The Catalan singer Bad Gyal won the MTV Europe Music Award (EMA) for "best Spanish artist" this Sunday, after beating other outstanding performers of the year 2022 in the popular vote. At the gala, which was held at the PSD Bank Dome in Düsseldorf, the author of songs like La prendo or Fiebre competed in this category with Rosalía, Quevedo, Fito
In any case, the strength of some artists, with a Catalan denomination of origin, who rise to the highest positions on the international pop ladder, is evident. In the case of Alba Farelo, artistically known as Bad Gyal, she achieves great recognition at 25 years of age for a career that has led her to fuse reggaeton, dancehall and trap with great success. Her award comes to her at a sweet moment, just when she has just released her new single Sin carnené and finished the Primavera Sound tour of Latin America with stops in São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile.
In November and December he has three other concerts scheduled in Mexico and his performance is scheduled for February 11 at the Palau Sant Jordi. As if all this were not enough, it has been sweeping the most diverse festivals in the last two years, from the Porta Ferrada in Sant Feliu de Guíxols to Primavera Sound, passing through the Arenal Sound or the Puro Latino Fest.
All this without even counting on what is considered an album proper, since what he has released so far are the Slow wine (2016) and Worldwide angel (2018) mixtapes. After leaving the independent edition and signing with Interscope, in 2019 he consecrated himself at the Sónar festival, where he had already debuted two editions before.
The following year she took her first steps as an actress, together with her father Eduard Farelo, in the spot for the Gaudí Awards, opportunely titled Gaudir. Her first EP, or miniLP, Warm up finally arrives in March 2021 with collaborations from El Guincho and Rauw Alejandro. Shortly after, she debuted in the world of fashion with the launch of a clothing collection, in collaboration with Bershka. This same year she ended the Bad Gyal Sound System tour that she signed with the three-song EP Sound System: The Final Release.
We were able to attest to her impressive staging on that tour at the concert she offered at the Guíxols Arena, in a sold out that showed that she had made a deep impression among women of various generations who see her as a very empowered artist, whose catchy rhymes and provocative lyrics and poses break the mold of a dancehall and trap scene too often dominated by macho clichés.
At this year's Primavera Sound he premiered his new show, called La Joia Tour, offering three performances at the festival with a new set that includes columns, projections, elaborate choreographies, eroticism and a self-confidence that makes his debut album highly anticipated. recorded in the United States, of which four songs have already been previewed: La prendo, Tremendo culón, Sexy and the recent Sin carnené. All of her albums, following the current trend, are only available for streaming and digital download.
For her part, the phenomenon Rosalía does not abate, and despite running out of awards at the MTV party, her great success obtained in Madrid, on November 4, at the WiZink Center, at the LOS40 Music Awards gala, still resonates. She took the stage to interpret Fame, the theme that she shares with The Weeknd, dressed in a striking black dress and accompanied by a dozen dancers.
It won three of the seven awards for which it was nominated, including best album and best concert for Motomami, whose tour continues at full throttle. He still has the leg of Europe that will end on December 15 and 18 in London and Paris, respectively. Among the huge figures handled by Sant Esteve Sesrovires, it is worth highlighting those of the song Despechá, premiered during the tour and included in the Deluxe edition of Motomami -with a 'live' version of La fame, recorded at their celebrated concerts at the Palau Sant Jordi-, which has become his most listened to song on Spotify, already exceeding 380 million views three months after its publication. And soon the lists will arrive with the best of the year in which her album will surely reach the top positions.
Rosalía is right now above good and evil, despite her numerous haters, and her great success has also served for multinationals to open the doors to other singers. This is what has happened with Chanel Terrero, who has just been signed by Sony after her controversial and triumphant passage through the Eurovision Song Contest, in which she won third place with SloMo.
The Cuban raised in Olesa de Montserrat is also a singer, dancer and actress, with extensive experience in musical theater. She has also made her debut for Sony with the single TOKE selected to be the official song of the Spanish team for the World Cup in Qatar.
One of the victims of the Benidorm Fest was Rigoberta Bandini, whose song Ay mama was a favorite of the public. However, the controversy provided her with free publicity that has contributed to the song becoming a feminist hymn and in the process has catapulted Paula Ribó to pop stardom, becoming another of the outstanding Catalan singers this season. It is something that becomes evident in the euphoria that arouses in her live performances and also in the streaming auditions of her debut album La empreatriz, which she will present in style at the Palau Sant Jordi on November 24, before temporarily retire, in what can be considered a strange decision, when he is at the height of his fame.
Sílvia Pérez Cruz plays in another division, but her international rise is also remarkable. While publishing the beautiful Havana song Amor del bo, hand in hand with Rozalén, she is immersed in a tour of Latin America in which, apart from presenting her latest album Farsa (impossible genre), she has shared stages in Buenos Aires and Montevideo with the also singer-songwriters Liliana Guerrero and María Gadú. After winning the National Prize for Current Music, the Palafrugellian has announced that she will publish a new album next spring at Sony, after leaving Universal, where she has edited all of her work.
It is an album about which little is known. He has revealed some details online, such as the title of the song Tots els finals del món. She has also shared the fragment of another song in which she is seen accompanied by a choir of voices with prominent names from the current Catalan pop scene, including Judit Neddermann, Rita Payés, Anna Ferrer, Lucía Fumero and Eva Fernández. .
