| Samantha Hudson | |
| Birth Name: | Iván González Ranedo[1] [2] [3] |
| Birth Date: | 1999 9, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | León, Spain |
| Genre: | Pop, Electronic music, Electroclash |
| Occupation: | Singer,[4] activist, multimedia artist, actress |
| Years Active: | 2015–present |
| Label: | Subterfuge Records |
Samantha Hudson (born September 11, 1999) is a Spanish artist, singer, actress, and internet celebrity.[5] [6]
Hudson was born in León in 1999 and later relocated to Mallorca. When he was 11 years old, he went through a phase of religious devotion to the Catholic Church, but he would later become annoyed by the lack of respect of the LGBT community.[7]
At 13 years, Hudson began to realise he was a transgender woman and began by experimenting with different ideas of gender that he ended up rejecting the idea. In a 2020 interview with El País he stated that "[at that age] I liked my appearance when I fit into a female role [...] I just wanted to be like that."[8] Samantha later stated in a 2022 interview for Vogue that the stage name "Samantha Hudson" came up as a suggestion from a friend in a conversation in which they fantasized about being "a suburban American mom who goes to pick up her kids in a seven-seater vehicle."[9]
After graduating from high school in 2017, Samantha moved to Barcelona with the ambition of becoming a professional musician. That same year, during a trip to Seville, he injured himself climbing up a balcony, for led to hm to be admitted to hospital for several weeks.[8] [10]
In 2018 he moved to Madrid.[11]
On May 11, 2023, Hudson released the EP EVOO. The album was based hardcore techno of the 1990s.[12] At the beginning of October of that same year she was nominated for the MTV Europe Music Awards in the category of Best Spanish Artist.[13] [14] shortly after releasing the single "Chula", which was based on nineties house music.[15] Samantha would win the award on November 5, 2023.[16]
En el momento en el que yo me pongo una corona, [esto] supone un acto político. En el momento en el que me pongo una mochila de princesas, estoy luchando contra un sistema que me oprime. Y cuando yo me visto de rosa y salgo a la calle y llamo la atención, estoy luchando contra una sociedad que me rechaza y me niega el derecho a disfrutar de mi propia vida. Porque yo realmente corro peligro por ser como soy.[17]
Iván González, en su discurso de graduación
The moment I put on a crown, [this] is a political act. The moment I put on a princess backpack, I'm fighting against a system that oppresses me. And when I wear pink and go out on the street and get attention, I am fighting against a society that rejects me and denies me the right to enjoy my own life. Because I'm really in danger because I'm the way I am.Iván González, in his graduation speech
At 15 years old, in 2015, Hudson made a video at the Josep Maria Llompart secondary school in Palma about audio-visual culture. Hudson created a song with in which he criticizes the Catholic Church and its beliefs regarding lbgt community using foul language. The song, titled "Maricón," was posted on YouTube in October 2015. Hudson stated in interviews that, to produce the song, he was inspired by an experience visiting a church where he went to listen to the The Song of the Sibyl: when entering the church, he described a negative reaction by parishioners with gazes.[18] [8]
As part of the school assignment, he received a grade of 9 out of 10 from his teacher.[19] Hudson school teachers supported Hudson assignment work, with the exception for the teacher of the subject of religion, who made the decision to mobilize to protest its publication. The teacher, who later complained in a blog post about what he described as Samantha's "shabby and repetitive" way of showing what he defined as "," confronted the rest of his classmates, who insisted that the work was "simply impeccable." Finally, he ended up making a wake-up call to the rest of the Catholic community.[20] The video would later be temporarily removed from Youtube.[21]
The then deputy for Citizens political party in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands, Olga Ballester, described the video as "blasphemous" and complained about the lack of action by the Balearic government.[22] The conservative organization HazteOír, collected 48,000 signatures seeking for the teacher. to be fired.[23] [19]
As a result of the video of "Maricón", Samantha was excommunicated by the bishop of Mallorca.[11] [24]
In 2024, Hudson was dropped as a spokesperson for Doritos due to Hudson's Twitter posts seeming to condone child abuse.[25] [26] She posted those tweets in 2014–2015, when she was between 14 and 15 years old. She responded to the controversy by saying that she was sorry and added "I didn't think that way and still don't think that way, at that age I thought making jokes about delicate topics made me cool".[27]
Samantha doesn’t describe himself as non binary.[8] In a 2021 interview, Hudson stated that he "could be included on the spectrum of non-binarism." In later interviews he has agreed with being addressed as Ivan he refers to himself as both male and female.[28] [18] [29]
In another, also from 2021, for the Heraldo de Aragón, he stated that "he cannot be pigeonholed into a musical or sexual genre".[28] In October 2022, he announced out as asexual.[30] Hudson politically, aligns himself as "anti-capitalist and Marxist."[31] In a 2020 interview for Vice magazine, he defined himself as a "drag queen" and "transvestite on call 24 hours a day."[32]
In an interview for the television show Viajando con Chester in February 2023, Samantha recalled that he had had sexual intercourse as a minor and concluded retrospectively that he had been sexually abused.[33]
| Title | Single |
|---|---|
| Maricón | 2015 |
| Super Preñada | 2016 |
| Burguesa Arruinada | 2017 |
| Seguro de moto | 2019 |
| Hazme el favor (vente conmigo a bailar) | 2020 |
| Dulce y Bautizada | 2021 |
| Disco Jet Lag (with La Prohibida) | |
| Guateque | |
| Por España | |
| Demasiado coño | 2022 |
| Perra (con La Dani) | |
| Otra vez | 2023 |
| Adicta al sonido | |
| Vodka Redbull | |
| Es lo que hay | |
| Chula[37] | |
| Year | Title | Character | Director | Notes | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Samantha Hudson, una historia de fe, sexo y electroqueer | Herself | Joan Porcel | Documentary film | [39] | |
| 2021 | ¡Corten! | Marc Ferrer | [40] | |||
| 2022 | Rainbow | Ingrid | Paco León | [41] |
| Year | Title | Character | Channel | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Mai neva a ciutat | Herself | IB3 | Episode: «Fantasmes de la vella escola» | |
| 2020 | Veneno | Librarian | Atresplayer Premium | Episode: «Los tres entierros de Cristina Ortiz» | [42] |
| 2021 | Una Navidad con Samantha Hudson | Samantha Hudson | Atresplayer Premium | Television film | |
| Year | Title | Channel | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 - 2022 | ¿Sigues ahí? | Netflix | Presenter | [43] |
| 2021 | MasterChef Celebrity España | La 1 | Contestant | [44] |
| Amor con Fianza: El reencuentro | Netflix | Presenter | [45] | |
| 2022 | Crímenes online | Flooxer | Presenter | [46] |
| Sálvame Fashion Week | Telecinco | Jury | [47] | |
| Sálvame Mediafest | Telecinco | Jury | [48] | |