At age 17, Mariana de Miguel told her parents she was going to pursue music full-time. She started a band fresh out of high school, then found her footing in Mexico’s R&B scene, embryonic at the time. “My main goal with this genre and what I’m doing is to open up the path for other artists to really create the unseen,” she says, sitting atop a yellow satin cloth at Maria Hernandez Park in Brooklyn. She’s processing the past few years out loud, the night before her NYC tour stop at the Knitting Factory.
a song about tortured memories of an all too familiar infidelity. With these preludes, de Miguel expands on the sound she established on her EPs, cementing herself as an R&B reina. We talked about her upcoming work, how her collaboration with Cuco happened, and making room for Mexican artists on the rise.
Like Bowie, your fashion sense is unique and expressive. How did you pinpoint what and who you wanted Girl Ultra to be? And how do you separate the two in your personal life? Well, I grew up listening to it as you say, without knowing it was R&B. But we actually have a lot of R&B infiltrations in our pop music. Like there was this duo called Sin Banderas, and they definitely made R&B. They had R&B progressions and melodies and there was not an R&B path for Latin American or Mexican projects—it was just “pop music.
When I started making this album, it was a very bright time for me—as a creative, as a persona, as a human being. It was like, oh! Like a stride of brightness. I was writing like crazy and making music with my friends. And it’s not finished yet, but by the end of this album a lot of things [will have] changed. I reconnected with a lot of people. I love connections. And there were like seven tracks as a base. The first few I made when I was at my highest, in my zone.
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