After touring the world supporting Kali Úchis as her musical director, background vocalist and guitarist while opening for Lana Del Rey in 2018, Angélica Rahe set off to establish herself as a solo artist. In 2020, after a move from LA to Austin, the Spanish-American singer-songwriter delivered "REINA", a debut album that was called "intoxicatingly smooth" and "challenges what you think you know about Spanish music."

While the album was followed by a global pandemic that forced cancellation of her 20-city tour, Rahe used the time to expand her musicianship and artistry. The resulting work, her follow-up album "autorretrato" (self portrait), showcases an artist primed for a breakout.

It's not only Rahe's sultry vocals leading the way this time, and her Spanish guitar has been replaced by uptempo production and low-end, on songs like "Soy Una Obra de Arte" and "Semillas." The end product is a follow-up album that maintains the sensuality that makes Rahe so special as a vocalist while picking up the cinematic production that could lead to a real breakout year for the artist who produced and engineered all the songs on the album. The album also features Adrian Quesada of Black Pumas ("Ancestros") on guitar, Soft Glas ("Sueño Fugaz"), and jaw-dropping verses by AC Metta of Puerto Rican duo Cometta and Dallas rapper Cameron McCloud on "Detrás de la Cortina," and Megz Kelli of Austin, TX duo Magna Carda on the final track, "Comin' Back to Home."

“Written, recorded, and produced alone in her bedroom studio, Autorretrato thrives in simplicity. Like a lingering touch, warm embrace, or longing look, her sophomore record swells in a vulnerable vastness of tactile and sensual intimacies, wave after wave.” - Austin Chronicle (read the album review here)