- artist:Queralt Lahoz
- event type:WOMEX 24 Showcase - Official Selection
- date:26 Oct 2024
- time:21:00 - 21:45
- city/area:Manchester
- venue:Warehouse Stage A, Aviva Studios
- country:United Kingdom
- event posted by:Piranha Arts
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A cantaora for our times. The moment Queralt Lahoz starts to sing, you sense that she is drawing on a deep gene pool of ethnographic multiplicity, from the raw soul of flamenco, instilled in her by her grandmother, through growing up imbibing Latin artists such as Celia Cruz and Gloria Estefan, to teenage years spent hanging out on the streets of her neighbourhood with beat-makers and rappers of the burgeoning local hip-hop scene. It's this DNA – the natural convergence of copla, bachata, bolero, jazz, hip-hop and electronica – that manifested in her 2019 debut EP, titled 1917 after her grandmother's birth year. Her 2021 album, Pureza, set her on the road throughout the Iberian Peninsula, across Europe and the US. In 2023 her singular artistic achievement won her the EU's Music Moves Europe Award.