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His lyrics began to resonate on social networks and emerging music platforms and, little by little, they have become hymns for a generation that understands music as a form of denunciation as well as therapy, that loves the mixture of musical genres but also refuses to label them.
Julia Isern, known as Lia Kali, at the age of 21, has become an unexpected benchmark in rap and urban music thanks to the album Against All Odds. In it, the Barcelonan strips emotionally and speaks openly about her time at the Adolescent Crisis Unit (UCA) and how after that traumatic experience her music helped her heal.
"Talking about it is necessary because there are many children who suffer in these centers and they must be reported," says the young Catalan, who will soon be on the Cruïlla stage. In April she presented her album on the stage of the Apolo room (Barcelona) and comments that it has not yet exceeded that about 1,500 people chanted her song to her life with her.
In the case of Zahara, her leap to stardom —or rather liberation— came after the pandemic with Merichane. The artist, originally from Úbeda, used the insult with which she was martyred as a child to name a feminist hymn that gave rise to a
“I still get messages from women telling me about their experiences. Just yesterday I received a message from a girl who told me that she was wearing Puta's tour shirt, where she puts all the names of the album, and she told me that she was wearing it because of everything that the song had healed her”, says Zahara. The artist has taken an interesting turn towards electronic music this year with a powerful political discourse and in July she will go through the Alma Festival in Pedralbes as the headliner. “It is the first time that I am headlining the music circuits or, at least, I am at the top, on a par with my colleagues”, comments the singer.
Isabel Hernández has been dubbed the promise of Spanish soul, but she retaliates against labels and prefers to be known simply by Izah. Born in Manchester but raised in Barcelona, her music shows that the jazz and blues circuits also work among young audiences.
His debut came in 2014 with the album Izah Blues, but today and after a long career he begins a new stage in which he self-publishes to be able to freely produce his next EP. “The Izah who makes music and composes what is born to her remains the same,” she comments, adding, however, that her sound is getting closer and closer to a fresh and renewed R
The last card of this poker of queens is occupied by Susana Ventura, known as Suu. At 22 years old, she has already released three albums and has made an entire generation dance with great songs like Tu a Menorca i jo a l'Escala, but also to heal a heartbreak with singles like Tant de bo. “It's been a year since I released a record and now I want to make new music for live shows”, she confirms a few days after stepping on the Cruïlla. Refreshing rhythms for high temperatures.
This young singer-songwriter, who is beginning to consolidate herself on the national scene singing in Spanish but also in Catalan, believes that language is not a barrier: "you have to make music in the language with which you feel most comfortable and that you believe you can really connect with the public", he argues.
