A week of new music in all genres: the new single from Spanish Rosalía’s album ‘LUX’, Thalía’s cumbia version of a 70’s disco hit and a duet by Maluma with the late Yeison Jiménez stand out in the weekly Spanish-language music releases.
Other highlights include the collaboration of top bachata artists Romeo Santos and Prince Royce, and Mexican singers such as Kenia Os, a young pop icon, and Joss Favela, an emblem of the regional Mexican genre.
Rosalía, between luxury and divinity
The Catalan Rosalía released the video for ‘Sauvignon blanc’, the third single from her album ‘LUX’, in which she appears lying in a desert with an aesthetic defined by critics as ‘retro-glam’ and ‘chic’, while singing about personal fulfillment, attainable only through divinity and not material luxuries.
Thalia reinterprets ABBA in new music
The Mexican Thalia reinterprets with cumbia and ‘Spanglish’ the ABBA hit ‘Dancing queen’, which celebrates 50 years of its release, so the Latin singer paid tribute to the song, which “represents that world where all are queens,” according to her.
Maluma sings with a deceased friend
Colombian Maluma premiered ‘Con el corazón’, an unreleased song he recorded with his compatriot Yeison Jimenez before his death last January 10 while he was on a small plane to Medellin. The 32-year-old artist confessed that the death of his friend “changed his mentality a lot” and “has invited him to live in the present”.
Bachata royalty joins forces
Romeo Santos and Prince Royce, known as the ‘king’ and ‘prince’ of bachata, join forces on ‘Dardos’, the third single and most played track from their collaborative album ‘Better Late Than Ever’, featuring astrological references and a fusion of their signature genre with R&B, Afrobeat, tropical rhythms and symphonic arrangements.
The modern Mexican pop of Kenya Os
Kenia Os, Mexico’s youth star, presents ‘TÚ Y YO X SIEMPRE’, a song written by Carla Morrison with modern pop and lyrics about “promises, complicity and authentic emotions”. It is the third single from her upcoming album ‘K de Karma’, which she will release in full on March 19 at Mexico’s Palacio de los Deportes.
Regional Mexican singer-songwriters unite to release new music
Joss Favela and Tombochio, regional Mexican singer-songwriters, “unite their voices and pens” in ‘Nada Más’, reported Agencia EFE, a song that mixes norteño music with the sounds of the tumbados, which speaks of a declaration of love and an invitation to a person who is reluctant to let go of all control and surrender fully to love.
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