Arca is a Venezuelan transgender artist, songwriter, record producer and DJ. Unlike most of the world's artists, Arka is not so easy to categorize. The performer coolly deconstructs hip-hop, pop and electronica, and also sings sensual ballads in Spanish. Arka has produced for many music giants.
The transgender singer calls her music "speculation". With the help of musical works, she can build any hypotheses about how this world could look like. She skillfully plays with her listeners. Her voice seems to be either male or female. Sometimes it seems that an alien individual takes part in the recording of compositions.
Childhood and youth Alejandra Gersi
The artist's date of birth is October 14, 1989. Alejandra Guersi was born in Caracas (Venezuela). For some time, she lived in Connecticut with her family.
It is not difficult to guess that Alejandra experienced a passionate love for music. The piano is the first musical instrument that succumbed to the talented artist. True, in her later interviews, Gersi managed to tell that she did not feel great love for sitting at a keyboard instrument.
Having mastered several programs, she began to create beats. It was at that time that Alejandra reveled in electronic music. As a teenager, Gersi adopted the creative pseudonym Nuuro and began to "nag" electro-pop.
In her early work, the artist recorded almost all musical works in English. Alejandra tried to use gender-neutral terms like "honey" or "dear". For a long time, she did not dare to voice her own orientation. It's just that the town where Gersi lived was not the safest place for a gay.
When she realized that she was betraying herself by wanting to hide her own orientation, she decided to end the Nuuro project forever. Within the framework of this project, Alejandra could not reveal her full creative potential. She has accumulated a lot of interesting ideas, and she wanted to share them with music lovers.
Arca's creative path
A year before coming of age, Alejandra makes a serious decision. The artist feels “suffocation” and stiffness from being in her hometown, so she packs her bags and moves to colorful New York.
She fulfilled a small dream - she applied to an art school. Alejandra hung out a lot and learned the delights of nightlife. A couple of years later, a new musical project was launched, which was called Arca.
She quickly found her “place in the sun. Since 2011, Alejandra has collaborated with Mickey Blanco and Kelela writing beats for artists. Arka did not forget about her own discography, delighting fans with high-quality electronics and trendy sound.
Soon she noticed Kanye West. The rap artist turned to the artist with a request to send him some works. Arka attached her strangest developments to the message. Kanye liked what he heard. The rapper invited Arka to work on his Yeezus LP.
West's album was adorned with powerful beats and distortions. By the way, the presented disc is still called the most experimental LP in the history of the American singer (as of 2021).
Reference: Distortion is a sound effect that is achieved directly by distorting the signal by its “hard” amplitude limitation.
After a successful collab with a world-class star, Ark was talked about in a completely different way. She then collaborated with FKA Twigs, Björk, and later with Frank Ocean and singer Rosalia.
Presentation of the debut album Xen
In 2014, the debut LP of the singer was released. The collection was called Xen. The disc made a proper impression on many music lovers, fans and music critics. The album has been compared to "a breath of fresh air". The collection was clean, fresh and bold. The original sound added individuality to the tracks. The compilation was recorded in the style of Changa Tuki.
Reference: Changa Tuki is a musical genre borrowed from electronic music. It originated in Caracas (Venezuela), in the early 1990s.
On the wave of popularity, the premiere of another successful record took place. We are talking about the collection Mutant. By the way, the musical works included in the collection turned out to be even more aggressive and contrasting. Arka really managed to create an original sound.
In 2017, she presented another "tasty" album. Recall that this is the third studio work of the singer. The collection was named Arca of the same name. The melancholic tracks included in the disc are perfectly intertwined and make you think about the great. The songs are clearly audible academic sound, seasoned with electronics.
This LP is also interesting because it contains several ballads that Arka recorded in her native Spanish. On the two previous collections, Alejandra's voice did not sound so legible. Sometimes it goes completely into noise.
Reference: Noise is a musical genre that uses sounds, often of artificial and man-made origin.
Arch: details of the artist's personal life
Several sources have information that the transgender singer is in a relationship with a man named Carlos Sáez. In social networks, Carlos does have some compromising pictures.
Note that after Arka finally moved to Barcelona, she came out as a non-binary person. She prefers she or it, but not they.
Interesting facts about Arca
- Longplay Xen is named after one of the artist's early creative pseudonyms.
- As a teenager, she denied her homosexuality.
- The original name of the record "Arca" - "Reverie".
Arca: our days
At the beginning of 2020, the premiere of the track @@@@@ took place, which lasts more than an hour. Arka, for reasons that are not entirely clear, decided to return to noise. Many of her fans commented that it was "torturous music". But, one way or another, the artist's experiment was positively received by her audience.
In the wake of popularity, the 4th studio album premiered on the XL Recordings label. Longplay was called KiCk i. The collection included 3 singles - Nonbinary, Time, KLK (featuring Rosalia) and Mequetrefe. In the sunset of 2020, she presented the remix EP Riquiquí;Bronze-Instances (1-100).
2021 was not left without musical novelties. So, Arka pleased the “fans” with the release of Madre mini-album. Note that the collection was headed by 4 musical compositions.
In addition, she announced the release of the fourth part of kick iiii. It is scheduled for December 3, 2021. Initially, the singer wanted to release all three LPs on that day.
At the end of November 2021, the transgender singer posed for the cover of Vogue. She became the heroine of the new issue of the Mexican version of the magazine. Frames of the photo shoot appeared in the Instragram account of Vogue.
