Sílvia Pérez Cruz

Nouvel album Oral-Abisal

Sílvia Pérez Cruz is one of the biggest success stories in Spanish popular music in recent years. Her voice, with its multiple registers of folk, jazz, flamenco and Latin-American melodies, is at once vibrant, firm, gentle and intoxicating. Her concerts are all events.

In 2022, she was awarded the Spanish Ministry of Culture’s National Prize for Contemporary Music for the audacity of her various artistic productions and “her unwavering commitment to beauty”.

Ever since her first steps in the world of music, Sílvia Pérez Cruz has always walked off the beaten track. This gifted musician took part in some thirty projects before signing her name to “11 de novembre”. This highly personal album, for which she wrote all the tracks, was named after the date of birth of her father, who died while composing it. Her next album, “Granada”, was co-written with her compatriot Raul Fernandez Miró, “Refree”. A gold disc that has amply contributed to his fame in his native Spain. Audiences there flock to each of her concerts, true rituals in which people of all ages can be seen transfixed by the magnetic beauty of an exceptional artist.

This was followed by the superb “Domus” and “Vestidad de nit”, before this new album: “Farsa (género imposible)”.
This album features thirteen original songs born of dialogue with other artistic disciplines, such as theater, film, dance and poetry. These include Sílvia’s version of the song “Intemperie”, the theme song for the film of the same name, directed by Benito Zambrano (2019), and winner of the Goya award for best original song in 2020.
It also includes the track “Grito Pelao” from the show by dancer and choreographer Rocío Molina, in which Sílvia starred; a show presented at the In d’Avignon and the Théâtre National de Chaillot.
The album also includes tracks Sílvia composed for the animated film “Josep” by French cartoonist Aurel César 2021 for best film, for which Sílvia Pérez Cruz was awarded the Lumière prize for best music last January.

With her album *Toda la vida un día*, released in 2023, her sensitive and intimate soulful singing explores impermanence, loneliness, and happiness… Five movements, like five stages of life.
In Sílvia’s words, this album is like an entire life, a cycle; it speaks of an infinite, circular time, organized into beginnings and endings. It comprises five movements, each with a distinct sound and artistic exploration.

In 2026, following a memorable concert at the Olympia in Paris celebrating her rich career, Silvia Pérez Cruz presented “Oral-Abisal,” a double album. Two textures are explored here: origin and quest; wood and metal; flesh and bone; warmth and the abyss; the hand and the infinite; pink and blue… Oral [pink] is home; it is song; it is the table; it is collective singing; it is a love story; it is the mother; it is the woman; it is sorrow and the flower. Compositionally, it is built on more complex yet luminous harmonies, with strings, vocals, and guitar as the main elements. Abyssal [blue] is the search; it is the depths, the dreamlike, the introspective song, glass, the seas, the unknown, the nights. Musically broader, deeper, with fewer chords, more cyclical, more fluid. The main element here is brass: trumpets; flutes also make an appearance. Oral_Abyssal is a back-and-forth between the known and the unknown; between where we come from and where we’d like to go.

“Whether she expresses herself in Castilian or Portuguese, the young Catalan folk singer remains stunning, with her suave, matte voice that bewitches and her unashamed presence, which has something of the naturalistic about it.” Télérama

“Sílvia Pérez Cruz makes history” Libération

Tiago Rodrigues talks about Sílvia Pérez Cruz on France Inter