Aitana, just like that, without a surname, has become a superstar in just a few years. On Instagram, for example, she has almost 4 million followers. On Tiktok, more than 24 million. On Spotify, almost 11 million monthly listeners. And now, having just celebrated her 25th birthday, she seems ready to continue making her way internationally in music.
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Aitana Ocaña Dorado was born on June 27, 1999 in Barcelona, Spain. Since she was little, music was present in her life: she began playing the piano at an early age and, at the age of 12, she awakened her passion for singing. This inclination grew during her adolescence, and in 2014 she began uploading cover songs to YouTube and, later, composing her own songs. Some of these she managed to record in the studio, such as Laws about me (2015).
Aitana combined this vocation with her studies and, after finishing high school with an emphasis on visual arts, she had in mind to study design… But music, her true goal, was seen as her best possibility at that time.
Aitana combined this vocation with her studies and, after finishing high school with an emphasis on visual arts, she had in mind to study design…
After completing the entrance exams to the University in Madrid, in 2017, she appeared at the castings of a famous reality show, Triumph operation (O.T.), which were held there and she was selected. From the beginning, Aitana stood out among the public, being one of the favourites and reaching the final, where she finished second.
However, years later he admitted that he did not expect the success that would come later: “I took it as a game. ‘How fun this is and how much I am going to learn!’ I thought,” he told 20 Minutos. “What I did not know was what was going to come next,” he added, and confessed to what extent it had affected him: “Of course I had to go to therapy to understand what was happening to me and where I wanted to go.” And that program was a before and after in his life.
In addition to the covers of well-known songs that he performed during his OT participation, he left there with two original songs under his arm, It burns and The badThis last song, together with his partner Ana Guerra, was an international success. In addition, both songs were close to being selected as the song for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Solo career
Her first single, Telephone (2018), was quite successful and the young woman released a new version with Lele Pons. She also covered Lo Malo in a collaboration in which Tini Stoessel and Greeicy Rendón joined her and Ana Guerra.
After leaving the competition, Aitana began to work on her solo career. Her first single, Phone (2018), was quite successful and the young woman released a new version with Lele Pons. She also covered The bad in a collaboration in which Tini Stoessel and Greeicy Rendón joined her and Ana Guerra.
At the end of that year, Aitana released her debut EP, Trailerr. The simple You are going to stayIt was a huge success and he later included it on his first album, Spoiler (2019), from which the singles also came With honey on your lips, I stay and nothing goes wrong.
Since then, what began in O.T. 2017, she has cultivated it alone and with great success. Her following albums, 11 Reasons (2020) and Alpha (2023) have established her as one of the most relevant Spanish singers internationally and she has been on tour throughout Latin America.
In fact, his intention is to continue growing abroad: “I have to start internationalizing myself, continue going through Latin America, go to more places, work with more artists and producers from the US, I’m already doing it,” he confessed in an interview with GQ at the beginning of the year.
I have to start going international, keep going through Latin America, go to more places, work with more artists and producers from the US, I’m already working on it.
A new album from him will be out very soon: “my fourth studio album will be released in 2025,” he promises. And he assures that “it will be pop and will have a mix between 11 reasons and Alphabut without it having anything to do with them.”
Aitana has also ventured into acting in series such as La Última (2022), on Disney+, and in the Netflix film Pared con pared (2024), she has been a coach for The voice Kids and published his own book of illustrations, The ink of my eyes (2018).
In the middle of the tour, the artist had sold out in just three days until the Santiago Bernabéu stadium in Madrid, where she will perform on December 28. Everything indicates that she is ready to continue growing in music, since she will celebrate her 25th birthday doing what she was born to do: succeed.
Nora Cifunentes
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