Biography
Ruth Lorenzo brought prior experience in music competitions to her 2014 representation of Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest. Six years earlier she had relocated to the U.K. and entered the fifth season of The X Factor, where her commanding, accurate vocal style earned strong approval from both the panel and viewers, resulting in a fifth-place finish. Following that exposure, her bilingual Eurovision song “Dancing in the Rain” reached the Spanish Top Five, after which her first album, 2014’s Planeta Azul, entered the Top Three. The pop artist achieved a number-one single with “Voces” in 2016 and followed it with the 2018 hit album Loveaholic. The sweeping title song from her third album, “Crisálida,” appeared in 2021.
Born Ruth Lorenzo Pascual in Murcia in 1982, she started singing at a young age by imitating opera diva Montserrat Caballé and numbers from the musical Annie. After her family relocated to the U.S. when she was ten, schoolteachers supported her vocal development. She then took singing and dance lessons and appeared in amateur stagings of The Phantom of the Opera and My Fair Lady. At sixteen her family returned to Spain, prompting her to view music as a viable profession. She auditioned for the Spanish television contest Operación Triunfo without advancing past the initial rounds, subsequently assembled a band that toured Spain for several years until its dissolution, and later accepted a position with a holiday resort firm handling both public relations and live performances at its properties.
Her 2008 U.K. X Factor placement ultimately opened doors in Spain. After finishing fifth she secured a contract with Virgin EMI and devoted two years to composing material for a debut album, yet parted from the label because of creative disagreements. She then issued her first single, “Burn,” independently through crowdfunding; the 2011 track, recorded with her newly assembled backing band the Raspberry Pattern, reached number 16 in Spain. Continued European touring expanded her following, and Spanish audiences selected her as their preferred entrant for the 2014 Eurovision Contest. Her entry, the expansive bilingual ballad “Dancing in the Rain,” placed tenth at the event while peaking at number five on the Spanish singles chart. In October 2014 her debut full-length, Planeta Azul, arrived on Roster Records and reached the album-chart Top Three, yielding two further Top Ten singles, “99” and “Gigantes.”
Lorenzo returned to the top of the Spanish singles chart in 2016 with the charity release “Voces” on Universal and delivered her sixth Top Ten single, “Good Girls Don’t Lie,” the following year. Both tracks appeared on her second album, Loveaholic, a Top Ten project issued on Raspberry Records in 2018 and produced by Red Triangle; the set also featured a collaboration with guitarist Jeff Beck on “Another Day.” The standalone single “Underworld” surfaced in 2019, after which she began unveiling material from her third album, Crisálida, beginning with the January 2021 title track.
Born Ruth Lorenzo Pascual in Murcia in 1982, she started singing at a young age by imitating opera diva Montserrat Caballé and numbers from the musical Annie. After her family relocated to the U.S. when she was ten, schoolteachers supported her vocal development. She then took singing and dance lessons and appeared in amateur stagings of The Phantom of the Opera and My Fair Lady. At sixteen her family returned to Spain, prompting her to view music as a viable profession. She auditioned for the Spanish television contest Operación Triunfo without advancing past the initial rounds, subsequently assembled a band that toured Spain for several years until its dissolution, and later accepted a position with a holiday resort firm handling both public relations and live performances at its properties.
Her 2008 U.K. X Factor placement ultimately opened doors in Spain. After finishing fifth she secured a contract with Virgin EMI and devoted two years to composing material for a debut album, yet parted from the label because of creative disagreements. She then issued her first single, “Burn,” independently through crowdfunding; the 2011 track, recorded with her newly assembled backing band the Raspberry Pattern, reached number 16 in Spain. Continued European touring expanded her following, and Spanish audiences selected her as their preferred entrant for the 2014 Eurovision Contest. Her entry, the expansive bilingual ballad “Dancing in the Rain,” placed tenth at the event while peaking at number five on the Spanish singles chart. In October 2014 her debut full-length, Planeta Azul, arrived on Roster Records and reached the album-chart Top Three, yielding two further Top Ten singles, “99” and “Gigantes.”
Lorenzo returned to the top of the Spanish singles chart in 2016 with the charity release “Voces” on Universal and delivered her sixth Top Ten single, “Good Girls Don’t Lie,” the following year. Both tracks appeared on her second album, Loveaholic, a Top Ten project issued on Raspberry Records in 2018 and produced by Red Triangle; the set also featured a collaboration with guitarist Jeff Beck on “Another Day.” The standalone single “Underworld” surfaced in 2019, after which she began unveiling material from her third album, Crisálida, beginning with the January 2021 title track.
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