At 25 years old and with a career driven by social networks, Mexican Paloma Morphy went from singing in her room in front of the screen of her phone to launching an album and filling the Lunario in Mexico City in her first solo concert.
His pop songs, with lyrics that address love, heartbreak, mental health and the passage of time, are combined with danceable beats that are listened to by more than 460 thousand people a month on Spotify.
“I’ve always been a very happy person. So, how could I play a song with very sad lyrics with a violin part? Well, it didn’t suit me so much because, although I was sad, I was always the cheerful one, the one who had the best face, who tried to look for the positive side of things and turned all her tragedies into jokes. That’s me,” Morphy explained to EFE.
Therefore, despite that fun rhythm, he assures that the common thread of his songs “is really how honest they are, the feeling that I talk about. It is clear to me that the people who listen to it feel it as much as I did, because it is 100% real. It’s not made up at all, it doesn’t have any kind of sweetener”.
Three months after the release of her album, Paloma Morphy says that the idea of the album “came about in a very organic way” and that “the songs alone began to generate this concept” that gave rise to ‘Au’.
And although he would recommend all his songs, he explains that ‘(alone)’, is a song that he likes because “although I was afraid, it helped me a lot”, because after a long period of romantic relationships “I was encouraged for the first time, to get rid of that and be alone” .
Each track on that new album reflects his emotions, and his goal is for his music to transcend: “Yesterday I was listening to a Nesquik song that says, ‘I don’t want hits, I want classics.’ And that’s it. I don’t want hits, I want classics.
Although she has “tried to make all my music without any kind of reference”, in the first videos published in the social network TikTok, Paloma Morphy, accompanied by a ukulele, covered Julieta Venegas, Shakira, Natalia Lafourcade or Pablo Alborán, and that pop is still present in her songs.
After jumping from the networks to the stage, performing in small bars, festivals and the Lunario, Paloma now dreams of “filling the Zócalo (…) and touring stadiums around the world”.
He also imagines collaborations with international artists such as Rauw Alejandro, Rosalía, Latin Mafia or Bad Bunny, who, despite their different sonorities, he affirms that, “having so many worlds to explore within music, I want it all”.
Now, after studying law and giving it up to achieve what he has achieved, he sends a message to young people: “Let them take the plunge. They should not be afraid, they already have the ‘no’.
With 25 years and a career ahead of him, his goals are clear: “I want everything, I’m going for everything, as far as I can go. I’m going to keep releasing music. I am a person who, not always, but because I found this, which is my dream, I started to dream big”.
