Rosalía: How the genre-bending pop star found her confidence

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🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Anamaria Sayre sits down with Spanish superstar Rosalía, who just earned eight Latin Grammy nominations, to talk about her musical inspirations, divine sensuality and constant pull to transform.

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0:33.2	La Rosalia. that is a rosaliyah that is
0:38.3	a lot of
0:52.3	that is the sound of a true motomami that is the sound of a true motomami the young spanish vocalist and global music sensation
1:01.3	rosalia are guest this week on all latino and anna just what is a motomami oh felix how does one
1:09.6	explain such a vibe? Honestly, I think going into my interview with
1:16.1	Rosalia, I'm not sure I fully knew what a motomami was, but she was giving such Motomami energy in this
1:23.7	interview. I walked away feeling Motomami.
1:28.3	Lucky for you, and maybe me and all of our listeners at home, I think you can feel some of that
1:34.3	energy in our conversation.
1:36.3	She gave me a sense of her Motomami perspective on the world, music, and life.
1:42.2	You know, Rosalia is part of a very short list of musicians from Spain who have
1:46.6	artfully and successfully combined the richness of Spanish music of all kinds with jazz and pop
1:53.4	music from this country, such as one of Rosalia's heroes, the vocalist Martírio, who mixed jazz
1:59.1	and Spanish traditional cancion at the start of the 2000s.
2:03.2	You know, so funny that you mentioned that, Felix,
2:06.0	because in our conversation,
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