Argentine singer Emilia arrives with “La chain” in Mexico

MEXICO CITY (AP) — On her first solo visit to Mexico, offering an intimate concert, urban pop singer Emilia talked about her latest single “La chain” and her debut album “Tú crees en mí? ”.

“I am very, very happy to be here, really, I am very happy,” said the Argentine in a video call interview from Mexico City. “The fans are the best.”

Emilia had her first approach to music as a child thanks to a guitar given to her by her grandfather, who is a musician and plays tangos and folklore. In fact, at the beginning she Emilia she interpreted those genres.

“I always liked everything that was art, I always liked to dance, I always liked to sing and music was always closely linked to my life, I can say that I have loved music for as long as I can remember,” he said.

However, trying to please his parents, he enrolled in college to study letters.

“I did not want to disappoint my parents in the decision of a future,” he said. “I knew that they wanted to leave me a title so that I could survive, basically, it was something that they had not been able to have at the time.”

But he soon realized that literature was not something he liked to do professionally. “He was a little far from my happiness and what was good for me,” he said.

He was about to study music when he met a producer and joined the Uruguayan-Argentine band Rombai in which he played pop and dance rhythms such as cumbia.

He made the leap to the urban genre when he began his solo stage, although his base is pop and it is a genre that comes to the fore in the songs he composes and performs.

“It was a lot of uncertainty for me to choose what I wanted to do, I was finding myself, to this day I continue to find myself as an artist and looking for what inspires me,” he said.

His first success was “Recalienta” in 2019 and later songs like “Billion”, “Policía” and “Rápidoltlent” with Tiago PZK.

This week she released “La chain”, a Spanglish song with a sample of Destiny’s Child’s “Independent Women, Pt. 1” composed by Emilia and FMK. The video for the song, filmed in Barcelona and directed by Facundo Ballve, presents Emilia in a luxurious room where she wins a valuable chain from a mobster playing cards.

“It was an incredible song… It’s an anthem for me and for the woman who empowers us,” he said. “When I listen to the artists I admire, they always transmit a message of security and self-confidence to me, that I would also like to transmit to the people who listen to me”.

Emilia, 25, was born in Nogoyá, in the province of Entre Ríos. She has also served as an actress on the Disney+ series “Intertwined” and as a model. In May she released her debut album “Do you believe in me?”.

“I feel that many genres can be found and I feel that in all those genres I can identify myself, I am each one of those songs that are there,” he said about his album. “I am the part that is vulnerable and sensitive, I am the Emilia that is perreadora… I am ‘Latin Girl’, I am all that”.

Emilia belongs to a generation of Argentine female artists making their mark on pop and urban music, including Tini, Lali, Cazzu, Nathy Peluso, Nicki Nicole and María Becerra.

“It’s beautiful because we accompany and support each other, I am very happy with the successes of my colleagues and see that as women we are recognized everywhere,” she said, although she acknowledged that “being a woman, the industry is a little more difficult for us, the fact that people compare us or want to belittle us all the time is not easy at all”.

This wave of Argentine artists resonates with the feminism that has gained strength in the country in recent years with the approval of laws for the legal interruption of pregnancy and projects to protect women from digital violence.

“There is a constant struggle and Argentina taught me a lot with the feminist movement,” Emilia said. “Our voice is important when it comes to giving these messages, which are responsible messages, and understanding that we are seeking equality that is still far away.”

In September, Emilia will perform on two sold-out dates at the Movistar Arena in Buenos Aires and will continue her tour of the cities of Paraná and Mendoza, in the interior of her country. “We are preparing a very nice show, a very nice experience for all the people who follow me,” she said.

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Argentine singer Emilia arrives with “La chain” in Mexico