Spanish singer-songwriter Rosalía performed two songs from her acclaimed album, Lux, on Saturday Night Live, Rolling Stone reports.
Rosalía, who trained with a professional ballerina to prepare for the choreography on her tour for Lux, appeared to sing all of “Reliquia” while on her toes, as shadows of orchestral musicians were cast on the white curtain behind her.
“Magnolias,” the 18th and final song on Lux, Rosalía sang in the rain, dressed in white, against a dark backdrop.
In a five-star review, Rolling Stone said the album “sounds like absolutely nothing else in music right now, and it’s an album no other pop star could have made.” After 2022’s Motomami and El Mal Querer four years prior, Lux “feels like her most astonishing offer yet, packed with history and decades of training that let her tie classical sounds, opera references, and 14 different languages into one gorgeous, gutting package that feels like a truly timeless work of art.”
The hour-long, four-movement album, Rosalía said in a press release announcing it last year, is “a widescreen emotional arc of feminine mystique, transformation, and spirituality—moving between intimacy and operatic scale to create a radiant world where sound, language, and culture fuse as one.”
The 34-year-old artist said the songs were inspired by learning about saints.
