Who is Álvaro de Luna, alongside Angelina Mango in the Spanish version of La Noia

After announcing his new album, poke melodramaand having spoiled some of the singles that will be included in the album, last week Angelina Mango announced the Spanish version of Boredom. The winning song of the 74th edition of the Sanremo Festival will allow her to collaborate with a Spanish singer, born in 1994, directly from Seville. This is Álvaro de Luna, an author who had already had some contacts with the world of Italian music. In fact, last summer the author went on stage at Battiti Live to sing his Eternal Oath of Salover 123 million streams on Spotify. Taking a step back, we can observe that Angelina Mango will be the second artist on the Italian scene to collaborate with him, after the 2021 featuring with Emma Muscat and the rapper Astol, coming from Amici 17.

Better in the evening, this is the title of the single, has collected over 23 million streams. Only a few years earlier, the author from Seville had faced a long apprenticeship before arriving on the national stage. As he revealed in a 2022 interview with El Mundo, since 2016 he began producing music, without finding any entry point: a result that it will also lead him to move to London to work as a music producer, before returning to Spain, where he also worked as a sound engineer. An experience that will allow him to participate in a musical competition in 2018, the Salamanca Band Contest, together with Carlos, Pedro, José and Manú who they will form the band Sinsinati with him.

The group will publish When Eramos Dos And Indians and Vaquerosover 140 million streams they will bring the band also in the Spanish radio charts. The following year, Álvaro de Luna was chosen as a competitor La Voz, Spanish version of The Voice, in Luis Fonsi’s team. The singer-songwriter manages to get to the final stages of the talent show, also letting his audience discover the band’s works. In 2020, after the large following achieved by de Luna, the band will disband and solo work will begin for the Spanish singer. To date there have been two albums published, We will rise to the sunin which it is also contained Eternal Oath of Sal, is one. The second album, released on September 29, 2023, has its most notable episodes in All Contigo71 million streams, and Bring Malstops at 13. It will be interesting to understand how the collaboration with Angelina Mango can introduce a singer-songwriter like Álvaro de Luna to the mainstream Italian public. Especially after having witnessed many experiments with Latin influences in the Italian music market over the years, sometimes gone well, sometimes left as isolated episodes in the artists’ discographies.