Rosalía Shares the Significance of Singing in Spanish for Her MTV VMAs Debut Regardless of Backlash

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Rosalía continues to march to the beat of her personal drum!

The 26-year-old singer is opening up about her music, what it was like performing on the 2019 MTV VMAs and extra. As W Journal’s newest cowl star, the Latin Grammy winner candidly shared what it was prefer to make her first televised look on a serious American awards present.

“I used to be so completely satisfied that I might sing in Spanish,” she expressed about her MTV VMAs efficiency, the place she sang her hit tunes “Aute Cuture,” “A Ningun Hombre” and “Yo x Ti, Tu x Mi” with Ozuna. “As a musician, language is nearly like one other instrument. Each phrase has a sound.”

She added, “And if that is the primary time I am on tv in America, I needed the world to listen to me.”

The Spanish singer defined that together with dancing and singing, she has to do “hair-ography.” She mentioned, “There isn’t a lip-syncing in any respect, and there’s all that hair transferring round.”

Naturally, her efficiency was positively one to recollect, as she dazzled on the stage with a crystal-adorned corset and leather-based latex stockings that have been designed by Riccardo Tisci. He was additionally chargeable for her pink carpet lewk that evening.

“Riccardo texted me instantly after the present,” the 26-year-old singer mentioned. “He was actually concerned in each element.” In truth, the Burberry Inventive Chief Officer remembers assembly the Spanish star for the primary time.

“I knew from the second I met her that she has a really uncommon, distinctive, and radiating star energy,” he informed the publication. “She has the maturity and craft of somebody properly past her years, and the purity and sensibility of youth. Rosalía is daring in all that she does, from her dancing and motion to her music and costumes. And I like her for that.”

Nonetheless, when she gained the award for Greatest Latin (with J Balvin for his or her track “Con Altura”), Rosalía was met with criticism. Many argued that she should not have been within the MTV VMAs class within the first place, since she’s European and not of Latinx descent/heritage. Whereas the “Malamente” singer did not handle the backlash after the awards ceremony, she touched on the subject earlier this yr.

“If Latin music is music made in Spanish, then my music is a part of Latin music,” she informed Fader again in Could. “However I do know that if I say I am a Latina artist, that is not right, is it? I am a part of a technology that is making music in Spanish. So, I do not know — in that sense, I would desire for others to resolve if I am included in that, no?”

Regardless of every thing, it appears like Rosalía is concentrated on her music greater than ever. “I do not sleep,” she mentioned throughout her W Journal interview. “For the final yr and a half, I do not sleep. I am at all times pondering, working, imagining.” 

You may learn her full interview with the publication on-line. The difficulty hits stands on Oct. eight.