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Rita Payés at Cartagena (2022)

Rita Payés Roma (born 1999)[1] is a Spanish jazz and bossa nova trombonist, singer and songwriter.[2]

Early life

Payés was born in Vilassar de Mar to a musical family with her mother, Elizabeth Roma, a trained classic guitarist and her father and brother trumpeters.[3] She graduated in jazz trombone at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya.[4]

Career

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, 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 [de], Payés in 2019 recorded two VHCDs 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 in part 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]

Payés with Elisabeth Roma, Horacio Fumero [ca] (left) and Nicolas Correa (right) at the INNtöne Jazzfestival (2021)

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 ColorsxStudio 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 outshined "the famous presence of C. Tangana".[6][26]

Personal life

In December 2021, Payés announced that she had given birth to a girl.[27]

Discography

  • 2014 – Joan Chamorro presenta La Màgica de la Veu (Jazz to Jazz)
  • 2015 – Joan Chamorro presenta Rita Payés (Jazz to Jazz; with Scott Hamilton, Ignasi Terraza, Dick Oatts, Scott Robinson)
  • 2016 – Lua amarela (Jazz to Jazz; with Joan Chamorro).
  • 2019 – Imagina (with Elisabeth Roma).[5]
  • 2019 – My Ideal (Venus Records) featuring Scott Hamilton, Massimo Faraò, Nicola Barbon and Roberto „Bobo" Facchinetti
  • 2019 – In New York (Venus Records) featuring Faraò, Jimmy Cobb, Louis Hayes and Jerry Weldon
  • 2021 – Como la piel (with Elisabeth Roma).

Collaborations

  • 2021 – La gent que estimo (with Oques Grasses)

References

  1. ^ "Rita Payés Roma". Rita Payés's official website. Archived from the original on 20 October 2020. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  2. ^ Nazione, La (3 July 2022). "Villa Medicea: Rita Payés, la voce che incanta – Cronaca – lanazione.it". La Nazione (in Italian). Retrieved 9 September 2023.
  3. ^ Rosado, Benjamín G. (9 December 2022). "La vida en tromba de Rita Payés". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 September 2023.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Tanjazz 2017 announcement and cast list for Rita Payès (in French)
  8. ^ Misk, Fedwa (20 September 2017). "Tanjazz dévoile les nouvelles voix du jazz" (in French). La Vie Éco (Casablanca). Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  9. ^ "Much more than jazz at the London Catalan Festival". Institut Ramon Llull. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  10. ^ "Set grups catalans i balears actuaran al cicle «Catalan Sounds» de Budapest" (in Catalan). Institut Ramon Llull. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  11. ^ "My Ideal (Venus Records VHCD-1253)". venusrecord.com. 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  12. ^ "In New York (Venus Records VHCD-1268)". venusrecord.com. 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  13. ^ López Palacios, Iñigo (14 May 2022). "Rita Payés: "Me dicen que soy un poco vieja"" (in Spanish). El Pais. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  14. ^ NPR staff (13 December 2021). "The Best Latin Music of 2021". NPR Music. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  15. ^ Sayre, Anamaria (3 May 2021). "The Best Music Of April: NPR Staff Picks". NPR. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  16. ^ "Proclamació dels Premis Alícia 2021" (in Catalan). L'Acadèmia Catalana de la Música. 21 June 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  17. ^ Ballhorn, Angela (2021). "Jazzbaltica [2021]". Jazzthetik (in German). Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  18. ^ "Junges Talent aus Barcelona: Rita Payés Roma". ORF (in German). 22 July 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  19. ^ "So schön kann Liebeskummer sein". volksfreund.de (in German). 22 July 2022. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  20. ^ "Konzert The Spanish Trombone mit der WDR Big Band" (in German). WDR. 27 August 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  21. ^ Rita Payés & WDR BIG BAND – Nunca vas a comprender on YouTube. September, 2022.
  22. ^ "Rita Payés, juventud en géneros añejos" (in Spanish). revista revista. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  23. ^ Onorato, Silvia (22 September 2022). "„La casa, un luogo perfetto per la musica jazz"" (in Italian). Lugano Eventi. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  24. ^ "The program of the Rīgas Ritmi Festival 2022 has been announced". rigasritmi.lv. 4 May 2022. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  25. ^ 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.
  26. ^ 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.
  27. ^ "Pues a mí este año me ha traído este piesito lindo" (in Spanish). Instagram. Retrieved 27 August 2023.