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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
Suzy Exposito

'Rosalía is the truth': How a Spanish flamenco singer defied convention and rewired pop

MEXICO CITY — "It was like I almost drowned!"

Inside one of Mexico City's posh five-star hotels, Rosalía sinks into a cushy office chair across from me, already winded on the third day of her Latin American tour, in support of her universally acclaimed album, "Motomami."

If it wasn't from the altitude sickness that reared its head during her first night in Mexico — "I thought I needed an oxygen tank," she said — it was from the reception the 29-year-old Spanish pop star received inside the capital city's Benito Juárez International Airport, where she was ambushed by a swarm of screaming fans and photographers.

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