Five Fun Facts with Rizha
21-year-old Rizha will release a new single soon, a downtempo nostalgia-filled tune with arcade-infused effects in the vein of Lorde and Billie Eilish. Fresh off recent singles "Fever Dream" featuring DEVA and "Live The Weekend" featuring GIRLI, Rizha is poised for international pop stardom. The alternative electro-pop artist recently hosted her first-ever global streaming concert live at Club Malasaña in Madrid via DICE for her fans in Europe, Latin America and the U.S. The singer and actress gave us five minutes of her time for our signature Five Fun Facts, so let's do this - vamos!
In case you missed it, you can check out our Q&A with her HERE.
I take inspiration from many artists, philosophers, and some friends and family members, but I wouldn't consider any of them a role model. People are people, and I couldn't fully agree with any of them. I might admire their talent, their emotional intelligence, passion, cheerfulness. I take what I like the most from each one of them. Idolizing people is very dehumanizing and damaging to your mental health.
The first song I fully finished was on guitar when I was 10. I remember playing it to my cousin. She really liked it and sang it for a few days. That was the first time I thought to myself, "Shit, I can actually do this". I might release that song at some point. I actually really like it.
I think the most challenging thing about acting for me is that it's not my script, and I can't fully decide what happens to my character or what she thinks or says or why she thinks the way she does or says what she says. I do feel a little trapped acting. But I think it's a wonderful thing to get to embody someone else. You get to live second-hand experiences and learn a lot.
Death fascinates and scares me at the same time. The one thing I'm truly afraid of is being on my deathbed, feeling like I didn't live enough. I refuse to accept that when we die, it all does indeed end, and there's no afterlife of some sort. All of the data stored in my brain, my memories, feelings, songs I never produced, ideas, it all will vanish forever. I wish I could somehow record my entire life so that my friends or, if I have any children, can see it, kind of like a movie. But on the other hand, it's impossible to truly know if any of this is even real in the first place. Maybe we die and reincarnate, or wake up to a friend saying, "how was your trip?" or maybe we live in the matrix…Anyways I'm a solipsist, don't listen to me. Realism is way more practical to everyday life. But any human that tells you they know what will happen after you die is bullshitting you.
People tend to think that I sing in English to grow outside of Spain, but many of my best friends are native or really, really fluent, so we speak in English most of the time. Plus, all the content I consume, YouTube, Netflix, social media-wise, is in English. I think that's why I'm so comfortable expressing myself that way. I don't know, dude, it's just another language, I don't think it's that big of a deal, but there are people out there really trying to bully people for knowing more than one language. What the actual fuck.
- Rizha
Written by Michael Menachem
Photo courtesy of Nacional Records