La mala rodriguez biography

In the late '90s she rose to prominence alongside fellow Sevillian hip-hop acts La Gota Que Colma, SFDK, and La Alta Escuela.
María Rodríguez Garrido (born February 13, 1979), known as Mala Rodríguez, is a Spanish Latin hip hop rapper and singer based in Barcelona.
María Rodríguez Garrido, known as Mala Rodríguez, is a Spanish Latin hip hop rapper and singer based in Barcelona.

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Mala Rodríguez

Background information
Birth name	María Rodríguez Garrido
Also known as	La Mala Rodríguez
Born	(1979-02-13) February 13, 1979 (age 46) Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
Origin	Spain
Occupation(s)	Singer, Rapper
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1998–present
Labels	Universal Music

Mala Rodríguez is a Spanish singer-rapper. She represented Spain at the thirty-second edition of the North Vision Song Contest with the song "Aguante".

Early life[]

Maria Rodríguez was born in Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz on February 13, 1979. She grew up in Seville and became involved with the city's thriving hip-hop scene as a teenager. The daughter of a hairdresser in an Andalusian family, she describes herself as being from a working-class family, saying, "My mother and I are both young, and all I know is that my family experienced hunger back then, and that sticks with you. I didn't grow up with luxury, but I never missed a meal either. At age seventeen, she performed onstage for the first time, and adopted the stage name La Mala.

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Mala Rodríguez is the baseball bat-wielding voice of Latin Hip Hop. The multipleLatin GRAMMY-winning, Barcelona-based artist has earned unanimous praise for hersocially-minded lyrics and her sexually unabashed on-stage persona.

Always breaking barriers, Mala Rodriguez was the first (and only) female artist to win both BestUrban Album and Best Urban Song at the Latin GRAMMYS. Her extensive cataloguehas garnered her a multitude of fans, including Barack Obama, who featured Mala inhis Summer Spotify playlist. Mala Rodriguez has toured globally and has collaborated with a rangeof artists that include Romeo Santos, Nelly Furtado, Calle 13, Ibeyi, and Tego Calderon amongothers. Recent featurings this summer have gone Platinum.

Her latest single, “Contigo” (feat. StyloG) has quickly received millions of views, and Billboard callsit “a sensual reggaeton-meets-dancehall jam for lovers.” Mala marked her return in 2018 with thefeminist anthem “Gitanas.” Pitchfork said of the track: Her voice is bold and unflinching, when sheboldly asks “Quien me protege?” (“Who protects me?”) you can almos

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Mala Rodríguez

Rap singer, icon of flamenco and Gitana feminism

Born María Rodríguez on 13 February 1979 in Jerez de la Frontera, her vocation, and her life, saw her become Mala Rodríguez. Icon of rap, flamenco, and gypsy feminism, in her teens she worked as a waitress, aerobics teacher and cleaner. There, in Seville, she started rapping in a duo with DJ El Cuervo (of the QMJ collective). By 19 she had moved to Madrid, where she formed a relationship with the Zona Bruta label, recording her first songs outside the demo circuit. Her first LP, Lujo Ibérico, made her a phenomenon of the genre back in 2000, with a gold disc and 50,000 copies sold. That was followed by albums, TV censorship and more gold records. One of her strong points is her choice of collaborators, from rapper Focus (also the producer of Eminem) to worldwide Latin stars such as Juan Magán and Romeo Santos. A habitual voice on soundtracks and winner of several Latin Grammys, her discourse remains fierce, as shown by recent singles such as Gitanas. At Primera Persona she&rsq