Urban music has managed to find some of its great international references in Spain. One of the most successful in recent years is the Canarian Ptazetawhich in recent years has been popularly nicknamed «the queen of the ‘feats’»which has allowed him to accumulate millions of views on his streaming accounts.
Since he rose to fame in 2020 thanks to the song ‘Mommy’the young woman has since collaborated with some of the best-known artists on the Hispanic scene, including some such as Nicki Nicole, Emilia Mernes, Aitana, Bizarrap or Lola Índigo. His latest success, ‘5 Babies’in which he sings alongside Kim Loaiza, Fariana, Bellakath and Yami Safdie, already has more than 12 million views on YouTube.
Following in the wake of its success, Ptazeta visits this Monday ‘The Anthill’Pablo Motos’ program, to talk about his professional career and your new projects as an artist. However, the truth is that, beyond her staunchest fans, few people know the Canarian: who really is Ptazeta? We tell you everything you need to know about the singer who turns everything she touches into gold.
Ptazeta’s real name and his contact with music
Under the pseudonym Ptazeta, Zuleima del Pino González González (Las Palmas, 1998) has managed to make a name for himself in the world of music in recent years. The origin of this stage name has a lot to do with her social networks, where her friends have always known her under this nickname: «I have always had it as a username on Instagram. When I did it I loved the word. Cigar ‘Peta’ and Zuleima’s ‘zeta’and that’s what I stayed with,” he said years later.
His love for music was born during his first years of life. Being just a girl, the Canarian singer began to play the trumpetalthough it took a few years until he started creating his own music: «I have always liked to rap, but I found myself incapable of improvising. I went through a performing arts high school and there I had a classmate who was all the time with her cell phone in her ear, rapping, telling everything that was happening at the institute, and she encouraged me a lot, but I I felt totally incapacitated. Until my friends and I got the bug of improvisation,” he recalled in an interview about his first contact with the urban scene.
From there, Zuleima has become a whole female reference for Spanish music, but also for the LGTBI collective. The singer from Las Palmas has never ignored her homosexualityalthough he assumes that things can always change in a society like the one we live in: «I always say the same thing: I Today my name is Zuleima del Pino González and I am lesbian. Tomorrow I don’t know if my name will be Zuleima, if I will be a lesbian, if I will be on the moon or if I will want to go to Mars. I am in favor of change in peopleWe are changing beings, we must evolve, let ourselves be. In one year we can think one thing and another year think another, and that’s fine,” he said a few months ago in an interview for ABC.
The meaning of Ptazeta tattoos
If there is something that stands out at first glance about Ptazeta, it is his striking tattoos. The singer has a characteristic tattoo of a snake on the forehead that has not gone unnoticed by anyone, to which are added, among others, a great Gorgon (Medusa) on the chest, a skull on the armthe sketch of a car on his right thigh and a large scorpion.
All kinds of meanings are hidden behind these ink drawings engraved on their skin. «I have many tattoos because I like thembut then it is true that I always have my family present. My mother, my grandmother, my brother, my brother’s father, my grandfatherall of that for me present,” he explained in an interview for Marca.
In addition to this, the Canarian artist also claims to have “an extreme connection with snakes”which has been captured in his most characteristic tattoos. The origin of the most striking of these, the one on his forehead, has a lot to do with the intention of focus as much as possible on your artistic career: «The truth is that I jumped into the pool, I had been thinking about it for many years because the truth is that a tattoo here [en la frente] I liked it a lot, but of course, working as a waitress… How are you going to get a snake on your forehead? I thought ‘well, if one day I have to go back to Mercadona, nothing happens’,” he explained in an interview for ‘yu Don’t miss anything’.
His relationship with Bizarrap and the origin of their collaboration
Before becoming the queen of the ‘feats’, Ptazeta had tried her luck in other areas of music. The Canary Islander began her musical career in world of freestyle and participated in different competitions cock fightsmaking a name for himself in the urban environment of his homeland. when it arrived the pandemicZuleima decided to take advantage of the opportunity and began sharing her own creations on social networks. From that decision was born ‘Mommy’a collaboration with one of his most faithful friends, the rapper Juackowhich earned him national fame.
However, his true breakout would come from the hand of one of the most prestigious producers in the world, Gonzalo Julián Conde, better known as Bizarre. It was on October 7, 2021 when the young Canarian rapper, whose name had resonated little until then, became the protagonist of the session number 45 of the Argentine artist. A hit that allowed her to go from being unknown to the public to re-emerging as the great promise of the Spanish urban panorama.
Ptazeta spoke about this collaboration in an interview for Marca, in which he explained how the first contacts with the famous producer had arisen: «A piece of mine went viral on Twitter and he contacted mebut of course, I didn’t have a song or anything, nor did I know that I was going to dedicate myself to music or anything,” explained the Canarian artist.
At that moment, everything seemed like a promise that they would meet again, and so they did. A few months after confirming her musical success, both contacted again and that was when the rapper He traveled to Argentina to record in his studio the song, which has accumulated 126 million views almost three years later.