A year more, since LOS40 we are once again fully involved in highlighting and making visible the figure of women in music in 8M; his talent and his fight to achieve true equality in an industry as disrupted as the music industry.
For this reason, in addition to sharing the voices of six performers who know what it is like to work in this world from their different experiences, collecting feminist slogans and phrases to claim our rights on this important date, to report on the events taking place throughout and breadth of our geography, as We have created a playlist with female talent that is bursting onto the current scene and in Spanish.
Artists from Spain and much of the South American continent, such as Argentina, Colombia, Chile and Mexico, set the musical accent on International Women’s Day:
On the one hand…
From Spain, there are authentic national pop stars. Rosalia, Ana Mena, Lola Indigo, Aitana oh the end coexist with the successes of proper names such as Natalia Lacunza, Samurai, Ptazeta, Paula Cendejas, Sofía Ellar, Rigoberta Bandini, Vicco, Belén Aguilera oh gin.
The discovery mode shows us artists like the Madrid rockers she goeswho join Zahara to take up one of his most powerful hits, or to Irene Arrospidesays Ire, who in this case makes a duet with Yarea Guillen.
Other figures that represent other areas of the national geography in our selection would be the electric singer-songwriter Carmen Boza of La Línea de la Concepción, the Murcian Hoonine in the tone of electro-pop, or the rocker of Alcarreña Eva Ryjlen. The songs of the electronic duo could not be missing from our selection Door and his vindictive project titanium, or the theme Women, yeah!in which actress Alba Messa brought together more than a dozen women to sing in unison “We are the force that moves the world, we are the center of the hurricane, it is our body, our ideas , we are the owners of this identity”.
…on the other side of the Atlantic
Mexico, in addition to contributing to the already popular Ximena Sariñana, Danna Paola, Carla Morrison, Julieta Venegas or Sofía Reyes, discover us for RENEEone of the revelations of the moment in Latin pop thanks to its success Never sad (I’m worth mom) or young people Ivanawho started his career in the pandemic and reached million-dollar streaming figures in a matter of months with his intimate songs.
From Argentina we have the well known Nathy Peluso, María Becerra, Cazzu, TINI, Emilia, Lali oh Nicki Nicolebut we focus on voices like that of Daniela Spalla, Originally from Córdoba and with a background in jazz, or her compatriot Zoe Gotussowinner of the 2021 Gardel Prize for Best Pop Artist Album for my first sad day.
And from the same southern cone, in Chile, we find already contrasting voices like Francisca Valenzuela, Cami oh My Laferte, but we also listen to the combo of Denise Rosenthal, SOULFIA, Shirel and KYAcon Lanterns: “Today the ‘women’ are not alone, we are here together, they always teach us to be competitive and we cannot allow it, if we are united we are the strength, that is part of the essence of our heritage”.
Straight from Colombia we get the great songs of Karol G, Shakira, Greeicy, the singer-songwriter Elsa and Elmar and bogotana Julienne, who won the Latin Grammy for Best New Artist in 2021.
Listen to our Latin Queens playlist on major aggregators and digital platforms or on the official LOS40 app!