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Rozalén | |
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| Birth name | María de los Ángeles Rozalén Ortuño |
| Born | June 12, 1986 |
| Origin | Letur, Albacete, Spain |
| Genres | songwriting, pop, rock, folk |
| Occupation(s) | Song-writer, composer, singer, vocalist and guitarrist. |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar, mandoline |
| Years active | 2012–present |
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María de los Ángeles Rozalén Ortuño (Letur, Albacete, Spain, June 12 of 1986), artistically known as Rozalén, is a spanish singer-songwriter and composer. To this day, she has three edited works under the tittle Con derecho a..., Quién me ha visto... y Cuando el río suena...
She is an importat social activist who defends the rights of minorities and the most marginalised communities through her music.
Biography[edit]
She grew in Letur, a little village in 'Sierra del Segura', the town of her mother. However, her father comes from another village, Balazote. Since she was a child, Maria Rozalén sang the songs which her mother and her grandmother sang to her, she recited poetry and she attended dancing classes. Since she was 7, she belonged to a 'rondalla' (a tipically spanish group of serenaders) in the neighbourhood of Fátima of Albacete. She belonged to it as guitar and mandolin instrumentalist for 9 years, her first steps in music. Her first vocal activity was in the choir of th school 'Colegio Santo Ángel de la Guarda' and the church 'Iglesia de Fátima' in Albacete.
She started to write her own music and lyrics when she was 14, when her main motivation was the social criticism and, at the age of 16, she gave her first concert as singer-songwriter in the festival "Operación Bocata" of Albacete. Since then, her artistic career as singer-songwriter hasn't stopped. She performs usually with her great friend Tete Moragón and great percusionist such as the bass player Jorge Rodríguez and the boz player "El Cometilla", an artistic name. Nowadays, she also performs with the guitarrist Samuel Vidal. They perform in numerous localities along Spain.
She is always willing to perform because of benefic or events or like-minded ideologies. Rozalén was interviewed in many occasions and she performed numerous times in some local and regional televisions as well as in some radio stations. She had the privilege of performing in scenaries such as the 'Teatro Romea' and the 'Auditorio Víctor Villegas' in Murcia (two scenaries well-konwn in Spain and two of the most important in Spain) and the 'Teatro Circo' in Albacete (an historical theater declared '[Bien de Interés Cultural]', a category of the heritage register in Spain).
Rozalén studied Psychology in the University of Murcia and she got a master in Music Therapy[1]. In addition, she is experienced in Music Therapy for people who suffer from Parkinson and groups at risk of social exclusion. She is accompanied in all her concerts by Beatriz Romero (a specialised technician in interpreting sing language and interpreting blind and deaf people). Thus, they have created a show that has a lot of success in all the places where it is played. In the show, there is a mixture of both, hearing and deaf people, and it is prepared to be undestood in other countries through the use of the specific sign language connotations of each country. One example of this great work can be reflected in the music video of her single 80 veces[2].
She has worked with NGOs and associations such us Plan Internacional[3], Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer or Fundación Vicente Ferrer[4].
Career[edit]
2013: First record and the beginning of her success[edit]
After several years performing in small halls in la Mancha, in 2012 Rozalén left Albacete and she settled in the neightbourhood of Lavapiés, in Madrid. Once there, she sign up for a master in Music Therapy and met the producer Ismael Guijarro. Rozalén presented 30 of her compositions to Ismael who suggested her to record an album. Thanks to the producer's help and to a bank loan, Rozalén signed for Sony Music global music company and she became part of the most important Spanish talent agencies RLM (in which artists such as Malú, Alejandro Sanz, Miguel Bosé or Rapahel take part in) and in 2013 she published Con derecho a... her first studio album[5].
The song 80 veces became the first single of the album. For this song she recorded an orginal videoclip with Beatriz Romero that would triumph on YouTube with more that one million visits days after its publication. The second single of thealbul was Comiéndote a besos, a song dedicated to people in serostatus stage that overcame the overwhelming succes of 80 veces.
In September 2013 she began the tour promoting her first album. Rozalén achieved a great success and the tickets were all sold in almost all her concerts around the main theaters and halls of Spain. This success lead the composer from la Mancha to cross the pond and take her music to countries such as Argentina or Uruguay. At the end of the year she was awarded in the Dial Awards as one of the Spanish artists of the year.
In December 2014 Rozalén obtained her first Gold Record after exceeding 20,000 copies sold with her debut album Con derecho a. In addition, she won the Los Números 1 de Cadena 100 award, given by a radio station called Cadena 100 to the Spanish artists with the best songs of the year.
2015: First BSO and second album[edit]
At the beginning of 2015 Rozalén was chosen to give voice to the soundtrack of Perdiendo el Norte, a film by Nacho G, Velilla. The singer composed the song Berlín, which is included in her second studio album[6].
On 29 June 2015 Vuelves, which was the first single of Rozalén's second studio album, was released. The second single, titled Ahora, was released in September. A week later the album went on sale, which quickly reached number 1 on the sales charts [7]. Será mejor, the album's third single, was released on February 26, 2016.
Discography[edit]
Studio Albums[edit]
| Album | Singles | Certification | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| • Con derecho a... (2013) |
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1x Platinum Album | 40 000 |
| • Quién me ha visto... (2015) |
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1x Gold Album | 20 000 |
| • Cuando el río suena... (2017) |
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1x Platinum Album | 40 000 |
Singles[edit]
- '80 veces' (2013)
- 'Comiéndote a besos' (2013)
- 'Saltan chispas' (2014)
- 'Vuelves' (2015)
- 'Ahora' (2015)
- 'Será mejor' (2016)
- 'Girasoles' (2017)
- 'La puerta violeta (2017)
- 'Antes de verte' (2018)
Soundtracks and other singles[edit]
- 'Mi querida España' (with Kiko Veneno) (2015) (BSO Perdiendo el norte)
- 'Berlín' (2015) (BSO Perdiendo el norte)
- 'Asuntos pendientes' (with Abel Pintos) (2016)
- 'Y, ¿si fuera ella?' (with Alejandro Sanz) (2017)
- 'Estoy contigo' (with La Oreja de Van Gogh) (2017)
- 'Mirando al cielo' (with Huecco) (2018)
- '¿A quién le importa?' (2018)
- 'Mi caballito de mar' (with Fran Perea) (2018)
- 'Danza de gardenias' (with Natalia Lafourcade) (2018) Book
- 'Cerrando puntos suspensivos' (2018)
Awards and nominations[edit]
Rozalén has won a large number of awards and she has got several nominations during her musical career. She has obtained important honors such as two Records, Album of The Year by Apple Music[8] and the Placa al al Mérito Regional de la Comunidad de Castilla-La Mancha (a recognition of the community of Castilla La Mancha granted the day of the community to companies, artists, associations...)
- 2005: semifinalist of CreaJoven (Murcia).
- 2007: Winner of the first contest of music for young people of the Gineta.
- 2007: Second award of CreaJoven (Murcia).
- 2008: Winner of CreaJoven (Murcia).
- 2009: She was selected for taking part in the European Biennial and Mediterranean countries together with hundred of young creators in Skopje (Macedonia).
- 2009: Second award in the contest BudTropic against the discrimination of HIV (Murcia).
- 2010: Winner of the contest Jóvenes Artistas of Castilla La Mancha in the category of "other music styles".
- 2011-2012: She was selected for taking part in the International Singers and Songwriters Festival This Is Me in Lithuania.
- 2014: Winner of the Premio Los Números 1 of Cadena 100.
- 2014:Winner of the Premio Dial of Cadena Dial.
- 2018: Nomination for the Latin Grammy in the categories Best Album of the Year and Song of the Yeary for "La puerta violeta".
Collaborations[edit]
Throughout her career, Rozalén has collaborated with several artists, for instance: ToteKing ("Gente Tóxica", in the album Lebron), El Kanka ("Me arrepiento", in the album Quién me ha visto y quién me ve) ("Volar", in the album El día de la suerte de Juan Gómez), Rayden (MC) ("Tres otoños", in the album En alma y hueso), Funambulista (band) ("Eres aire", in the album Dual), Marwan ("Las cosas que no pude responder", in the album Las cosas que no pude responder) , Luis Ramiro, Nacho González, Luis Eduardo Aute ("Belleza", del disco Quién me ha visto y quién me ve), Celtas Cortos ("Hora de aventuras", del disco Contratiempos), Pedro Guerra ("Sirva de Precedente", del disco 14 de Ciento Volando de 14), Juan Perro, Quique González, Miguel Bosé, Victor Manuel ("Luna", in the concert 50 años no son nada), Juanito Valderrama ("Más de 80 veces"), Fredi Leis ("Un sábado más") ("Estrellas fugaces"), Antílopez ("Musa en paro busca poeta", in the album Desprendimiento de rutina), La Pulquería, Malú ("Ni un segundo", in the concert Madrid TourCaos), Vanesa Martín ("Noches de boda"), Bebe ("Siempre me quedará", in the concert Circo Price in Madrid) ("Buscome", in the concert La Sala La Riviera), Abel Pintos ("Asuntos pendientes", in the album Quién me ha visto y quién me ve), Las Migas ("La noche"), Kevin Johansen ("Desde que te perdí"), Rayden ("Tres otoños", in the album En alma y hueso), Pedro Pastor ("Prometí volver", in the album La vida plena), Mr. Kilombo ("Sinmigo"), Muerdo ("Lejos de la ciudad", in the album Viento sur)... In addition to this, the singer has also worked with poets David Sarrión y Ricardo Pérez.
Book[edit]
- Cerrando puntos suspensivos (2018), a book published only in Spanish in which through prose and poetry, Rozalén explains the reader her feelings in the last years.
References[edit]
- ^ "La albaceteña María Rozalén arrasa con su canción «80 veces»". abc (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2018-10-21.
- ^ "La albaceteña María Rozalén arrasa con su canción «80 veces»". abc (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2018-10-21.
- ^ "Embajadores". Plan Spain (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-10-21.
- ^ "Noticias | Fundación Vicente Ferrer". www.fundacionvicenteferrer.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-10-21.
- ^ Pantaleoni, Ana (2013-04-30). "Atención a María Rozalén". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
- ^ "Rozalén lanza hoy en plataformas digitales "Berlín", tema incluido en su próximo álbum | Rozalén". www.rozalen.org (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2018-10-21.
- ^ "Rozalén, número 1 en listas de ventas con su álbum 'Quién Me ha Visto' - RLM". 2017-03-12. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
- ^ País, El (2015-12-10). "Periscope es la mejor 'app' del año, según Apple". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
External links[edit]
- María Rozalén: del conservatorio al disco más vendido El País 2015