The pioneer of dancehall in Spain says goodbye to her great year of success with a hedonistic party
Alba Farelo (Vilasar de Mar, Barcelona, 1997) is a good example of how far the new urban scene in Spain can go. In three years, the Barcelona has managed to fill large rooms and make a name for herself in America with her alias Bad Gyal and with a proposal she drinks from the Jamaican dancehall.
After fusing this summer at festivals such as Sónar, he will now offer a show guided by hedonism in Madrid. "I want people to have the feeling of being partying rather than a concert. It's a very dynamic show, where things are always happening: there are dances, my songs and other artists sound that I listen to in privacy," he says in a telephone conversation
Aren't you afraid that someone outside the urban circuit doesn't understand that kind of live? It wouldn't make sense for me to do something else, you can't ask an electronic music DJ to go with a band. That would sound like the ass, unless they are the best musicians in the world and know how to adapt to continuous sound changes during the show . There are still people who criticize stars like Puerto Rican Bad Bunny, when he has one of the best concerts right now, he freaks out. It is a matter of time that we begin to understand what we do. It is important to know where this music comes from. It is generational, right now in Spain I do not think there are many from 27 down who want to go to see a band with guitars. They prefer an urban roll with DJ. Youth is much more positioned in ours, it is what will come, we are the future. Even people like Rosalía, who comes from flamenco and from using a guitar and a drawer, prefer to adapt their music to the current format of an urban show.When I play at a festival there are people a little older who don't understand shit about what I'm doing. Our style still does not have a circuit, so they put us in the sack of the indie.
However, in the great festivals the rock bands continue to send. Of course, because we have had a traditionally rock audience. I have lived it myself, when I play at a festival there are people a little older who do not understand shit about what I am doing. Our style still does not have a circuit, so they put us in the sack of the indie, which is something we have never been, has nothing to do with us. But that is already beginning to change, look what happened this year at Primavera Sound, where there was a part of the poster designed for young people. How is the experience of touring America? It's cool, there is a lot of Latin audiences That begins to know me. When they see me dancing, it impacts them, they are quite dedicated. I've already been to the United States four times, for cities like New York, Los Angeles, Miami and San Francisco. In addition, I have traveled a large part of Latin America, from Argentina to Mexico, Chile, Peru or Guatemala and in 2020 I will go to Colombia.Are you not afraid that, according to Bad Gyal it gets bigger, you will lose control of your career? the one that values if you want to make decisions or delegate. I like that there are more and more people who help me develop my ideas, but that is not why I am going to stop being the one to choose which paths to move forward. My dream for next year is to make a song that bursts it internationally.According to the criteria of
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