Who is Rita Payés?: Singer and mother with a career who at 25 years old has already toured with C. Tangana and collaborated with Jon Batiste

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He is only 25 years old, but he already has six studio albums, a couple of them with his mother, the classical guitarist Elisabeth Roma. And his thing is not the urban scene, not even pop. His base is based on jazz and bossa nova and in addition to singing, he plays the trombone. We talk about Rita Payés, one of the guests of this Wednesday's La Revuelta.

Being the daughter of musicians helped her find her vocation and, although with their help, she has been carving her own path until reaching other artists such as C. Tangana, Silvia Perez Cruz, Silvana Estrada either Jon Batiste with whom he has managed to collaborate.

He took his first steps in the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, the nucleus from which some of the most promising young musicians of our jazz scene have emerged, such as Andrea Motis, Elia Bastida either Magalí Datzira. Furthermore, he debuted with Joan Chamorrohis mentor.

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A round year

2024 has been a great year for her both personally and professionally. She became a mother for the second time a few months ago, but that has not stopped her career, quite the opposite, because also this year she released an album that has been very well received, On the way to the road.

What to be mother of two children, 24 years old It is not common either, but she enjoys it and does not hesitate to create lullabies for all those mothers who sometimes wish they were sung to them.

Performing at the 2022 Goya gala with C. Tangana gave her a showcase and visibility that spread on networks where we can see that she has more than 120,000 followers on Instagram, something unusual for a trombonist. But we cannot forget that sells out his concerts in Europe and Latin America. He accompanied Tangana on her tour Without Singing or Tuning Tour.

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His latest work was released last July, and It was accompanied by a cover created by the artist Barbora Barbar Kysilkova: “I imagine this image as being inside a story. And that's the album. Songs like stories, each one from his father and mother. With its beginning and its end. With that ending that puts you at the beginning of the next.”

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Although at first older people went to see it, they have recently realized that There are more and more young people who are betting on sounds outside the mainstream and who listen to his compositions.

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