With her song 'Ay, mama', Rigoberta Bandini has become one of the favorites of the Benidorm Fest and her name sounds strong among the favorite candidates to be the representative of Spain in Eurovision 2022 to be held in May in Turin (Italy). ).
This week the musical theme already accumulated more than three million listeners on Spotify and is the only one of the 13 participants that has entered Spotify's list of the 50 most viral songs globally.
The singer, as expected, beat her teammates in the second semifinal on Thursday after she was the one with the highest score, 111 points, thanks to the support of the jury and the direct vote of the spectators. Rayden (90 points) and Xeinn (81) have also qualified. Thus, these will face each other in the final on Saturday, January 29, with those who obtained the most points on Wednesday in the first semifinal: Chanel, Tanxugueiras, Blanca Paloma and Varry Brava.
Her career as a singer
In 2010, she founded with Paula Malia and Bàrbara Mestanza the musical group The Mamzelles. They released two albums, edited by Discmedi Blau: 'Que se desnude Otra', in 2012, and 'Totem' in 2014. Before Rigoberta Bandini, she was also in another group called The Kardoshian.
In 2019 she launched her solo singing career under the name Rigoberta Bandini. When she truly rose to fame, it was in 2020 with 'In Spain we call it solitude', a song that has turned out to be a success. It went viral on Spotify, earning it over 200,000 monthly listens.
She sounds on Telecinco with the documentary by Rocío Carrasco
In addition, this song 'Ay mama' has also served to promote the second part of Rocío Carrasco's documentary series, an idea that she liked a lot because of all the meaning behind it, although she found out from someone else that her song was playing on Mediaset.
"A friend wrote to me asking me about this and I didn't know it. It's very strong, they don't stop putting it on Telecinco [...] I think it's cool that it's for this. If it were for something else, sometimes I'm more lazy, but Rocío's documentary is something that seems important to me," he said in 'Vertele'.
Rigoberta Bandini indicated that it is "necessary to support" the voice of Rocío Carrasco because she "represents many voices." "Her story of hers moves me, I am one hundred percent with her, and that the song is part of her story makes me very happy [...] In addition, her mother, Rocío Jurado, for me was the queen of Spain".
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She is a versatile and versatile woman.
She has also written a book, 'Vertigo', an autofiction about the crisis of the thirties. She is also a playwright, she has several plays behind her back as a director, a position in which she debuted in 2013 with 'Orgía' (Teatro Lliure de Barcelona) and to which she later added different productions such as 'Mafia' and 'El Chinabum' .
Ribó also entered the world of television, he was part of 'Crackovia' and 'Com si fos ahir' on the Catalan regional TV3 and has collaborated on radio in programs such as 'Más Morning 80' by Sergi Mas on the now defunct M80.
Her partner Esteban Navarro and their son
Personally, the author of hits like 'Perra', 'In Spain We Call it Soledad' or 'Too Many Drugs' shares life with her partner Esteban Navarro, 36, from the well-known comic duo Vengamonjas.
In June 2020, she and her boyfriend became parents. Rigoberta Bandini is the mother of a boy, Nico, her first and only child.
Rigoberta Bandini does not mince words and she spoke like this about her love story and her motherhood. “I got pregnant when I had been with my partner for 6 months. She had always wanted to be a mother, but she was screwed because Rigoberta was in the drawer. And they put so many fears in you, that I'm glad this is working. I hope there are girls from generations younger than mine who see that it is possible, that you can have a child and continue. Without being Beyoncé, like a normal person, ”she pointed out in an interview in 'Vogue'.
The artist believes that the most interesting challenge she faces when raising a boy is getting him to let go of "the heavy burden that they have made us understand that masculinity is."
Rigoberta revealed that what motivates her most about motherhood is "living a life from scratch again", that is, "accompanying a human being to the world and teaching him, in the best way you know, to manage his emotions and find a stability”. However, she misses some things from her previous life, such as being able to go out until late at night "and the next day being able to get up at 12."
The Spanish singer also told in all kinds of details how bad she had it when giving birth to her son in an interview for 'Flooxer', demystifying the idea that childbirth is beautiful and wonderful.
Rigoberta went to the hospital in her 41st week of pregnancy to request that her labor not be induced. However, the gynecologist told her that she could not wait any longer because the placenta was no longer feeding her baby and was endangering her health.
Doctors had to tie her hands and feet for the C-section “I don't want a C-section, but take it out now, if it's not feeding take it out now,” she recalled her saying. She was “30 hours dilating, I didn't dilate even milk, they broke my bag with horrific damage... My delivery was uphill, no, the next thing. My body did not want to give birth, it did not touch me, "said Paula.
She later recounted how the arrival of a midwife gave her "a lot of power" and she dilated two centimeters in an hour. However, when it seemed that everything was going well, the boy's heart began to stop, so they had to perform an emergency caesarean section.
"It's very brutal because they tie your hands and feet," she said. After the little one was born, he was so ill that she had to wait ten minutes to be able to hold the baby in her arms.