Let’s be honest, many of us fell in love with Bad Gyal in 2016 when we first heard the line ‘When I dance to you I know that it drives you crazy’ from Fever. It was step one in his musical career and today, it continues to be a dancehall classic.
If you don’t know her, we will tell you everything you need to know about her.
Bad Gyal’s real name and famous father
Alba Farelo i Solé -her real name- was born in Vilassar de Mar (Barcelona) in 1997 before dedicating herself to music, she spent time working in a bakery in her town and began studying Fashion Design, which she left shortly after. She is the youngest of five siblings (Paula, Bruno and the twins Greta and Irma) and her father is Eduard Farelo, an actor and Catalan dubbing of celebrities such as Colin Firth.
It wasn’t easy for him because his parents didn’t understand the musical style he wanted to follow, which was rare a few years ago in Spain. “I have gone through this alone, no one has helped me, neither my colleagues from the town nor my parents, no one understood my move,” she revealed in an interview.
Bad Gyal
The situation has changed and his father is his biggest fan. In fact, he criticizes those who think that he has gotten where he is thanks to him: “The only thing that bothers me is that some media use the word nepobaby to talk about Alba. How can you think that I, a poor actor of this little country, have I lent a hand to get a major record company to sign with her? It’s absurd!”
Collaborations with Karol G and Rauw Alejandro
As a precarious young woman and music enthusiast, she began uploading videos to YouTube and in 2016 she became known by covering Rihanna’s Work as Pai. Shortly after she left Mercadona and at the end Fiebre. Young people were enthusiastic about Bad Gyal’s innovative urban style and it was gaining relevance in Spain.
In 2018 he released Worldwide Angel, his second EP with songs as popular as Internationally, Candela or Tu moto. Today, Bad Gyal is a true star in the US, Japan, Germany and much of Latin America and has won 19 Platinum albums and five Gold albums. As if that were not enough, he has collaborated with stars such as Omar Montes, Anitta , Karol G, Rauw Alejandro, Quevedo or Tokischa.
And Bizarrap himself has set his eyes on her and wants her for a session. In February, the Catalan woman told it, saying that she had called her, but they had not done anything “because it was not that easy” and she made it clear that “it’s up to each person when it’s their turn.”
His defense of ‘sexualization’ in his videos
The 26-year-old singer has been criticized on many occasions for showing her body too much in her videos, something with which she herself agrees: “I have put myself in that place and people are going to give their opinion, but I can’t stand it.” They tell me all the time what I have to do with him,” he noted in 2022 for El País.
Furthermore, most of these messages she receives are to tell her to have surgery: “I’m very thin, I need to have my boobs done. Leave me alone! As if I want to gain weight: you’re going to swallow me with 10 extra kilos.” shaking my ass in your face.”
Bad Gyal’s relationship with joints
If something characterizes Bad Gyal, it is his complicated relationship with drugs. From the beginning, she defended the consumption of marijuana and she spoke clearly that she did it because it helped her create new music. In 2018, she expressed this about joints to Vanity Fair.
“Marijuana is my daily life. I use it to create and make music. I smoke every day, I don’t bother anyone. I understand that there are groups that don’t agree with it, I know people who have ended up very badly. I have a very different from chemical drugs, I don’t like them and I don’t use them,” he said.
In fact, in 2019 a message that they had sent her where they offered her cocaine went viral and she published it on Instagram to show that she hates that: “Coca is ugly, thank you.”
Her years of smoking joints are long gone and she now wants to lead a healthier life. In mid-November of this year, she confessed in a podcast that she had been without marijuana for a month: “I was trying to be healthier. I realized that I needed it to sleep, I needed two or three joints, I woke up still smoked… Before, when I started training and started going to the gym, I had to take a little to go to the gym. Then I saw that I was getting dizzy… I stopped smoking in the morning, I came back from training and I smoked after training, too. It made me dizzy… In the end you notice that it is a substance that prevents you from doing things as you evolve in your life.”
She even clarified that she was “more and more boring”: “I feel more and more like a grandmother, focused on training, eating clean, going to bed early, I like going out less and less. I think that the image I often give does not correspond so much to who I really am.
Who is Jorge Rodes, Bad Gyal’s boyfriend
Bad Gyal’s personal life is an enigma, he does not talk about anything related to it. Since May, she has been linked to the model Jorge Rodes due to a story they uploaded and in which they went out together and in a very affectionate attitude.
Not much is known about him. He is professionally dedicated to modeling at the Uno Model agency and does not use social networks too much.
The controversy for refusing to twerk with Rauw Alejandro
At the end of December of this year, Bad Gyal made all the headlines after attending Rauw Alejandro’s concert to sing with him and refusing to twerk with him. The one from Barcelona, bluntly, made it very clear to him that what he had gone for was to sing.
In a subsequent statement, she assured that she did not dance with the artist to avoid speculation about a romance with Rauw and stressed that she was treated “luxury” at all times.
“Twerking with someone doesn’t seem like anything out of this world to me, but I precisely wanted to avoid getting too close to Rauw because I know what certain press and certain people are like on social networks,” he said on his networks.
“I know that surely I would have been related to him in a different way when we are just friends and co-workers and I also know that unnecessary controversy would have been generated,” he added, justifying his rejection of the Puerto Rican artist.
Bad Gyal’s attack on Rauw Alejandro by refusing to fool around with him in the middle of the concert
