Do you want to see Paopao upset? Tell her to compose a song on the theme of women’s empowerment.
“I hated when they said that word to me because it became a formula in the industry,” said the music singer urban. “My strong point for me as an artist is to write my lyrics as I write, explicit and aggressive.”
With that not at all demure style, he left more than one speechless, especially people from his RichMusic label. Paopao was the first female singer hired by this independent company founded in 2007.
In fact, Paopao –whose first name is Paola Nicole Marrero– began her career in the world of music as a composer. But to stand out, she moved away from the trite phrases that spoke of spite and how girls stopped depending on a man; she instead included lyrics that used the same language that many male singers use in her songs.
“When men hear that they tell me, ‘hey, you you put’ because I put him as a male”, said the Puerto Rican artist. “Then I can write for them because I introduce him as a macho, but all the songs that women sing are written by men, so why can’t it be the other way around?”
Por This courage with which Paopao arrived at his record company was why they made him a rather peculiar commission; They asked her to be the executive producer of the company’s first EP in which all those who participated were women.
Paopao got down to work and called La Gabi, Aria Vega , Cami Da Baby and Villano Antillano, all of them women from different Latin American countries who are starting their careers and who are struggling to earn a place in the competitive and macho world of urban music.
The result was “Hembrismo”, an album of seven songs whose cut they are now promoting is “Hebilla”.
“[Las escogí a ellas] because I wanted girls who have a lot to say but don’t have the opportunity to do it”, said Paopao in a zoom meeting in which they were all present . “He wanted girls to get into him.”
The road, however, is still long, said Villano , originally from Puerto Rico and one of the first women of the LGBTQ community in the Latino urban genre.
“The environment is very hostile,” she said. “Every day you have to prove yourself again: that you have intelligence, talent… That never happens with men.”
Aria, from Colombia, has had to deal with several situations, the The first is that she says that some men were interested in her but not in her music. And also that they told him that his voice sounded very nice for the urban genre.
The collaboration, no However, it allowed everyone to contribute something, said Paopao.
“It is a combination of all these cultures, flavors and colors,” he said.
