If in 2019 the Goya Awards gala made Rosalía known to millions of viewers, at that time she was already taking off towards planetary stardom with the album ‘El mal querer’ and who performed a solemn version of the lethal Los Chunguitos classic ‘Me I stay with you’, In this evening of the Spanish cinema awards, it was Rita Payés who took the cat to water with her performance with C. Tangana, By the way, Rosalía’s former partner. Payés and C. Tangana performed ‘Te venero’, an unpublished song by C. Tangana, accompanied by a band and a wind and string octet.
Rita Payés is a singer and trombonist born in Vilassar de Mar in September 1999. In other words, no one would put him, given his naturalness and depth on stage, the age he is: 22 years old. Roger Roca, jazz critic for EL PERIÓDICO, wrote about her: “How strong that that girl who grew up playing swing classics in the Sant Andreu Jazz Band is today such a magnetic performer.” “Today” was April 2021, on the occasion of the presentation of ‘Como la piel’, Payés’ second album with his mother, guitarist Elisabeth Roma, at the Barts venue in Barcelona.
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The Sant Andreu Jazz Band is the unusual artistic and educational project to which Joan Chamorro, its promoter, has devoted himself body and soul over the last 15 years. Andrea Motis, the saxophonist Eva Fernández, the trumpeter Joan Mar Sauqué, the double bass player Magalí Datzira and, of course, Payés, who has also passed through the Higher School of Music of Catalonia (ESMUC)As the Music workshop and the Higher School of Music and Audiovisuals of Catalonia (ESCAC) an educational institution with proven success in training creators.
C. Tangana, smarter than hunger, he had already noticed Payés. ‘El Madrileño’ recognized that the inspiration for his song ‘Comerte entire’, between bolero and bossa nova, was ‘Something with you’, one of the songs on Payés’ debut album, ‘Imagina’, from 2019,