{"id":5143,"date":"2026-04-15T08:18:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/5143\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:18:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:18:32","slug":"rosalia-caps-journey-from-student-to-star-with-barcelona-concerts-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/5143\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosalia caps journey from student to star with Barcelona concerts | National"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spanish singer Rosalia spent her early years training in classrooms, rehearsal spaces and small venues across Barcelona as she developed the voice and style that would define her career.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She has now returned to the city where she honed her craft as a global star with her “Lux” tour.<\/p>\n

“Barcelona, I love you madly,” she said in Catalan on Monday night, opening the first of four sold-out shows at Barcelona\u2019s Palau Sant Jordi arena.<\/p>\n

The concerts are part of the rollout of her fourth album, \u201cLux,\u201d a sweeping, spiritual work that does not overlook the flamenco rhythms of her earlier records.<\/p>\n

“Thanks for carrying me,” the 33-year-old added before breaking into tears as the audience erupted into applause.<\/p>\n

The tour which began last month in France will also take her to the United States and Latin America.<\/p>\n

Fans packed the arena to see Rosalia, who grew up in the nearby commuter town of Sant Esteve Sesrovires, perform in the city where he first began attracting attention as a student.<\/p>\n

“There was already an intention there, a very flamenco way of moving through life — which is to move with confidence,” \u00a0Luis Cabrera, founder of Taller de Musics, the music school where Rosalia enrolled in 2010, just before she turned 18, told AFP.<\/p>\n

– ‘Always restless’ –<\/p>\n

Rosalia, hailed for her genre-defying versatility, studied several subjects at the school, including flamenco singing with her mentor, Chiqui de la Linea.<\/p>\n

Cabrera recalled Chiqui saying early on that Rosalia\u2019s voice blended ancient flamenco styles with a strikingly modern sound.<\/p>\n

Hard-working and deeply engaged in her studies, she already had a clear sense of direction.<\/p>\n

“She used to ask a lot of questions, always restless. And when she said ‘I want my music to reach millions of people’ I was shocked,” Cabrera said with a smile at the school, where photos of Rosalia now decorate the walls.<\/p>\n

The “Rosalia effect” has since boosted enrolment in the school\u2019s vocal programme, he added.<\/p>\n

That same determination is remembered by music journalist and composer Luis Troquel, who closely followed her early years in Barcelona\u2019s music scene.<\/p>\n

“She told me she wanted to be a diva, but not in the distant sense. In the sense of an artist who sings on stage, dances, and pays close attention to image.” he said.<\/p>\n

“And she achieved that, even better than expected,” added Troquel, who worked on the lyrics of one of the songs of Rosalia’s 2018 breakthrough album “El mal querer” (“Bad love”).<\/p>\n

– ‘Boldness and self-confidence’ –<\/p>\n

That album, her second, began taking shape during her time at Catalonia\u2019s main public conservatory for higher music education, Barcelona’s ESMUC, where Rosalia completed a degree in flamenco singing.<\/p>\n

Like all students, she had to complete a final research project and graduation concert.<\/p>\n

Rosalia based her project on “Flamenca”, a medieval anonymous novel that inspired “El mal querer”, which she later performed as her final graduation recital.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Everyone still remembers that concert,” said ESMUC director general Nuria Sempere, describing Rosalia as a student who was “always focused and had strong family support”.<\/p>\n

“She had the boldness and self-confidence to take all her influences and present them to the public without any hesitation. That requires a lot of work,” Sempere added.<\/p>\n

ESMUC offers one place each year to study flamenco singing. Rosalia was awarded the place and now funds a scholarship for future students.<\/p>\n

A few years ago, Rosalia returned to the school to give a masterclass on creativity.<\/p>\n

“The first piece of advice was this: \u2018screw it — it doesn\u2019t matter, just go for it. You\u2019ll fix it later, but you have to jump in,'” Sempere recalled.<\/p>\n

Rosalia did —\u00a0and it worked. With two Grammy awards, 11 Latin Grammys and 28 million Instagram followers, she is now impossible to ignore.<\/p>\n

“In Spanish music, it\u2019s hard for me to find a phenomenon with the same scale of impact as Rosalia,” Troquel said.<\/p>\n

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