Aitana Ocaña has become a national superstar. She was already predicted by many when she was competing in Operación Triunfo, if the young woman was lucky and found a good team when she left the academy, Aitana could go very far in the world of art and music.
After getting a well-deserved second place in the television contest, the Catalan’s career took off, ahead of all her peers, achieving great successes and consolidating herself as one of the most listened to artists on music platforms. As of today, Aitana has more than 11 million monthly listeners on Spotify, an absolute outrage.
After experimenting with different styles and moving between classic pop and indie rock with her first studio albums, Spoiler and 11 Reasons, the Catalan singer will release her new album in 2023: Alpha, with which she will try to break all the schemes and continue to succeed in the Spanish music industry. Not many details about this project are yet known, but Aitana has given some clues. ”It’s a record with references to the nineties and the 2000’s. They are songs with more movement, but ballads do come, the truth “, she explained in an interview.
But who really is Aitana? So that you can get to know the young artist who is leading the charts of musical successes in our country a little better, we leave you a list of her with 5 curiosities about her.
Aitana was born in the Catalan town of San Clemente de Llobregat, but her roots are quite diverse. One of his grandparents, José ‘el Tostaíllo’, was from Torredonjimeno, Jaén, and was well known in his region for his gift for singing saetas.
“Even when we went to Catalonia, he maintained his fame: people listened to his voice on tapes when Holy Week arrived,” explained Cosme, Aitana’s father, in an interview with La Contra de Jaén.
Aitana had always considered herself a fan of Katy Perry and had never dared to dream that she would sing a song with the interpreter of I Kissed a Girl, but she was finally able to fulfill that wish in 2020.
Aitana and the American singer released Resilient (Tiësto Remix) on November 13 of that year, a remix of Resilient, one of the favorite songs from the Smile album, getting good data on music platforms, but without shining.
Aitana finished her baccalaureate in visual arts in 2017 and had taken the selectivity exam to study design the following year at the university. Despite the fact that her idea was to start her career in September, she went to the casting for Operación Triunfo and passed all the phases.
This made her priorities change, since Aitana decided to give up her place in the university degree and take the opportunity that RTVE was giving her. It seems that Aitana did not do wrong in betting on the contest, since he finished in a more than deserved second place and the experience opened the door to international success.
Aitana is celiac and allergic to pineapple. Miguel Bernardeau’s ex-girlfriend has to be very careful when eating, since many foods contain gluten, and she has to avoid pineapple at all costs if she wants to save a visit to the hospital.
Many of her fans commented amusedly on social networks about the irony that Aitana brought out a gluten-free menu for McDonalds, the McAitana, but the interpreter assures that she chose these products because they are her favorites, so despite not being able to eat them now, he believes they carry ”his essence”.
Aitana has collaborated with a wide variety of artists, from some very famous like Katy Perry or Pablo Alborán to others not so well known at the time, such as Fersquito and Mango or Zzoilo.
What many people don’t know is that Aitana recorded a song with C. Tangana at the end of 2020 that never saw the light of day. The singer has spoken on several occasions on this issue, arguing that it is a “very daring” song. In an interview, she assured that “the lyrics were too much, and Antón knows it.”
