Carmina Burana<\/em>-like chorus and then Rosal\u00eda singing in an operatic soprano voice \u2014 in three languages.<\/p>\n\n\tFor Rosal\u00eda, challenging preconceptions about the type of music she, or anyone, can make is part of the point \u2014 thinking outside the box, following her inspiration and constantly learning, finding and creating from a place of curiosity and openness to new experiences and ideas. \u201cI think that in order to fully enjoy music, you have to have a tolerant, open way of understanding it,\u201d she says. \u201cBecause music is the \u20184\u201933\u201d\u00a0\u2019 of John Cage, as much as the birds in the trees for the Kaluli of New Guinea, as much as the fugues of Bach, as much as the songs of Chencho Corleone. All of it is music. And if you understand that, then you can enjoy in a much fuller, profound way, what music is.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tWhen did you start working on this album?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI don\u2019t think that it\u2019s easy to measure when something like this happens or starts. The album is heavily inspired by the world of mysticism and spirituality. Since I was a kid, I\u2019ve always had a very personal relationship with spirituality. That\u2019s the seed of this project, and I don\u2019t remember when that started.<\/p>\n
\n\tHow did you approach Lux<\/em> differently?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tThis album has a completely different sound than any of the projects that I\u2019ve done before. It was a challenge for me to do a more orchestral project and learn how to use an orchestra, understand all the instruments, all the possibilities, and learn and study from amazing composers in history and say, \u201cOK, that\u2019s what\u2019s been done. What can I do that feels personal and honest for me?\u201d And also the challenge of having that inspiration in classical music and trying to do something that I haven\u2019t done before, trying to write songs from another place. Because the instrumentation is different from all the other projects I have done. But also the writing, the structures, it\u2019s very different.<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tChlo\u00e9 dress, shoes, and scarf.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAlex G. Harper<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\tAfter Motomami<\/em>, your success and fame hit a new level. How did that help you make this album?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tAll the albums I\u2019ve done helped me be able to be the musician I am today and make this album now. Lux<\/em> wouldn\u2019t exist if I hadn\u2019t taken the previous steps. Each album helped me release something, to free myself as much as possible. Every time I go to the studio, it\u2019s from wanting to play around, try something different, to find different styles of making songs. I always try to stay open.<\/p>\n\n\tYou\u2019ve said Motomami<\/em> was inspired by the energy of L.A., New York, Miami. What was your mission in making Lux<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tIt\u2019s made from love and curiosity. I\u2019ve always wanted to understand other languages, learn other music, learn from others about what I don\u2019t know. It comes from curiosity, from wanting to understand others better, and through that I can understand who I am better. I love explaining stories. I like to be the narrator. I think as much as I love music itself, music is just a medium to explain stories, to put ideas on the table. So that\u2019s what this project is for me. I\u2019m just a channel to explain stories, and there\u2019s inspiration in different saints from all across the world. So you could say it feels like a global thing, but at the same time, it\u2019s so personal for me. Those stories are exceptional. They are remarkable stories about women who lived their lives in a very unconventional way, of women who were writers in very special ways. And so I\u2019m like, \u201cLet\u2019s throw some light there.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tWhat I know is that I am ready, and this is what I needed to do. What I know is that this is what I was supposed to write about. This is my truth. This is where I am now.<\/p>\n
\n\tWhat contributes to the fact that the album feels so global is you sing in 13 languages on it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tIt took a lot of writing and scratching it and sending it to someone who would help me translate and be like, \u201cThis is how you would say this in Japanese. This is how it sounds.\u201d There were so many things that I had to play with and take under consideration. Because it\u2019s not just writing. It\u2019s not just on paper. It has to sound good. There\u2019s a big difference for me when I write, for example, a letter for somebody that I love than if I write a song. It has to have a certain sound, a certain intention of musicality.<\/p>\n
\n\tIt was a big challenge, but it was worth it. It made me grow so much. And I feel like every word on this album, I fought for it, I really wanted it, and then I waited for it, and then it came. It took me a year to write just the lyrics for this album, and then another year of arranging music and going back to the lyrics and retouching. It took a lot of effort searching for the right words: \u201cHow is this not just going to be heard, but also, if you read it, how does it feel?\u201d<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tRosal\u00eda photographed September 24, 2025 at Quixote Studios in Los Angeles. Colleen Allen top and skirt.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAlex G. Harper<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\tThe lyrics read like a novel.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tThere\u2019s a whole intentional structure throughout the album. I was clear that I wanted four movements. I wanted one where it would be more a departure from purity. The second movement, I wanted it to feel more like being in gravity, being friends with the world. The third would be more about grace and hopefully being friends with God. And at the end, the farewell, the return. All of that helped me be very strategic and concise and precise about what songs would go where, how I wanted it to start, how I wanted the journey to go, what lyrics would make sense.<\/p>\n
\n\tEach story, each song is inspired by the story of a saint. I read a lot of hagiographies \u2014 the lives of the saints \u2014 and it helped me expand my understanding of sainthood. Because my background is Catholic from my family, so you understand it through this one [lens]. But then you realize that in other cultures and other religious contexts, it\u2019s another thing. But what surprised me a lot was that there\u2019s a main theme, which is not fearing, which you can find shared across many religions. And I think that\u2019s so powerful because probably the fears that I have, somebody on the other side of the world has the same ones. And for me, there\u2019s beauty in that, in understanding that we might think that we\u2019re different, but we\u2019re not.<\/p>\n
\n\tAll of these songs are very personal, but \u201cFocu \u2019ranni\u201d feels especially so. What was the experience of writing that one?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI found out that there\u2019s this saying by Santa Rosalia de\u00a0Palermo \u2014 she was supposed to get married and then she decided not to; she decided to dedicate her life to God. I thought that something in that was very powerful. I researched her story, and that\u2019s why there\u2019s some Sicilian thrown in that song. It was a challenge to sing in that language. That was a challenging song to do and to sing, but I feel grateful that it exists.<\/p>\n
\n\tYou create a world, and a sisterhood almost, on this album. How does a more playful song like \u201cNovia Robot\u201d fit in?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tThere was this woman who was very inspiring named Sun Bu\u2019er; she dedicated her life to becoming a teacher of the Tao. And the way she lived her life was unconventional at that time. I thought there was something powerful about her story. Apparently, in order to make a journey, she destroyed her face to be able to travel safely. And she had a partner, she had a family, but she decided she wanted to dedicate her life to spirituality. It was so bold and courageous. And at the end of that song, you hear another voice, which is in [Hebrew], that\u2019s inspired by Miriam, this figure who led an entire people and was a rebellious woman and considered close to the idea of \u200b\u200bsainthood in Judaism. So I thought that it was cool to have those two voices, the same way how in opera there are so many voices co-existing. So I thought in that song that could happen with that playfulness, yes, and playing with the sound of how Chinese Mandarin would sound.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe album is so operatic and orchestral. How did you begin to immerse yourself in those styles and find the people that you worked with to deliver that?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tThey\u2019re the people I feel comfortable with, so I love sharing time with them in the studio. For example, I worked on [Lux<\/em> song] \u201cMio Cristo\u201d for months by myself in Miami and L.A., and I delayed the moment when I would share it. I wanted to make a song that was like my version of what an aria could be. So I remember just going to the studio after so much work, after so much back and forth with an Italian translator, and I [had been] improvising on the piano, trying to find melodies, to find the right chords and notes. I went to the studio and I shared it with Dylan [Wiggins], with Noah [Goldstein], with David [Rodriguez], and I remember they were like, \u201cYes. That\u2019s the song. There it is.\u201d So it\u2019s been a lot of isolation on one side \u2014 a lot of writing \u2014 and then on the other side a lot of collective effort in the studio.<\/p>\n\n\tIt\u2019s such a vivid album. How are you plotting out how it will look visually?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tMy sister and I work together a lot. I\u2019m very lucky that I get to just keep playing around and having fun like how we used to when we were kids. Her and I love recommending things to each other, we send books to each other. Having a project together is something I feel so grateful about, the fact that my family is involved \u2014 my mother, my sister, they\u2019re very important people in my life, and I feel like I can share everything with them. And on the visual side, it was just playing around with references and imagination, just trying to think, \u201cWhat can we do with this?\u201d Just playfulness. That\u2019s how I think the best things happen \u2014 out of joy.<\/p>\n
\n\tHave you given any thought yet to what a live performance of this album would look like?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tThoughts are never lacking, but we\u2019ll see. I don\u2019t want to think too much how that would look until that really is happening, if that makes sense. But there\u2019s definitely a lot of creativity with how this could be translated to the stage.<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAlex G. Harper<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\tAt the same time you were working on this, you were filming the third season of Euphoria<\/em>, your first major acting role. Was that difficult?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tIt was very challenging to do both. I was recording the album and producing and checking mixes, everything, while I was shooting Euphoria<\/em>. I had to divide my mind between both and it was also the first time that I was doing something like this \u2014 preparing a character, studying lines. These are new things for me and I\u2019m not used to it. It\u2019s very different from making an album and making music. For some reason, I didn\u2019t completely go crazy, and we\u2019re still here.<\/p>\n\n\tDid any of that experience seep into the album?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t[Euphoria<\/em> creator] Sam [Levinson] and I are both very sensitive people. For some reason, whatever he\u2019s creating for me resonates for this moment. When we were shooting, when we spoke about the [show\u2019s] story, I didn\u2019t know him that well. I really admired his work, but I didn\u2019t know how his mind worked, how he is as an artist. I realized he has so much sensibility and I connected so much with that, not just with his work, but also him as a person.<\/p>\n\n\tHow did that role come about?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI shared that I really wanted to start acting, that it was something that I would love to do. The only thing I had done was [the Pedro] Almod\u00f3var [film Pain and Glory<\/em> in 2019], and when I was 16 I studied theater for a year. I feel like being a musician and being onstage is being a performer, but I had never experienced it as being filmed, learning lines; it\u2019s a very different job. I had done it with Almod\u00f3var, but I was like, \u201cI would love to do it with somebody like Sam, somebody that has a vision as strong as him. Or someone like Sofia Coppola.\u201d So then I heard the third season was happening and I was like, \u201cI would love to audition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tYou had to audition?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tOf course! Because I\u2019m not an actress, and that was really scary. But at the same time, something told me that I was supposed to do it. So I did an audition tape, then met an audition person and then something else, and then it happened.<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tRosal\u00eda photographed September 24, 2025 at Quixote Studios in Los Angeles. Araks bra, Claire Sullivan skirt, Louis Verdad hat.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAlex G. Harper<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\tAt the end of your album, you address the concept of death. Are there things in your life that you worry about not having enough time to do?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tNo. Whenever God decides it\u2019s time to go, it\u2019s time to go. Whatever I have come here to do, I feel like I\u2019m doing; whenever I have to leave, I will leave. That\u2019s how I try to live. I would love to know how it feels to be 100 years old, but that\u2019s not on me to decide. But I would love to keep writing, I would love to keep making music, I would love to keep learning how to cook better, I would love to keep studying \u2014 one day I would love to go to college again and study philosophy or theology \u2014 and I would love to keep traveling. There are so many times that I travel and feel like I haven\u2019t seen enough or haven\u2019t had enough time to just experience places.<\/p>\n
\n\tBut for now, I\u2019m dedicating myself to my mission, which is making albums and performing. And for me, performing is an act for others. I don\u2019t like touring. I like to be onstage and I love my fans, so I do it. But I love being in my home, calm, reading, cooking, going to the gym, lifting weights and going to sleep. Literally, that makes me so happy; I don\u2019t need a lot. (Laughs<\/em>.) When you travel, it\u2019s much harder; psychologically it\u2019s a challenge, always. But I also know that there are other jobs that have so much complexity and challenges, and I feel so grateful that I can be a musician.<\/p>\n\n\tWhat\u2019s the biggest challenge that you feel like comes with this career?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tThe price you pay, the sacrifice, the amount of moments that you lose with your family, with your loved ones. My grandpa died when I was at the Latin Grammys in 2019, and I was about to perform when I found out. I couldn\u2019t even be at the burial. Those things, I\u2019ll have to live with the sadness and the regret of not being there. Those are things that are not the good side of being a musician: always struggling, always being committed to whatever you\u2019re doing, to the people who are there in the audience that night who paid for their ticket to see your performance. Maybe that\u2019s the thing they\u2019re looking forward to the most that week. The price is really high, but this is what I chose, and I\u2019m fully conscious that this is the decision I\u2019ve made.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn releasing this album, what would success look like for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tSuccess, for me, is freedom. And I felt all the freedom that I could imagine or hope for throughout this process. That\u2019s all I wanted. I wanted to be able to pour what was inside, outside. And those inspirations, those ideas, make them into songs. I was able to do that, and I will not ask for more.<\/p>\n
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