Tulsa wins the 2024 National Current Music Award for its album ‘Amadora’ | Culture

The band Tulsa, led by the artist Miren Iza (Hondarribia, 45 years old) has been awarded the National Prize for Current Music. The jury has decided to award him for his album Amadora and its stage adaptation, “an outstanding album with lyrics of deep lyrical depth and a poetic sensitivity built from customs to vindicate and give voice to women less represented in society.”

With this project, the justification of the award continues, the artist “culminates a career of enormous influence on Spanish music in recent years thanks to a unique and personal way of composing and singing.” The ruling also recognizes Tulsa’s role as a creator, which “has marked several generations of bands and artists, often working outside the media spotlight and creating from absolute independence.” Amadorain its stage translation, had the collaboration of María Velasco, this year’s winner of the National Dramatic Literature.

Miren Iza, a Basque composer and singer, began her career in music in the late 1990s singing in English with the female punk pop band Electrobikinis. After their separation in 2002, she began to write songs in Spanish and in 2007, the year in which she was nominated for the Latin Grammy for Breakthrough Artist, she presented the first of the seven albums she would release under the stage name Tulsa, ‘You’ve only touched me- In 2010, his second album was released, Wait for the pale (Subterfuge), in which he continues the American folk rock spirit of his music and with which he toured extensively for two years, traveling throughout Spain, in addition to playing in Argentina and New York.

In New York he continued with his artistic project. In 2015 he presented his album The dead calm (Gran Derby Records), produced by Carasueño and Charlie Bautista, which marks a turning point in his career by introducing synthesizers, a characteristic sound of his music from this moment on. In 2017 he recorded and edited Centaurs (Intromúsica Records), again produced by Charlie Bautista, but this time with Angel Luján; and in 2021 presents That ecstasy. In 2016 he recorded the soundtrack for the film by Jonás Trueba The romantic exiles, which is published under the same name and with which they carry out a joint tour that includes the screening of the film in various parts of Spain.

The previous musicians awarded this National were Rodrigo Cuevas (2023), Sílvia Pérez Cruz (2022), Rozalén (2021), Chano Domínguez (2020), María Rodríguez Mala Rodriguez (2019), Christina Rosenvinge (2018), Javier Ruibal (2017), Martirio (2016), Jorge Pardo (2015), Carmen París (2014), Luz Casal (2013), Kiko Veneno (2012), Santiago Auserón (2011) , the duo Amaral (2010) and Joan Manuel Serrat (2009).