Rita Payés
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Background information | |
Born | 1999 Vilassar de Mar, Spain |
Genres | Jazz, bossa nova |
Occupation | Musician |
Instrument(s) | Vocals, trombone, guitar, keyboard |
Website | Official site |
Rita Payés Roma (born 1999)[1] is a Spanish jazz and bossa nova trombonist, singer and songwriter.[2]
Early life
[edit]Payés was born in Vilassar de Mar to a musical family with her mother, Elisabeth Roma, a classical guitarist and her father and brother trumpeters.[3] She graduated in jazz trombone at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya.[4]
Career
[edit]At the age of thirteen Payés joined the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, directed by Joan Chamorro where she began singing alongside Andrea Motis, Magalí Datzira, Alba Armengou and Eva Fernandez.[5] At fifteen, she released her first album.[6]
In September 2017, Payés, joined by the Motis Chamorro Quintet, played at the 17th Tanjazz festival in Tangier, Morocco.[7][8]
In 2019, Payés released Imagina, in collaboration with her mother.[5] The two went on tour to promote the album in Europe.[9][10] In alliance with Italian pianist Massimo Faraò , Payés in 2019 recorded two albums in New York: My Ideal starring Scott Hamilton, and In New York.[11][12]
On 16 April 2021, Payés released her album Como la piel in another cooperation with her mother, Roma, her partner, Pol Batlle, and with her brothers Eudald and Pere.[13] The album made NPR Music's best Latin album in 2021.[14] The track Nunca vas a comprender, an original composition, was an NPR Music's staff pick who described her voice as "angelic".[15] Two months later, she was given the 2021 Alícia prize for emerging talent, awarded by the Acadèmia Catalana de la Música.[16]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Rita_Pay%C3%A9s_Roma_%26_Elisabeth_Roma_07.jpg/220px-Rita_Pay%C3%A9s_Roma_%26_Elisabeth_Roma_07.jpg)
In June 2021, Payes and Roma presented their repertoire at JazzBaltica in Timmendorfer Strand, Germany, in a concert which impressed critic Angela Ballhorn through their simple and touching play.[17] During that summer, they also had a concert at the "INNtöne Jazzfestival" in the Innviertel, Austria, which was later aired by the Austrian radio station Ö1.[18]
In July 2022, Payés and her band played at Jazzclub Trier. The newspaper Volksfreund, titling "Heartache can be so fine", called her voice "phantastic", between ingratiation, aggression and infinite sadness.[19] In August, Payés met WDR Big Band for two concerts titled The Spanish Trombone in Cologne.[20][21] At ColorsxStudios in Berlin, Germany, Payés and Batlle recorded their new single "Vida" within the scope of A Colors Show.[22] In November, 2022, Payés performed with her group in Studio Foce, Lugano, Switzerland,[23] and had a concert at the 22nd festival Rigas Ritmi in Riga, Latvia,[24] before which they played at the concert hall Ancienne Belgique in Brussels, Belgium. In his concert report, Didier Deroissart described their repertoire as a mix of jazz, bossa nova and lounge music with some Americana.[25]
At the 36th Goya Awards ceremony in Valencia 2022, Payés performed Te venero with C. Tangana in a live TV broadcast by Radiotelevisión Española. About her performance Madrid's El Independiente wrote that her deep voice outshone "the famous presence of C. Tangana".[6][26]
Personal life
[edit]In December 2021, Payés announced that she had given birth to a girl.[27]
Discography
[edit]- Joan Chamorro presenta La Màgica de la Veu (Jazz to Jazz, 2014)
- Joan Chamorro presenta Rita Payés (Jazz to Jazz, 2015)
- Lua amarela (Jazz to Jazz, 2016)
- Imagina (with Elisabeth Roma, 2019)[5]
- My Ideal (Venus, 2019)
- In New York (Venus, 2019)
- Como la piel (with Elisabeth Roma, 2021)
Collaborations
[edit]- 2021 – La gent que estimo (with Oques Grasses)
References
[edit]- ^ "Rita Payés Roma". Rita Payés's official website. Archived from the original on 20 October 2020. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
- ^ Nazione, La (3 July 2022). "Villa Medicea: Rita Payés, la voce che incanta – Cronaca – lanazione.it". La Nazione (in Italian). Retrieved 9 September 2023.
- ^ Rosado, Benjamín G. (9 December 2022). "La vida en tromba de Rita Payés". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 September 2023.
- ^ Gómez Ruiz, Lara (16 February 2022). "La Esmuc, una fábrica de talentos que aterriza en los Goya" [Esmuc, a talent factory that lands at the Goyas]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
- ^ a b c "L'emoció familiar de Rita Payés i Elisabeth Roma" [The familial feeling of Rita Payés and Elisabeth Roma]. Enderrock (in Catalan). 2 May 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ a b Menéndez, Marta. "Rita Payés, de trombonista en una Jazz Band an eclipsar a C. Tangana" [Rita Payés, from trombonist in a Jazz Band to eclipse C. Tangana] (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 September 2023.
- ^ Tanjazz 2017 announcement and cast list for Rita Payès (in French)
- ^ Misk, Fedwa (20 September 2017). "Tanjazz dévoile les nouvelles voix du jazz" (in French). La Vie Éco (Casablanca). Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ "Much more than jazz at the London Catalan Festival". Institut Ramon Llull. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ "Set grups catalans i balears actuaran al cicle «Catalan Sounds» de Budapest" (in Catalan). Institut Ramon Llull. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ "My Ideal (Venus Records VHCD-1253)". venusrecord.com. 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ "In New York (Venus Records VHCD-1268)". venusrecord.com. 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ López Palacios, Iñigo (14 May 2022). "Rita Payés: "Me dicen que soy un poco vieja"" (in Spanish). El Pais. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ NPR staff (13 December 2021). "The Best Latin Music of 2021". NPR Music. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ Sayre, Anamaria (3 May 2021). "The Best Music Of April: NPR Staff Picks". NPR. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ "Proclamació dels Premis Alícia 2021" (in Catalan). L'Acadèmia Catalana de la Música. 21 June 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ Ballhorn, Angela (2021). "Jazzbaltica [2021]". Jazzthetik (in German). Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ "Junges Talent aus Barcelona: Rita Payés Roma". ORF (in German). 22 July 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ "So schön kann Liebeskummer sein". volksfreund.de (in German). 22 July 2022. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
- ^ "Konzert The Spanish Trombone mit der WDR Big Band" (in German). WDR. 27 August 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ Rita Payés & WDR BIG BAND – Nunca vas a comprender on YouTube. September, 2022.
- ^ "Rita Payés, juventud en géneros añejos" (in Spanish). revista revista. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ Onorato, Silvia (22 September 2022). ""La casa, un luogo perfetto per la musica jazz"" (in Italian). Lugano Eventi. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
- ^ "The program of the Rīgas Ritmi Festival 2022 has been announced". rigasritmi.lv. 4 May 2022. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
- ^ Deroissart, Didier. "Un concert à épingler… avec un trombone…" [A concert to pin down… with a trombone…]. musiczine.net (in French). Retrieved 25 May 2023.
- ^ Blanco, Leticia (13 February 2022). "C. Tangana and Rita Payés performing at los Goyas 2022" (picture) (in Spanish). El Mundo (Spain). Retrieved 10 April 2023.
- ^ "Pues a mí este año me ha traído este piesito lindo" (in Spanish). Instagram. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
External links
[edit]- 1999 births
- Living people
- 21st-century Spanish singers
- 21st-century Spanish women singers
- 21st-century trombonists
- Catalonia College of Music alumni
- Latin jazz trombonists
- Musicians from Barcelona
- Singer-songwriters from Catalonia
- Spanish jazz singers
- Spanish women singer-songwriters
- Spanish women jazz singers
- Women trombonists