Rosalía has announced on her social networks that she will soon release a new song,
Linda,
in which she will sing with an artist with whom she had not worked before, the Dominican rag doll Tokischa. A few days ago the Catalan gave clues to this collaboration, posting photos on Instagram in which both appeared, and now the confirmation has come in the form of a preview of the video for her next song. But who is Tokischa Peralta (@ tokischa.popola on Instagram) and what has led them to work together? The two share a generation (Tokischa is 25 years old; Rosalía, 27), they share aesthetic tastes
(
dental
grills
, impossible manicures,
baby
hairstyles
)
and have collaborated with J Balvin (Rosalía published with him in 2019 the catchy
With height
and Tokischa has just released with the Colombian the single
Perra)
. The Dominican also pays attention to her fashion collaborations. For one of his latest videos, that of the song
Tukuntazo,
his
outfits
were created with clothes recovered by Tiempo de Zafra, the custom-made garment firm created from existing pieces founded in 2018 by New York-based Dominican Edgar Alejandro Graceful.
Just as Rosalía became a phenomenon in Spain, Tokischa is in recent times one of the artists who have shaken the scene in her country, the Dominican Republic. She is known for being outspoken about sex and having an account on the Only Fans adult content platform. His explicit lyrics and his video clips have sparked controversy - the video for his song
Desacato escolar
was removed from YouTube and denounced by the Dominican Ministry of Education—, but she does not stop defending her creative freedom, without listening to the critics: “I have always been very crude, I liked to say things as they are and I have had many problems that's why since I was a child ”, she said last year in an interview on Alofoke Radio Show. Although she has affirmed that since she was little she felt inclined towards the artistic world - she studied dance and did theater - Tokischa, who was born in Los Frailes (Santo Domingo), made the leap to the music scene just three years ago. He came to her by chance: in a photo shoot in which he was posing as a model, he met producer and creative director Raymi Paulus, who according to
Pitchfork
is the iconoclastic force that has made the
underground
urban genre hatch.
Dominican with his seal, and thus began his career.
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In 2018 he published
Picala
, his first song, an ode to marijuana - “I have a tray of yerba so I can smoke. The
sour
green the perfume I wear ,
"says his letter-, and said his nickname was Mary Jane because he smoked a
lot, but recently commented on his Twitter account that no longer does. Already then at the Sony record company they saw something in her speech and attitude that made them announce her as the “representation of the new female order”, and emphasize that “she follows a
raw and real
trap
line
that few would dare to follow, where fear of showing society everything that it does, likes or is does not exist. Thus promoting a lifestyle without hypocrisy, without gender stereotypes and anti-norms ”.
At that time he worked in a
call center
and listened to rock music - among his recognized influences are Janis Joplin, Nina Hagen and Jimi Hendrix - but he began to collaborate with Paulus and his career has only grown: Ozuna and Bad Bunny are self-confessed fans of his style and his onomatopoeic song
Tukuntazo,
along with El Cherry Scom and Haraca Kiko, is one of the themes of the year in Latin music for specialized media. In it, Tokischa continues to sing without censoring himself - “I have a boyfriend who is a womanizer. I fuck everything with him. And I have a father, who is empa'tilla. And he gets stuck in the cabin with his wife ”- true to his essence.