Rosalía

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Rosalía Vila Tobella, dite Rosalía, née le 25 septembre 1992 à Sant Cugat del Vallès (Catalogne), est une auteure-compositrice-interprète, musicienne, productrice et actrice espagnole.

Collaboration avec Björk

Oral, titre caritatif co-produit avec Sega Bodega

Björk à propos de sa collaboration avec Rosalía

What did Rosalía tell you about the song when she finally heard it ?
She loved it straight away. I think she most wanted to do this because of the environment. It would have been tricky if she didn’t like the tune, but she loved it.
It’s a song where it was easy to imagine her being in it. But we didn’t know how to do it. She asked me, “What do you want me to do ?” And I just said, “Do whatever you feel like.” I wrote the lyrics and the melodies, and she re-sang half of them with her arrangement or take on it. We were using the same pattern that I did originally of the beat, but we’re producing it together, trying to figure out a way to make the beat still true to what it was but it still feels like 2023.
How did you first meet Rosalía ?
I heard her first album, where she was singing flamenco, maybe five years ago. I loved it. I was obsessed with it and listened to it nonstop. And I contacted her through Pablo [Díaz-Reixa], he’s called El Guincho, and he works with her. He actually came to Brooklyn to help me with beats on two of my Biophilia albums back in 2010 or something.
So the next time I came to Barcelona, I met with them and Alejandra [Rodríguez], you know, Arca. She lives in Barcelona now. So we were hanging out, the four of us ; that was quite cute. I think we talked about [recording] something, but it has to be the right time and the right song.

Rolling Stone

I’ve known her for a few years, so I just texted her, and she immediately said yes, before even having heard the song. I think she was also wanting to support the cause. I told her about the fish farming, and we’ve been chatting about it. We translated the press release into Spanish, because it’s a huge problem in Argentina and Chile. I’m hoping it will somehow encourage people in all these other countries to do something.

Pitchfork

Dancehall is the grandmother of reggaeton. When I heard it, I thought : Rosalía had a lot of reggaeton on her album. I know she really cares and wants to act. I think she was excited about it because she wants to do something about the environment.

The Guardian

Now it’s become another genre of music called Reggaeton , and Rosalia’s last album was inspired by Reggaeton , so I thought of her. I have known her for a few years and decided to send her a message to ask if she would be willing to be a guest singer. She just answered : Yes, I’m with you ! Especially because we wanted to release this for the sake of the environment."

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