Rosalia

Singer

1993-09-25

Quotes by Rosalia

• When I was 15, 16, I started going to a studio and my biggest inspiration were women, like Lola Flores from Spain or Janis Joplin or Patti Smith.

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• It's a lot more interesting to dig into the popular music from where I'm from than adhere to some kind of standardized global pop.

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• I love flamenco. It's very difficult music to sing. But I think of any genre as a snow globe - you don't admire it for its stillness. You have to shake it up and see how it explodes.

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• Everything is in flamenco. Spirituality, loyalty, humility, valor.

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• I'll always identify with the image of a strong woman. I believe that in what I do and in my sense of self, there's a vindication of women. There's power.

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• Flamenco is the most honest and visceral music. You have to be sincere when you sing it. If you're not, it doesn't work.

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• It is very important that people understand how important flamenco is to the Gypsy community. There have been some amazing Gypsy artists. It's important that we give visibility to that, but at the same time people have to be fair and recognise that Paco de Lucia was the biggest guitar player in this style of music in the world and he wasn't Gypsy.

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• There's a lot of magic in voices. I love voices that are very old, very gravelly, very deep. I like metallic voices; I like velvety voices. The voices of children.

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• When I sang in bars and weddings, where you have to fight to be heard, you gain incredible humility.

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