Bad Gyal won the MTV network’s Europe Music Award (EMA) this Sunday for “Best Spanish Artist”, a popular vote award in which he won rosaliaamong other major candidates.
Notably, the Catalan artist has prevailed as the winner in a strong list of candidates completed by the aforementioned author of motomamiby Fito & Fitipaldis, by Quevedo (co-interpreter of the hit to remainwho recently reached number 1 worldwide on Spotify) and by Dani Fernández, who has just received the Ondas award for musical phenomenon of the year and the Los40 award for “best artist”.
Real name Alba Farelo (Vilasar del Mar, Barcelona, 1997), this performer and composer abandoned her job as a baker and studied Fashion Design to start a musical career as Bad Gyal (which in Caribbean slang means “bad girl”). .
Transformed into one of the ambassadors of the “dancehall” style in Spain, which mixes with trap and reggaeton, she thus went from being “the rare” who listened to music without much prestige in Spain to put herself at the center of the hurricane since 2016 with topics like PopeCatalan version of Opera by Rihanna and Drake.
His popularity began to grow thanks to albums such as Slow wine (2016) and above all World Angel (2018), which have been followed up more recently by the EP heating (2021) and the mixtape Audio system – the final versions (2021).
With hits like Flow 2000, crazy, Fox, Blin Blin or New York Total*Bad Gyal has created a personal brand by using provocative lyrics to reverse the machismo and misogyny present in urban music and transform sex into a form of female empowerment.
Rosalia, defeated
With five nominations, Rosalía looked to reconfirm her status as an international star this Sunday at the MTV Europe Music Awards (EMA) in front of lead nominee, Harry Styles, at a gala that included performances by Muse and David Guettaamong others.
It all happened on the banks of the Rhine in the majestic capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf (Germany), a city where the astronaut who serves as an effigy for these popular music awards had never set foot, but which has already demonstrated the his creditworthiness in these kinds of events more than a decade ago, when he hosted the Eurovision 2011 festivities.
Two precisely the MTV awards, those awarded to the best Latin video and the best choreography for with height In the branch of these awards held in the United States, the Video Music Awards (VMAs) were the ones that only three years ago began to crystallize Rosalía’s true reach in the global imagination following the launch of ill will (2018).
Since then, the Spanish woman hasn’t fared badly at this chain’s galas, at least at those staged across the Atlantic, where she racks up a total of fours, including Best Collaboration with Billie Eilish at the 2021 VMAs and Best video editing of saoko at the VMAs last August.
His presence at the event was not expected, nor that of the rest of the main candidates for king of the night, see the aforementioned Harry Styles (with 7 nominations), but he was Taylor Swift (with six) and Nicki Minaj (with five).
Spanish-speaking representation among the candidates didn’t stop at Rosalía, as the naughty Puerto Rican bunny was able to catch up with I’m doing well together with Chencho Corleone the EMA for the best collaboration of the year, the same of his compatriot Rauw Alejandro and the Colombian Shakira with Congratulations.
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Source: Clarin
