Roger Whittaker “Mammy Blue”
Jimmy Briscoe and the Beavers “Invitation to the World”
Ray and His Court “La Señorita Lola”
Grandpa “Ou La La”
Los Kintos “Sácalo Sácalo”
Harry Nilsson “Lullaby in Ragtime”
Robert Edwards “Funky on the Bottom”
APM “Serenade”

Episode 105

The Romantics “Talking in Your Sleep”
Ryan Paris “Dolce Vita”
Ruth Brown “Sweet Baby of Mine”
David Bowie “Let’s Dance”
APM “Prendi un Treno con Me”
Miami Sound Machine “Dr. Beat”
DeWolfe Music “Don’t Let Go”
Francesco De Masi “Hot Camera Shake”
APM “Heaven”
Actors “Happy Birthday”
Pearl Dowdell “Good Things”
Hit Shack “Tried and True (Final)”
Deborah Foster “Whip It on Me”
DJ Small “Summer Fun”
Julie Sims “Sex Toy”
Serge Gainsbourg “Black Trombone”
The Joe Cuba Sextet “Do You Feel It?”

Episode 106

Coke “Na Na”
Armando Hernandez “La Zenaida”
Sister Rosetta Tharpe “Jericho”
Richard Berry & The Pharaohs “Have Love Will Travel”
Luna Monti and Juan Quintero “El Niño Canibal”
Marion Black “Who Knows”

Stream Griselda now, only on Netflix.