Ana Mena (Estepona, 1997) is undoubtedly one of the urban pop figures of the momentsince it accumulates millions of listeners and views with a large part of its repertoire.
The 26-year-old singer from Malaga, who debuted in 2016 with the single ‘I’m not like you believe’ and has collaborated with great artists such as Becky G, Carlos Baute, Rocco Hunt, De La Guetto, Maldita Nerea, Emilia Mernes and CNCO, has just to release his new album ‘Bellodrama’, 16 songs that take us back to the melodies of the 50s and 60s.
1. His beginnings on TV and music
She started taking music classes when she was 8 years old and a year later, in 2006, she won the television contest ‘Veo Veo’, where he showed that singing and dancing was in his blood. In 2009, she starred in the Antena 3 miniseries ‘Marisol, la película’, a project based on the life of Pepa Flores. Later, what made her gain great popularity was her participation in the ‘My Camp Rock 2’ contest in 2010, in which she won again.
In 2010, at the age of 13, her great role came from Pedro Almodóvar in ‘La piel que habito’, where she played the daughter of Antonio Banderas. From there he participated in ‘El número 1’, ‘talent show’ on Antena 3, which led him to be in the cast of the series ‘Vive cantando’ (2013)’, in which he starred in a musical performance.
Since she was very little, Mena showed her passion for music and theThe first time he sang he did it by the hand of Niña Pastori.
2. Leap into the music industry
after some singing appearances on Disney Channel, decided to make the big solo leap into the music industry in 2016 with ‘I’m not like you think’, which made it the best valued artist of the moment and the most listened to song in Spain for fifteen days.
Little by little he was releasing songs with more or less success, until he went to try his luck in Italy and released ‘D’estate non vale’ with Italian rapper Fred De Palma. The song swept the charts. and a year later, they repeated and released ‘Una volta ancora’. After another huge hit, the duo released his third song: ‘Se iluminaba’, this time in Spanish. In Italy it was positioned among the most listened to songs during confinement.
In it In the summer of 2020, the Andalusian vocalist released ‘A un paso dalla luna’ with Rocco Hunt, that they published in Spanish and that was placed among the five most important issues in the country at number four.
In May of last year, he announced the launch of ‘Un bacio all’improvviso’, again with Hunt, and in October he launched another collaboration with the Italian Federico Rossi. In 2021 she became the most listened to national artist in Spain ahead of Rosalía.
3. Her stunning makeover
Since she began to sing on stage until today, it is obvious that the singer has undergone a radical physical change. In fact, her transformation has been the subject of debate in many media, which ensure that before he had more oval eyes, a bigger nose and much thinner lipsthat is why it is presumed that the artist has resorted to some aesthetic retouching.
Although she has never ruled on this matter, the first obvious difference is that her long brown hair has become blonde. In addition, his nose is now more stylized, which probably led to a rhinoplasty. Also, it could have been subjected to a blepharoplasty, minor cosmetic surgery to remove excess skin from the eyelids for a more expressive look. Her lips, which were thin before, now look much fuller, this could be due to several sessions with hyaluronic acid injections.
Finally, to define the face, some specialists point out that the singer has undergone a bichectomy, so fashionable among celebrities, that It consists of the extirpation of the Bichat fat bags that are on the cheeks, in order to reduce excess fat.
4. Participation in the Sanremo Song Festival
Ana Mena participated in February 2022 in the Sanremo Song Festival of Italy, from which the great winners of Eurovision 2021 came out the previous year, the rock group Maneskin.
The malagueña, which performed ‘Duecentomila ore’, was the penultimate in the final classification of the contest, but she was equally happy to have been able to fulfill her dream of performing at the Ariston Theater as part of the musical celebration she saw as a child with her parents.
“We reached the final, time flew by and it was a unique adventure. For this last performance I will give 100% but, above all, I will have the most fun,” Mena wrote in an Instagram post.
A few minutes after his performance, he told RaiRadio: “It is being a beautiful, magical experience, you can breathe a beautiful atmosphere…”, said.
And it is that his attachment to Italy goes much further. In fact, the woman from Malaga established her residence in Milan a few months ago. “I’m going to spend many months there, although I’m going to be coming and going,” she revealed in an interview.
Some media have claimed that his frequent travels have a lot to do with her romance with the Malaga soccer player Brahím Díaz, the AC Milan soccer player with whom they have been related since a year ago they were photographed together through the streets of Madrid.
5. An anecdotal mishap on stage
Ana Mena suffered almost a year ago, last April a setback with his wardrobe during his performance at the WiZink Center in Madrid during Los40’s Primavera Pop 2022.
“My skirt has fallen and I have been left in my panties on stage”, explained the singer on her Instagram account, which has recently exceeded one million followers.
“There has been a moment when I say: what do I do? I have looked down like that and host. Oh well, It has been fun because the public has also reacted with affection”, he concluded.
The artist, instead of being paralyzed and blushing, continued with her performance in the most natural way, as if nothing had happened to the screams of the public. Luckily, she took the situation with a great sense of humor and said goodbye to her saying: “And if that another day I put a safety pin ”.
“I had to share this moment with you because It’s literally been one of the funniest and craziest things that’s ever happened to me on stage. It’s happened to me twice, once with Nil Moliner and the other singing ‘Música ligera’, which is a very suitable song to reveal”, he explained with a laugh.
On this occasion, her reaction to being left without a skirt in the middle of the concert also went viralas expected.
6. He publishes his second ‘Bellodrama’
In one of the best moments of her career, the singer from Malaga has just launched ‘Bellodrama’, his second studio album and with a concert tour throughout the country.
After five years without releasing an album, he returns with 15 songs that talk about love and heartbreak. “It is the enjoyment of melancholy”, says the artist.
Before the release, he had already advanced some songs like ‘Música ligera’ or ‘LAS 12’, but he had not released any record work since 2018, when he released ‘Index’.
During the promotion of the album, Mena has assured that it is about “a tribute to the pop that he likes the most”, with songs that refer to the melodies of the 60s and 70s, but “in ‘Bellodrama’ there is also room for ballads, urban rhythms and even bachata”, he affirms.
In this sense, he points out that for his second album he has been inspired by the sounds of different influential artists. “From Katy Perry, to La Oreja de Van Gogh, passing through Luis Miguel”. For the lyrics of the songs on this new album, created between Spain and Italy, She confesses that, in addition to her own personal experiences, she has been inspired by the stories of the people around her.
As Mena has announced on Twitter, the ‘Bellodrama Tour’ will begin on April 15 in A Coruña, and will end on September 9 at the Wizink Centerin Madrid, but will also pass through Barcelona, Valencia and Valladolid.