Alicia Ramos Explained

Alicia Ramos
Birth Name:Alicia Ramos Triano
Birth Date:1969 9, df=yes[1]
Birth Place:Güímar. Spain
Occupation:Singer and writer

Alicia Ramos Triano, known professionally as Alicia Ramos (Güímar, September 13, 1969), is a Spanish LGBT singer-songwriter, columnist, and writer.

Early life

She was born in the Tenerife municipality of Güimar, in the Canary Islands. Academically, she has a degree in geography and history,[2] but music has interested her since she was very young. She began to play Canarian folklore at the age of nine,[3] and later she studied piano at the Conservatory.[4]

She made her first compositions at the age of fifteen or sixteen.[5] She claims to have forged her musical taste listening to Deep Purple, the bands ofe Ritchie Blackmore, Lucinda Williams, Shooter Jennings, Sheryl Crow or John Mayer in his last stages, but also other voices such as John Denver, Silvio Rodríguez, the figures of the Novísima Trova Cubana Frank Delgado and Carlos Varela, or singers like Fito Páez and Andrés Calamaro. Her music is a mix of styles, but country rock is the most common one. Her lyrics are always mean and funny.[6] [7]

Career

As a result of participating in an open mic whose proposal was to make a song about a current issue every week, she composed two of her best known songs, "Mi Amante Urdangarín" and "Muérete tú dedicated" to Christine Lagarde, director of the International Monetary Fund, after she asked in 2012 for a lowering of pensions because of "the risk of people living longer than expected".[8]

In 2014, her song "Y las flores" was the soundtrack of the documentary directed by Fernando Olmeda, El viaje de Carla, about the life of the politician and LGBT rights activist Carla Antonelli, a fellow countryman of Ramos.[9] In August 2015, she released her first album, Ganas de quemar cosas, with ten songs that, according to herself, have never failed her. She was able to do so because the sound technician of a hall where she had performed offered to record it in her spare time without charging her. Lumpenprekariät, her second album, came out in September 2018. The name of the album is a play on the Marxist term lumpenproletariado.

With her band Brútiful[10] or solo, she performs on stages in bars, theaters, festivals, self-managed social centers, cultural centers, or in the street. Sometimes, her alter ego, Alicia Bouquet, comes out on stage and sings English love and heartbreak songs.

She is part of the Arte Muhé collective, a multidisciplinary artistic project whose aim is to make women artists visible.[11]

Although she has stated that music is her life, Ramos is also the author of a novel titled El último vándalo (que yo sepa) and frequently writes for media outlets such as Píkara Magazine,[12] [13] Diario Público,[14] ElDiario.es[15] or El Salto.[16] In March 2020, she took over a column in CTXT, which is called the same as her first album, Ganas de quemar cosas.[17]

She has never defined herself as an activist, but the truth is that she has collaborated for four years with the association of families of transsexual minors, Chrysallis[18] [19] and has been part of the cast of the short film Transparente, produced by the association.[20]

Acknowledgments

She has received awards from entities that fight for the rights of LGBT people:

Literary awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Alicia Ramos . Cancion con todos . es . 2022-06-18 . 2022-05-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220523051246/http://www.cancioncontodos.com/autor/alicia-ramos . dead .
  2. Web site: 24 November 2019 . Alicia Ramos . Euforia . es.
  3. Web site: Alicia Ramos (cantante): "La censura más grave es la que la ciudadanía se aplica a sí misma" . 24 December 2014 . DosManzanas. es.
  4. Web site: Cantautora y transexual: Alicia Ramos o cómo reinventarse . 24 March 2014 . MíraLES . es.
  5. Web site: 2 February 2017 . Alicia Ramos: "Tengo más dificultades por ser mujer que por ser transexual" . OFF Magazine . es.
  6. Web site: 6 April 2015 . La cantautora contra el FMI que no puede pagarse un disco . ElConfidencial . en.
  7. Web site: Alicia Ramos ofrece un concierto en el Teatro Guimerá dentro del ciclo "Palabra de autor" . 14 January 2014 . La revista de canarias . es.
  8. News: 11 April 2012 . El FMI pide bajar pensiones por "el riesgo de que la gente viva más de lo esperado" . El País . es.
  9. Web site: 23 February 2014 . El viaje de Carla. Cómo descubrí a Alicia Ramos . El Viaje de Carla . es.
  10. Web site: ALICIA RAMOS - BRÚTIFUL . Ayuntamiento - Soto del Real . es.
  11. Web site: 11 July 2019 . Homenaje a las activistas trans que han inspirado mi feminismo . ElDiario . es.
  12. Web site: Alicia Ramos, autora en pikara magazine . pikara magazine . es.
  13. Web site: 28 October 2020 . Heridas de bala . pikara magazine . es.
  14. Web site: 31 December 2019 . Al diablo no le gusta que sepan que existe . Público . es.
  15. Web site: 29 June 2017 . Frente a la transfobia: yo elijo vivir . ElDiario . es.
  16. Web site: El último cartucho . El Salto Diario . es.
  17. Web site: Ruido de próstatas . ctxt . es.
  18. Web site: 21 November 2018 . "Es probable que vengan a embargarme la guitarra a mitad del concierto" . Lagenda . es.
  19. Web site: 17 January 2017 . Entrevista Alicia Ramos: "La mejor forma de defender los derechos es ejercerlos" . Oveja Rosa . es.
  20. Web site: TRANSPARENTE (Cortometraje) . https://web.archive.org/web/20210116140624/https://chrysallis.org.es/transparente-cortometraje/ . 16 January 2021 . NorfiPC . es.
  21. Web site: elEconomista . 24 February 2016 . El ex Defensor del Pueblo Vasco, la secretaria andaluza de Salud Pública o 'La Negri', Premios Adriano Antinoo 2016 . El Economista . es.
  22. Web site: 9 May 2018 . Boti, Los Javis o Alicia Ramos entre los Premios Plumas 2018 . MAGCEDONIA . es . 18 June 2022 . 21 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210121232357/http://magcedonia.com/boti-los-javis-o-alicia-ramos-entre-los-premios-plumas-2018/ . dead .
  23. Web site: 21 June 2019 . COGAM entrega sus premios con un llamamiento a "no dar ni un paso atrás" ante los "caminantes grises" de la LGTBifobia . EuropaPress. es.
  24. Web site: Alicia Ramos gana el premio "Benito Pérez Armas" con "El último vándalo" . EFE . es.

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