Rocío Márquez

New Album “Himno Verical” on Tour 2027/2028

Rocio Márquez embodies contemporary flamenco at its highest level, through the transcendence of her singing, her deep understanding of the roots of her art, and the constant innovation she brings to it. Her excellence was recognized from the very beginning, in 2008 at the Festival Internacional del Cante de las Minas in La Unión. There, she won a host of awards, the most prestigious of which was the Lampara Minera. Since then, she has released five albums that are as ambitious as they are successful: *Claridad* (2013), *El Niño* (2015), *Firmamento* (2017), and *Diálogos de viejos y nuevos sones* (2018)—all of which have become milestones in the recent history of flamenco. In 2020, she became the first Spanish artist to win a Victoire de la Musique award (in the world music album category) for her album *Visto en el Jueves*.

This intense schedule has not prevented her from simultaneously pursuing artistic collaborations (with the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège, Jorge Drexler, Rosa Torres-Pardo, Ensemble Aedes, the Opéra National du Rhin, and others), completing a university dissertation on vocal technique in flamenco, and engaging in civic activism. In 2022, with producer Bronquio, she released a radical and sumptuous album, “Tercer Cielo,” which was unanimously praised by critics and is considered in Spain to be the best flamenco album of the past decade.
In 2025, she releases her seventh album, *Himno Vertical*, featuring exclusively the classical and electric guitars of Pedro Rojas Ogáyar. The work occupies an undifferentiated space between flamenco, classical music, and the experimental. Rocío reflects on the status of the female creator within the artistic sphere and, drawing on the body and voice, questions where the origin of creative inspiration lies. This album can be interpreted as a “dictation”—in the sense understood by the Argentine poet Roberto Juarroz in his *Poesía vertical*.