Sílvia Pérez Cruz, National Prize for Current Music 2022

• Sílvia Pérez Cruz, in Once Varas "I don't want to get anywhere, I want to be there"

The jury of the National Prize for Current Music 2022 organized by the Ministry of Culture and Sports has chosen the Catalan singer Sílvia Pérez Cruz as the winner of the award, endowed with 30,000 euros.

The ruling has highlighted "

", as well as "the naturalness, versatility and audacity of her proposals" and "her unwavering commitment to beauty".

Sílvia Pérez Cruz was born in Palafrugell, Girona, in 1983, trained in music theory, orchestral music, flamenco, popular music from Latin America and

(ESMUC).

In those early years, she was co-founder and singer of the group Las Migas and sang with guitarist Toti Soler.

Her debut as a composer and soloist was

(Universal, 2012), an album that received a gold record;

just like Granada (Universal 2014), published

.

In 2017 she published

(Universal Music), an album made in dialogue with the compositions of his parents, Glòria Cruz and Càstor Pérez and created after five years of touring with a string quintet.

In 2019 he recorded in Tokyo

(Blue Note Tokyo)

And in 2020 he released his latest album to date,

Silvia Pérez Cruz's career is projected on other artistic disciplines:

... She has collaborated with artists such as Gino Paoli, Stefano Bollani, Lluís Homar, Rocío Molina, Jorge Drexler, Hamilton de Holanda, Toquinho, Natalia Lafourcade, Lila Downs, Liniker, Javier Colina, Joan Manuel Serrat and Lluís Llach, among others, and has sung with the Spanish National Orchestra, conducted by Josep Pons.

She has worked throughout her career in various theater productions, directed by Joan Ollé and Julio Manrique, and also composed the music for two productions by Lluís Homar.

In the field of dance, she highlights the

2018) of the production

(Max 2019 Award for best musical composition and best dance show) with the dancer and choreographer Rocío Molina.

In the cinema, Pérez Cruz put the music of the film

, by Pablo Berger, winner of 10 goyas in 2013, among them, the best original song.

In 2015 she composed and recorded the soundtrack for

, by Eduard Cortés,

which he also starred.

The general director of the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM),

.

The vice president was the deputy director general of Music and Dance, Antonio Garde, and the members were Tomás Fernando Flores, director of Radio 3;

Almudena Heredero, director of Primavera Sound Madrid;

Jordi Herreruela, director of the Cruïlla festival;

Paula Quintana, director and presenter of the program Captain Demo on Radio 3;

the musician and National Prize for Current Music in 2017, Javier Ruibal and Carmen Zapata Corbalán, president of the Association of Women in the Music Industry.

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