There are voices that not only sound: they resonate. In recent years, one of them has emerged strongly from the Mediterranean coast of Spain to international scenarios: guitarricadelafuente. Álvaro Lafuente Calvo in the document, originally from Benicàssim, Spain, has built a musical proposal where flamenco, Ibero -American folk, indie and contemporary pop merge into a unique, organic, and deeply emotional identity.
This 27 -year -old artist has managed to move between the traditional and the avant -garde, the intimate and the massive, accumulating more than 350 million views on digital platforms, and transcending the music by placing itself in the reflector of other creative industries.
In 2020, he contributed the soundtrack to the iconic Jacquemus spring-summer 2021 parade in the Val-D’Oise wheat fields, France. In 2023, he debuted as a model in a campaign for Loewe. In 2025, together with Zara he released a capsule collection, and was one of Jonathan Anderson’s guests at his debut parade for Dior. Soon we will see it acting in The black ballthe next film by Los Javis, along with talents such as Penelope Cruz and Miguel Bernardeau.
Your first album, The quarry (2022), produced by Raül Refree (Rosalía, C. Tangana), offered a lyrical tax to its roots. But it was in 2018 when everything started, recording “Contictable” with a video game microphone and uploading it to YouTube and Spotify. Today, that same song is part of a global Apple campaign directed by Spike Jonze and starring Pedro Pascal.
In May 2025 he launched Spanish Leatheryour second study album whose title refers to Boots of Spanish Leather of Bob Dylan. This second album changes the focus of the past towards the speed of the present, oscillating between the emotional vertigo, the stimuli of the current times, and the aesthetics of the immediate. Álvaro travels through new nuances, without neglecting the soul of his project: a musical work that speaks of love and art of getting carried away.
“When I met Luca Guarini, the creative director who led the visual work of Spanish Leatherhe asked me: But you, what do you want to be? Do you want to be a cult artist, niche, an intellectual, or do you want to be a Popstar? And I replied, because an intermediate point, right? ” He says smiling.
With this album he has started a tour of Spain, Mexico and the United States, including a special stop at Central Park, New York.
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With Spanish leather boots: the new trip of guitarricadelafuente
Spanish Leather is a declaration of freedom, exploration, fun, love, and enjoy, very well orchestrated. To build this universe, guitarricadelafuente worked hand in PabloPablo (who has collaborated with C. Tangana, and is the winner of 4 Latin Grammy’s) and son of singer Jorge Drexler.
“Before I thought that the genuine was what came out of you, narrated by you. And I have realized that I was very wrong. At the same time, something that inspired me for this album was to try to tell generation You run the risk of many more prejudices.
Apparently, Guitarricadelafuente is one of those artists loved by other celebrities, accumulating anecdotes among which Dua Lipa’s assistance to his concert in Mexico in 2022, the admiration of Tim Cook
Upon meeting him in an Apple event in Madrid, and a friendship with Troye Sivan that resulted in the collaboration of the song “ In My Room ” with which they presented themselves together at Spring Sound Barcelona in 2024.
Living is getting carried away
The original of Benicàssim understands that living is also to be carried away, and as a good literality of the current stimuli he shares that “I have always inspired myself a lot in nostalgia, in the yearning for past times that perhaps they were better, or for future times where we wait for something to come, and I think that it is in the flow Everything I think there is one thing to give you, not put a barrier to your instinct and get carried away by your feelings, ”shares the singer -songwriter to Forbes.
On the other hand, the artist’s vocation is to be an entrepreneur, and beyond the stage, Álvaro has the mentality and understands that perfection is an enemy of progress. “Following the theme of Spanish Leather You have to surrender to the immediacy, and not try to add layers and layers, but be very intuitive, pay attention to what you are feeling, and not give it many more laps, “he says.” In the end I think when you undertake, you are giving everything in you so that it works, because if you do not push you, you will not push anyone else. “
In his words, if this were a television series, the career of guitarricadelafuente is found in the first scenes, what he calls “ The introduction to the plot. ” However, everything indicates that it will not be any introduction, but one of those whose plot catches you from the beginning and for which you can no longer see it.
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