La mala rodriguez y julieta venegas biography

Buenos ding dong diddly dias. I’ve used ‘Eres Para Mi’ in two previous spotlights for Ana Tijoux and Mala Rodriguez. This time I’m focusing on Julieta Venegas herself. Here’s her solo take

She’s not a bad rapper, as well as singing and playing the accordion. (She also plays the gitarr, piano, cello and violin.)
Born in California in , she was raised in Tijuana and was one of the founder members of Tijuana No! A Mexican Ska/Punk grupp. Which are a little different from her solo releases but she has retained the reggae influence. Her music is a lot mellower than this no. (Venegas comes in at on this)

After Tijuana No! She played with a number of small bands untill when she was signed as a solo artist and released her first album Aqui The lead single De Mis Pasos still had a bit of the punky slag of her early work ( It&#;s basically a &#;I&#;m better off without you&#; song) Which fryst vatten impressive, as the accordion wouldn&#;t be in my list of &#;rock&#; instruments.

The success of

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Things That Matter toLa Mala Rodriguez

To be a successful female rapper is probably one of the hardest things to do in showbiz. To be a successful Latino female rapper is probably ten times as hard. This is precisely what makes La Mala Rodriguez so special and her achievement as the most recognized and internationally successful Spanish rapper in the world, all the more exceptional.

Latinolife: Which artists did you grow up listening to? Who did you most admire growing up?

La Mala Rodriguez: I grew up listening to an eclectic mix Camaron de la Isla, Silvio Rodriguez, Pink Floyd, Pat Metheny, Carlos Puebla, Leonard Cohen, Mercedes Sosa. I also loved to listen to the radio and in Cadiz you are able to pick up stations from the North of Africa and I loved doing that. When I was 12 years old, I started to listen to rap and R&B, especially from the west coast and the south of the US and also sould and old salsa from th 70s. Then later I got into Jazz. I love Miles Davis, Cha

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Born in Jerez de la Frontera (Cadiz, Spain), Maria made her first demo tape at

Two years later, she made her debut as &#;Mala Rodriguez&#; and forever changed the face of Spanish hip-hop with her smash hit “Yo Marco El Minuto”, by becoming the first female to gain scene-dominance in a male-dominated music genre.  

&#;La Mala&#; also won Best Urban Song for her single “No Pidas Perdon” at the  Latin Grammy Awards and has formed part of line-ups that included artists such as Green Day, Jamiroquai, Kanye West, The Killers and Fatboy Slim.

The music video for her single in collaboration with Nelly Furtado, “Bajo Otra Luz”, set a record as the #1 Most Viewed Video Worldwide with million views in its first week.

UPDATE from 30th March, The lyric video of her collaboration with Juan Magán, &#;USTED&#;, has garnered to date over 83 million views in YouTube.

SRM: Mala, born María R