Going to listen to the music of Rozalén, Spanish singer-songwriter and composer who won the Goya, is to enter a world of lyrics full of feeling for wanting to move forward. Songs that can not only be heard but also seen.
Mexico City, March 14 (However).– The renowned Spanish singer and songwriter Rozalén is back in Mexico anticipating the celebration of the 10 years from the start of your project and to continue bringing his music above all to the ears and eyes of those who most need to shelter from it.
With four albums supporting her career, María Rozalén has dedicated many of her songs to women, to the pressure that is exerted socially to preserve an eternal “beauty” against time, to self-love and to the inner search of each one.
“I am a singer-songwriter, I talk about what I live and what I feel, since I am a woman I end up talking about that, about the things that worry me, about the things that I feel, that I observe and in the end, since we are all the same thing, well, many women are identified. I come from psychology, I studied social psychology and that is why I am so interested in doing what I did, for example with ‘Vivir’, the song for women with breast cancer, I did it together with them, I went to therapy with them and through of some letters they wrote to me, because I tried to put my skin on them and tell their situation2, explains the singer in an interview with However.
“In a world in which we have normally heard so many songs from male composers, now there are more and more songs that speak from the perspective of women and that is always positive for oysters and for them,” she adds.
INCLUSIVE MUSIC
The composer born in Albacete graduated with a master’s degree in music therapy and has tried over the years to focus much of her music on minorities, which is why, in addition to dedicating lyrics to them, her videos and presentations are always accompanied by Beatriz Romero , a great friend of hers and a technical specialist in interpreting sign language.
“Meeting Beatriz was a gift of life and I think it is also important that if we talk about inclusion, if we talk about equality, if we talk about so many things, then we have to try to carry them out as much as possible and I I was lucky enough to meet Bea who does a beautiful sign language in Spanish and who stars with me in the show, which is also very special, the interpreters are always in a corner and she is the protagonist, she is an essential part of the show”.
In fact, one of the Rozalén videos that has broken the most borders and has become one of the most viewed with more than 23 million views has been “80 Veces”, a heartbreak song that has Bea performing each of the songs. singer’s words
Rozalén reflects on just how inclusive the music that surrounds us is in our present and is convinced that there is a lack of more spaces that make an effort to open up to other audiences:
“I think it is very necessary that we get used to seeing an interpreter in all areas, not only because of the service it offers to deaf people, but also to hearing people, it tells us that our reality is not the only one. There are other realities and we must, as far as possible, try to make it easier for everyone in the world to have a place”.
The winner of the Goya in 2021 for Best Original Song for “Que no, que no” together with Sonora Santanera that she performed for the film Rose’s Wedding and nominated for two Grammy Awards, she talks about the power of music, how her very personal lyrics have become something that other people have adopted and coined from their own experience.
“The magic of music, culture and art in general is that, making the speech of the other your own, that is magical and beautiful. I think that one of the nice things that they can say to me is ‘thank you because you have put words to something that I did not know how to say or that I did not find a way to say it’, that is why I feel so privileged to be able to dedicate myself to this, sing stories, because sometimes we are like a channel of information and what we write ceases to be ours”.
THE ROAD AND MEXICO
Rozalén arrived in our country these days to accompany Esteman in his concert at the Metropolitan Theater and with him adds a new name to his list of collaborations where Alejandro Sanz, Carlos Sadness, Kevin Johansen, Alex Ubago and David Bisbal are around.
The career of this singer also hosts four studio albums: “With right d…” (2013), “Who has seen me…” (2015), “When the river sounds…” (2017), and “The tree and the forest” (2020), each composed of his own lyrics and today he also pauses and meditates on the path he has traveled in these almost 10 years full of music.
“In the beginning I made the songs for myself because that is the first necessity, I make songs because it is my way of surviving, writing is what heals me, it is my escape route. Writing, singing and playing instruments is what heals me, what happens is that my first therapy can later be sung by the others and then not only for me but for the rest”.
“Life and signs have brought me to the stage but I was purely singing for myself and for my emotional survival.”
This month of March is one of the busiest for the also activist where she will tour countries in America such as Ecuador and Costa Rica. In Mexico to make her her first contact after a long time to project the concert that she will give on October 6 at the Metropolitan Theater.
“I am that I do not believe it and it scares me too. I am with all the emotions together and it is really going to be that, to fulfill the only ambitious dream that I have had so far, which has been that, to bring the whole team from this side of the pond”.
Rozalén describes Mexico as a place where she feels at home and sees this upcoming concert as the beginning of something big.
It’s going to make me celebrate 10 too beautiful years in my life, doing it in a country where I feel so much at home with an already big family that inspires us so much to make songs, because this album has a thousand lines to Mexico, and I don’t know , I also feel like the beginning of something. It’s been 10 years but I hope they are full of allergies and learning”.
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