Arca

Musician

1989-10-14

Venezuelan musician and record producer known professionally as Arca. She is known for experimental electronic releases and collaborations with artists including Bjork, FKA twigs, and Kanye West. She was born in 1989.

Quotes by Arca

I hoped that being attracted to men might go away, but what I never ever hoped would go away were the feelings of femininity, and of softness and fragility, that could live inside of a boy. They were private, but they were mine.
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When I was about 13, and I would write in my journal, I'd be like, 'I just watched 'Spice World,' the Spice Girls movie, and I loved it.' Sometimes I would sign them with the name Xen.
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Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence's biography on him, 'Hold on to Your Dreams,' one of the things I took away was: first thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.
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I exist in agreement with all the weird chaos, destruction, and agony that is undoubtedly part of the texture of being alive.
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I knew that I would have to leave Venezuela in order to figure out who I was.
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When I was young, I put on performances for my family and my parents where I would dance like a woman, singing a really exaggerated woman's vocal in front of my whole family.
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I've learned to use things like softness and vulnerability as weapons against the things you feel ashamed of in yourself.
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