Inside The Multi-Language Album That Defined Rosalia’s Career

Rosalía’s, latest album, “Lux,” enters a bold new era, merging orchestral pop, faith, and feminine storytelling.

Rosalia is a Spanish singer-songwriter who rose to fame for redefining the sounds of flamenco by fusing it with pop and hip-hop influences.

In 2019, Rosalia’s career began to rise to fame when she collaborated with J Balvin on “Con Altura,” but it was her artistry that captured fans, particularly in the images she portrays throughout her music videos.  In the music video for “Con Altura,” Rosalia danced on a private jet, making it the most-watched global YouTube video of 2019 by a female artist and breaking the one billion-view mark in less than six months after its release.

After which she won two Latin Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Album and Album of the Year for “El Mal Querer,” becoming the first female artist to win the Latin Grammy for Album of the Year since 2006, and Best Urban Song for “Con Altura.”

Over the years, Rosalia earned additional awards and continued to collaborate with other notable artists, including Bad Bunny, Daddy Yankee, Travis Scott, Billie Eilish, and The Weeknd, and appeared in Cardi B’s video for “WAP,” featuring Meghan Thee Stallion.

Rosalia’s latest work, ” Lux,” is her fourth studio album, released in November 2025, composed by the London Symphony Orchestra. The album is an orchestral-pop album about the feminine divine, faith, and brutalities of love, defining her career, featuring 14 songs in different languages.

Rosalia spent more than two years working on the album, much of it devoted to learning to write and sing in other languages such as Catalan, English, Latin, Sicilian, Ukrainian, Arabic, German, and many more, as well as studying hagiographies, biographies of saints, and ecclesiastical leaders.

15 of the 18 songs were inspired by the stories of female saints and mystics, one of the reasons for all the different languages.

“Many of these saints were nuns, and I found it so amazing to learn about their lives, learn about how they would express themselves,” said Rosalia, with Vogue. “They would have an experience of God, and they would explain it with words. Just speaking. It was another way of knowledge, no? Another way of understanding,” she added.

The album also references the Bible, the Quran, the Vedas, the oldest and most sacred scriptures of Hinduism, and the Therigatha, an ancient Buddhist scripture. Along with citation fromGravity and Grace by Simone Weil and Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum, paraphrased quotes by the Spanish writer Alana S. Portero, the Ukraine-born Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector, and David Lynch, and praises Chris Kraus’s genre-bending novel-slash-memoir about erotic obsession, I Love Dick.

Lux has a symphonic structure where 18 tracks are divided into four movements: life, love, violence, and religion, yet unfold more like an opera.

“Lux” became Spotify’s most played album the week of its release, overtaking Taylor Swift’s “The Life of a Showgirl,” as well as making Rosalia the first artist to have a No.1 record across five Billboard album charts simultaneously, consisting of the following categories: Latin, Latin Pop, Classical, Classical Crossover, and World.

In the cover art for “Lux,” Rosalia wears a white headpiece that resembles a nun’s designed by Maison Margiela with her torso constrained by a white garment, symbolizing feminine spirituality.

“Nowadays a lot of people reference celebrities, and celebrities reference celebrities. I prefer to reference saints,” said Rosalia.

With “Lux” marking a defining chapter in Rosalia’s career, she is set to expand her artistry beyond music with an upcoming role starring in HBO’S Euphoria upcoming season and a world tour that is yet to captivate fans everywhere.

Through “Lux,” Rosalia is not just a global pop star, but a visionary artist continuing to redefine what modern music can sound, look, or feel like.

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