Motomami’s “Saoko” stressed that she was a transformer; Lux replaces everything under its predecessor’s hood without losing any of the horsepower. Photo: ROSALÍA via YouTube The patron saint Rosalia of Palermo was a preteen Sicilian girl from a well-to-do family in the 1100s who, facing an arranged marriage, renounced her wealth and cloistered herself in nearby mountain caves to pray …
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Rosalía is redrawing pop’s map at a stunning pace. Her first two records, Los Ángeles and El Mal Querer, brought flamenco into the mainstream; the second fractured the genre from its tradition, unearthing a pop architect intent on stitching sacred text with street expression. Then came MOTOMAMI, a world born of Caribbean heat and unbridled nerve, cementing her as an …
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Mark SavageMusic correspondent Getty Images Rosalía emerged in 2018 and has become one of the biggest Latin stars in music Over her brief discography, Rosalía has never met a convention she couldn’t break. Born in Barcelona, the singer has spent the last seven years innovating at a speed that makes her contemporaries look comically lazy. Her breakthrough album, El Mal …
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Recently, while promoting her new album, Lux, Rosalía recorded a TikTok Live that shows her in her car, tearing through the night-slicked streets of Madrid, blasting Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro on her sound system while meeting fans on her way to the opulent Plaza Callao. Normally, a moment like that would feel slight, mundane, and almost unremarkable, but somehow those …
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Rosalía’s goal making Lux this ambitious, she says, is to reconcile her desire to make music that’s “to just enjoy” and “music that challenges you.” Rosalía/Columbia Records hide caption toggle caption Rosalía/Columbia Records Rosalía‘s only constant is transformation. An artist always ahead of her time, she has continually innovated at a speed that many of her peers have stumbled to …
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Reviews continue rolling out for Apple’s latest iPhone lineup, including from noted photographers like Austin Mann and Tyler Stalman. Now Lux, the creators of pro camera app Halide, has published their own iPhone 17 Pro camera review. Lux’s iPhone 17 Pro camera review For those looking to have a lot more control of their iPhone cameras than Apple’s default Camera …
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