Of Maria Pedraza we know that she trained as a dancer before discovering her other great passion and becoming one of the most popular actresses of her generation. He became known in money theftalthough fame came with the first season of Elite. Then he made movies. In the movie crystal girlsShe was even able to combine dance and acting. All it took was a prodigious voice to be what Paquita Salas calls a 360° actress, although in his next fiction project, Urban. life is oursalso had to cover this other discipline.
New Prime Video series produced by Mediaset España tells the story of two friends disappointed with the future they were promised in Madrid and who find themselves in Malaga to immerse themselves in the urban world. Lola and Yanet are the two main protagonists of the series. Yanet (Asia Ortega) is the one who sings, the one who wants to be a superstar; Lola (María Pedraza) comes from a wealthy family and feels misunderstood, but shares her passion for music with Yanet.
Asia Ortega, María Pedraza and Bernardo Flores, stars of Urban. life is ours / Mediaset Spain
This, logically, requires María Pedraza to have certain vocal abilities that we didn’t know she had. And you have, since I was little. This is how the actress herself tells it in LOS40. “I would go to my room and sing karaoke,” he explains. “My parents told me to take care of my voice, but at that time I devoted myself more to dancing and in the end I couldn’t educate my voice.. Then dreams come, like this show, and I have to sing.” And he clarifies, “Although my character doesn’t really sing, he does cockfighting.”
“I was inspired by Sara Socas”
For this Lola that the public will be able to see in Urban. life is ours, María Pedraza has become a benchmark in freestyle competition. A woman with her own name who has taken important steps in this predominantly male universe. “I was inspired by Sara Socas. For me, she is an inspiration, I love it,” she reveals.
María Pedraza built the character based on Sara Socas’ behavior, gestures, and art style. For this whole creative process, he was not able to have an in-depth conversation with the performer, although they spoke and agreed to pay this pending account as soon as possible. “I wrote to him on Instagram, but he couldn’t help me because he was very busy and we had little time for preparations. What he told me is that at some point, if I do another similar thing, he wants to sit down with me to help me,” he explains. “I’ve seen a lot of her videos to play Lola. Sara Socas arrives and breaks it. You see it and at first you don’t expect it to be so strong,” says Pedraza. “I was inspired precisely by that. You don’t expect Lola to do what she does, and all of a sudden, boom.”
Sara Socas in the final of the FMS Freestyle Master Series / Getty Images/Aldara Zarraoa
For the moment we will have to wait until further notice to discover this other talent of María Pedraza. In addition, it is possible that these original songs performed by the main trio, Asía Ortega, Bernardo Flores and Pedraza, will be commercially exploited on the main streaming platforms. Who knows? Maybe in a few months we will go to Spotify to listen to a song by María Pedraza in its most hip-hop version.
What is ‘Urban. Life is ours?
With six 50-minute episodes, ‘Urban. La vida es nuestra’ is a new drama for adults with an urban music backdrop that tells the story of two young women of completely opposite appearances: Lola (María Pedraza), who, having all kinds of luxuries within reach of hand, lives immersed in an abyss of frustrations and an unresolved past; and Yanet (Asia Ortega), who struggles to survive as best she can by pursuing a dream that seems unattainable: to become a music star.
United by fate, Lola and Yanet embark on a journey to Malaga, which for them is an escape from a complicated and terribly unhappy present towards a totally uncertain future. There they meet Patrick (Bernardo Flores), a young man who is about to leave the neighborhood and succeed in urban music. The three protagonists are immersed in a triangle of love, conflict and endless nights where ego, rivalry and pending accounts will mark the events of this new life in which they will have to decide how far they are ready to go to achieve their goals. goals. .
‘Urban. Life is Ours doesn’t have a release date at this time, though the idea is that the fiction will land in the Prime Video catalog at some point this year. It will be then that we can see María Pedraza and the rest of her colleagues in action in this series where music is one of the great protagonists.