The Catalan star has shot to fame with a bass-heavy, melancholic dancehall hybrid – and she says the sound is liberating for women
“A Spanish artist doesn’t get this big,” says Alba Farelo, better known as Bad Gyal. “And a Catalan artist – never.” It’s true: what started as a hastily recorded cover of Rihanna’s Work has spiralled into a highly unusual success story for the 21-year-old from Vilassar de Mar, a seaside town near Barcelona.
Since Bad Gyal’s inception in 2016, Farelo’s stew of reggaeton, dancehall and melancholic electronics – sung in a mixture of Catalan, Spanish and English – has carried her around the globe, garnered feverish critical acclaim – Fact magazine named the seductively glum Jacaranda the best song of 2017 – and racked up tens of millions of YouTube hits.
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