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Vogue
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Vogue
María Zardoya, Frontwoman of The Marías, Loves Natural Beauty with a Bit of Edge
María Zardoya, lead singer of The Marías, wants you to know that what you see is what you get. 'There's not much difference between performance María and normal María,' she tells me one day over Zoom. When it comes to beauty, that means a touch of gloss, blush on the apples of her cheeks, and most importantly—a bit of smudgy eyeliner. 'I use the same makeup on and off the stage,' she adds. 'Just try to keep things natural, fresh, and sometimes a little grungy.' To get her signature look, Zardoya's loving YSL Beauty—a fandom that started when she was in high school. 'I always loved visiting my brother and sister-in-law in New York because they had the nicest things,' she says. 'When I stayed in their apartment in Manhattan, I felt so chic and cool. And she'd let me use her makeup, like this gold wand that was a highlighter and concealer duo. It was magic.' Of course, that gold wand was the iconic, much-loved Touche Éclat. Today, she's using the same products (along with newer launches like the Candy Glaze Lip Gloss Stick and Make Me Blush) to get the look and has been named a YSL Maker. It's the Parisian brand's balance of sophistication and edge that really speaks to Zardoya, both as an artist and a person. It's something that allows her to truly be herself. 'I am trying to find the balance between being as authentic and real with fans as possible, but at the same time retaining a part of who I am for myself,' she reflects. 'Sometimes I am worried that if I give too much of who I am, then I will feel too judged. I'm not playing a character. It's all about balance, and I am trying to find that balance.'
Chicago Tribune
04-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Mexican band Latin Mafia helps carry the flag for Latin music at this summer's Lollapalooza
On the last night of Lollapalooza Sunday, festival goers had a choice to make: A$AP Rocky, Sabrina Carpenter or Latin Mafia. Latin Mafia, formed in 2021, is a Mexican indie pop band of three brothers, twins Milton and Emilio and Mike de la Rosa. Their debut Lollapalooza performance on the Grove stage in Grant Park was, in a word, hectic: Milton and Emilio each ripped off their shirts, one of them scaled the stage's scaffolding and the other threw himself into the crowd. The band brought out Omar Apollo, a Mexican American alternative artist, to join the ruckus. Latin Mafia's appearance at Lollapalooza felt, to many, like a tribute to Latin music. The band, after all, is not nearly as famous as 2023 headliner Karol G, who, along with artists like Bad Bunny, have brought Latin artists more of a mainstream following in the United States over the last few years. Alongside The Marías, Young Miko and Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso, the de la Rosa brothers made sure that Latin music was heard at this summer's festival. Many of their fans, though, said they wished that Lollapalooza organizers C3 Presents could do more to highlight Spanish-language performers — especially given that Latino and Hispanic people make up nearly 30% of Chicago's population. 'Being Mexican, it's awesome to see artists that are also Mexican on stage,' said Giselle, a 26-year-old from Chicago who asked to use only her first name. 'I wish that there was more, because there's good music being made in our community, and I wish that they were given the spotlight a little more.' Chicago residents Jose Perez, 38, and Kat Diaz, 30, worked a bar at Lollapalooza but managed to make it to Latin Mafia's and Young Miko's performances. They have both worked Sueños, too, the Latin music festival earlier in the summer in Grant Park also organized by C3 Presents. While Sueños gives Chicagoans the opportunity to celebrate Latin music, Perez and Diaz both pointed out that Lollapalooza draws in a much bigger crowd and therefore provides more exposure for its performers. 'To have a platform here for Latin music would be huge, not only for Latinos, but for the general population, because it's growing so much,' Perez said. Noah Estrada, 27, who lives in San Diego County, has been to a number of music festivals over the years, including Coachella in Southern California, Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas and Portola in San Francisco. Estrada has noticed that these big festivals tend to bring out the same Latin performers, as if they 'travel in packs.' 'It's whatever's trending that year,' he said. 'You'll get The Marías and some of these other big Latin names together all at once, instead of on their own.' (María Zardoya, lead singer of The Marías, was born in Puerto Rico and often incorporates Spanish into her songs). Latin Mafia, for instance, performed at Coachella in 2024. Estrada appreciates how they use synthesizers in their unique sound, and being half-Mexican, he has a bit of a sentimental reason for choosing the band to be his Lollapalooza closer. The crowd that gathered to hear Latin Mafia took over The Grove, shouting excitedly in Spanish when Milton or Emilio urged them on. Almost everything the band members said or sang during their show was in Spanish, which didn't seem to pose a language barrier for anyone in the crowd. Jailine Cortez, Samantha Quiroga and Natalie Reyes, who are all 26 and live in Chicago, bought tickets just for Sunday. Reyes and Quiroga have been to Sueños several times, but never Lollapalooza, until now, because it didn't seem to have much of a draw for Latin music fans. As Latin Mafia sang its final number, the brothers passed around a Mexican flag. 'I love to see Mexican representation anywhere in the world,' Giselle said. 'It makes me so proud.' As he walked up and down the stage, singing in melodic Spanish, one of the twins wrapped the flag around his shoulders. The red, white and green trailed behind him like a cape.
Yahoo
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Benny Blanco Found Love and Wants the Same for You: 'Don't Settle"
Benny Blanco is so ready to be a wife guy. So much so that when I approach his Beverly Hills abode—a Tuscan-style home where he's lived the past six years solo, cushioned by hedges and hot pink bougainvillea flowers—the award-winning songwriter-producer greets me after his workout wearing floral gym shorts, plus a tie-dye T-shirt bearing a portrait of himself and his pop star fiancée, Selena Gomez, printed across the chest. 'It was a gift from my friend Patrick,' says Blanco, 37. 'I don't know what's wrong with me.'Our interview takes place inside his personal movie theater, where the couch and walls are equally swathed in plush red velvet upholstery. A nearby candy bar is stocked with M&M'S, Skittles, and a myriad of other sweet treats. Yet Blanco will soon frequent his meticulously curated home much less; just after announcing their engagement in December 2024, he and Gomez purchased a Spanish-style estate in the Hills, where he'll have an abundance of space to work his magic in—'magic' as in interior decorating.'I love making a house my own,' he says. 'I'm not in there with the staple gun, but I'm in there with tchotchkes and a lot of creativity and heart. I hate it when you go into a person's house and you're like, 'Ooh, it feels like nobody lives here!' I don't want to be scared to sit down on shit.' In March, Blanco and Gomez released their joint album, I Said I Love You First, a collection of saccharine pop vignettes devised in a guest room in Blanco's home and primarily sung by Gomez in her signature sad-girl dulcet tones. The couple got additional help from such friends as Charli XCX in the brattified hyper-pop track 'Bluest Flame,' Gracie Abrams in the pop-punk fizz of 'Call Me When You Breakup,' and María Zardoya (of The Marías) in 'Ojos Tristes,' which interpolates a 1981 ballad by the enigmatic Spanish chanteuse, Jeanette. The project came about organically, says Blanco, after many romantic moments spent sharing records. The two have bonded over classics by Aretha Franklin—'One Step Ahead' is the couple's favorite—and Taylor Swift, who happens to be one of Gomez's longtime pals.'In the car, we'll have our little Swiftie moment,' he says. 'She's a true Swiftie, through and through. Then she got me on the train, and now I'm a full Swiftie. I don't listen to a ton of contemporary music anyways, but Selena would play me the deep cuts. And I was like, 'Damn… Taylor's pen is so fire!'I Said I Love You First—and its deluxe edition released on May 2nd, …And You Said It Back—wasn't Blanco's first collaboration with Gomez. The two first melded minds in the studio while making Gomez's 2015 album, Revival, which yielded two of her biggest hits to date: 'Same Old Love' and 'Kill Em With Kindness.' 'I met Selena when she was 16,' Blanco says, explaining her mom connected them professionally as she prepared to sign a record deal. 'We didn't work together until many years later. They say you've probably already met the person that you're gonna spend the rest of your life with… I never believed that shit until it happened to me.''And now I get to kiss her,' he adds. 'It's like my own little fairytale I concocted.' He won't say as much, but his songs with Gomez are just a handful of highlights in Blanco's illustrious career. He founded his boutique labels under Interscope (Mad Love and Friends Keep Secrets) and boasts credits on some of the biggest hits of the past 20 years, including Kesha's 'TiK ToK,' Katy Perry's 'Teenage Dream,' and Maroon 5's 'Moves Like Jagger.' Blanco was just 20 years old when he was signed as a producer to Kasz Money Productions, which is how he ended up working on the first major hit in his repertoire: Britney Spears's 2008 classic, 'Circus.' 'I was like, 'Mom, I'm going in the studio with Britney Spears,'' Blanco recalls. 'She was like, 'No, you're not.' And I was like, 'I swear, I am!' That's how it was. Even when my songs got big, my mom was like, 'Yeah, but what's your backup plan?'' For all his resulting fame and fortune, Blanco coasts through our conversation with an unpretentious, down-to-earth cool. He was born Benjamin Joseph Levin in Grand Prairie, Texas—the exact same birthplace as his betrothed—and was raised between Virginia and Maryland. He first developed an affinity for pop when he was 5 years old, citing his mother's copy of the 1992 Prince album, Love Symbol, which Blanco remembers as 'his 'Sexy M.F.' era.' 'We used to have one of those portable CD players that you had to plug into the wall, so I would drag that around everywhere and just get naked and dance,' Blanco recalls. 'My first two [records] I ever bought were [singles]: Nas, 'The World Is Yours,' and All-4-One's 'I Swear.' That's what started it all.' Blanco attended public school in Virginia, where he made friends of various nationalities and walks of life—and he studied their music, too. Under the influence of DMV-area legends like Timbaland, Missy Elliott, and Pharrell Williams, Blanco experimented on beats with his buddies using the Korg Triton, the holy grail of the Virginia sound, and aughts-era production software like Fruity Loops and Sound Forge. Thanks to the burgeoning club music scene in neighboring Baltimore and the bloghaus sound bubbling up in New York City, Blanco began building his own effervescent and quirky approach to pop by collaborating with rapper Spank Rock, as well as the late turntablist Disco D. College wasn't on the agenda for Blanco, who skipped class in high school to play at dance parties in Brooklyn. But he didn't even possess a laptop, a turntable, or a hard drive—just a cumbersome iMac G5 monitor he drove up from Virginia and lugged sheepishly from club to club. After his shows, Blanco and his friends 'would sleep in the train station, a park, or even the McDonald's in Times Square.' As for his parents, he adds, 'They didn't really know. Are you kidding me? My mom would have lost her mind if she knew I was sleeping on a park bench!' Blanco considers his mother to be his biggest role model. In the wake of her divorce from Blanco's father, she equipped her son with ample relationship advice. 'My mom always took the time to explain how a female mind works because she was going through so many dating traumas when I was growing up,' he explains, crediting her love for painting and music as a source of his own creativity, joy, and tenderness. 'I've had some tough times, but I've always been like a very happy person. I just wake up stoked every day.' His resulting emotional intelligence became evident during a recent appearance on celebrity life coach Jay Shetty's 'On Purpose' podcast. Blanco left audiences positively floored by the ease with which he took responsibility for his role in maintaining relational harmony: 'I think people's biggest problem, especially men, is we don't listen all the time... A woman will tell you exactly what she needs.' 'I'm 37 years old,' says Blanco. 'I hope I know how to treat a woman by now! Like, you should always ask a woman what they wanna do. Don't always talk about yourself. Then you put it into practice… and you fuck up so much, oh my God. You know how many frogs I had to kiss to get to Selena?'I can't help but wrinkle my nose at the comparison. 'They were beautiful frogs!' Blanco assures me, 'And like, guys are so bad... I know so many awesome women who are single. And it's like, how are they single? They're 10 out of 10! But there are so many fuckboys. Don't settle, ladies. Not for some dude that uses more hair gel than you do.' It begs my next question: Did you have any men in your life who helped you develop emotional competency? To that, he smiles and shakes his head. 'Nah,' he says. 'But some things [I] learn from friends of mine. I see them do something stupid, and I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'll never do that in a relationship.' Then sometimes you see your friend do something rad, and you're like, 'Ooh, I'm taking that little idea.' You stop learning when you stop listening.' There are no guarantees of a Benny and Selena On the Run world tour as of yet. Besides planning their upcoming wedding, Gomez has been in New York shooting the fifth season of Only Murders in the Building, the Emmy-winning mystery comedy series with Martin Short and Steve Martin. In the meantime, Blanco dreams of starting a family with Gomez someday. 'I love kids; I love being an uncle,' he intimates. 'I want to be a dad, though, God willing. I'm just dreaming and praying every day.' And he hopes their latest record, with all the love and goodwill baked into it, will resonate with young men and women looking for their other halves—musical and otherwise. 'These are the years of strong women, and to me, it's so important that powerful women are being heard and loved and respected,' Blanco says. 'I can't wait to see what it does for this next generation of music. And for women in general, not having to take shit from dumb men… And not having to sing as much about suffering, I guess!'Photographer Leeor WildStylist Chloe BadawyGrooming Giuliana BartolettiSet Stylist Amy Jo DiazSpecial Thanks PolaroidRead the original article on InStyle
Yahoo
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Coachella 2025: How to watch the Weekend 2 livestream as Lady Gaga, Travis Scott and more perform, see the full lineup and schedule
Are you ready for Weekend 2 of the 2025 Coachella Valley Musical festival? Headlined by Lady Gaga, Green Day, Post Malone and Travis Scott, Coachella's second leg kicks off on Friday. If you don't have tickets to the final weekend of the popular festival in Indio, California, don't fret: You can catch every performance via livestream on Coachella's YouTube channel (and watch the replays from Weekend 1). And if that's not enough, there's still time to get Coachella tickets — here's what you need to know. Haven't watch Weekend 1 performances yet? You're missing out on seeing Weezer on stage, where not only did they sing their classics but also covered Metallica's "Enter Sandman." And of course Lady Gaga didn't disappoint (does she ever?) — don't miss the "Poker Face" performance. Here's how to watch Weekend 2 so you don't miss out on seeing other surprise moments. Every performance will stream live on Coachella's official YouTube channel. The show kicks off at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on Friday, April 11. Stream Coachella You can also download the new Coachella Livestream App to create your own schedule of livestreams, watch highlights and shop festival merch from afar. Here's when some of your favorite artists will be performing. Friday, April 18 Lady Gaga: 11:10 p.m. Missy Elliott: 9:00-9:50 p.m. The Marías: 8:20-9:20 p.m. Tyla: 6:45-7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 19 Green Day: 9:05-10:45 p.m. Travis Scott: 11:40 p.m. Ed Sheeran: 3:00-4:00 p.m. Charli XCX: 7:15-8:10 p.m. The Misfits: 11:20 p.m. T-Pain: 5:25-6:15 p.m. Jimmy Eat World: 4:00-4:50 p.m. Sunday, April 20 Post Malone: 10:25 p.m. Megan Thee Stallion: 8:35-9:25 p.m. Ty Dolla $ign: 9:35-10:20 p.m. Zedd: 9:10-10:10 p.m. Shaboozey: 4:05-4:50 p.m. Lady Gaga, Green Day, Post Malone and Travis Scott are headlining Coachella 2025. Missy Elliott, Megan Thee Stallion, and Charli XCX are in second-line slots. The Misfits, the Marías, Benson Boone, Clairo, the Go-Gos, Enhypen, Keshi and more artists are also set to perform — and Ed Sheeran and Weezer were just announced as last-minute, one-day additions to the lineup. There are still some last-minute tickets available if a livestream just won't satisfy your need to see Lady Gaga live (we understand). Find tickets If you do grab some last-minute Coachella tickets, you'll want to book somewhere to stay too. Find hotels Missed the outfits last week? Check out these pictures of the boho chic and indie sleaze Coachella looks from Weekend 1.
Yahoo
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Coachella 2025: How to watch the Weekend 2 livestream as Lady Gaga, Travis Scott and more perform, see the full lineup and schedule
We independently evaluate the products we review. When you buy via links on our site, we may receive compensation. Read more about how we vet products and deals. Are you ready for Weekend 2 of the 2025 Coachella Valley Musical festival? Headlined by Lady Gaga, Green Day, Post Malone and Travis Scott, Coachella's second leg kicks off on Friday. If you don't have tickets to the final weekend of the popular festival in Indio, California, don't fret: You can catch every performance via livestream on Coachella's YouTube channel (and watch the replays from Weekend 1). And if that's not enough, there's still time to get Coachella tickets — here's what you need to know. Haven't watch Weekend 1 performances yet? You're missing out on seeing Weezer on stage, where not only did they sing their classics but also covered Metallica's "Enter Sandman." And of course Lady Gaga didn't disappoint (does she ever?) — don't miss the "Poker Face" performance. Here's how to watch Weekend 2 so you don't miss out on seeing other surprise moments. Every performance will stream live on Coachella's official YouTube channel. The show kicks off at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on Friday, April 11. Stream Coachella You can also download the new Coachella Livestream App to create your own schedule of livestreams, watch highlights and shop festival merch from afar. Here's when some of your favorite artists will be performing. Friday, April 18 Lady Gaga: 11:10 p.m. Missy Elliott: 9:00-9:50 p.m. The Marías: 8:20-9:20 p.m. Tyla: 6:45-7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 19 Green Day: 9:05-10:45 p.m. Travis Scott: 11:40 p.m. Ed Sheeran: 3:00-4:00 p.m. Charli XCX: 7:15-8:10 p.m. The Misfits: 11:20 p.m. T-Pain: 5:25-6:15 p.m. Jimmy Eat World: 4:00-4:50 p.m. Sunday, April 20 Post Malone: 10:25 p.m. Megan Thee Stallion: 8:35-9:25 p.m. Ty Dolla $ign: 9:35-10:20 p.m. Zedd: 9:10-10:10 p.m. Shaboozey: 4:05-4:50 p.m. Lady Gaga, Green Day, Post Malone and Travis Scott are headlining Coachella 2025. Missy Elliott, Megan Thee Stallion, and Charli XCX are in second-line slots. The Misfits, the Marías, Benson Boone, Clairo, the Go-Gos, Enhypen, Keshi and more artists are also set to perform — and Ed Sheeran and Weezer were just announced as last-minute, one-day additions to the lineup. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Coachella (@coachella) There are still some last-minute tickets available if a livestream just won't satisfy your need to see Lady Gaga live (we understand). Find tickets If you do grab some last-minute Coachella tickets, you'll want to book somewhere to stay too. Find hotels Missed the outfits last week? Check out these pictures of the boho chic and indie sleaze Coachella looks from Weekend 1.
