'Mio Cristo Piange Diamanti' Lyrics, English Translation & Meaning: Hear Rosalía's Stunning Italian 'Lux' Aria
Rosalía is making headlines with her phenomenal new studio album, Lux.
One of the big new records that everyone’s talking about is called “Mio Cristo Piange Diamanti,” which features lyrics in Italian.
Keep reading to find out more…
The song was produced by the singer alongside Noah Goldstein and Sir Dylan.
During an interview with NPR, she spoke of the song’s construction and intention.
“It took me a year, it took me a year! It took me so long to crack that one. My grandma [sent me a message] this morning, maybe I can play the audio. [Plays voice memo] She’s like, I heard your new song and I loved it, you changed the style, ha ha ha…she’s laughing a lot, that I’m doing this now, because I think she didn’t see it coming. When I was a kid, [my grandma] would have a lot of Pavarotti records in her place. And she would always be singing while she was washing dishes or whatever. It’s funny because it stuck with me. She would say, you know, how could you study flamenco? The real deal, for her, it was classical music and classical trained voices. I was like, one day I’m going to make a song that my grandma is going to be like, okay, now you got it.”
She told Apple Music about the song’s inspiration as well.
“When I found out about Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Clare of Assisi, apparently they had this really strong friendship and this strong bond, and that was beautiful. I was like okay, let me…write about this friendship. How how would that be?”
She also explained her writing process for the aria.
“I try to write first in Spanish…and then I would send it to a translator and also would use Google Translate. So I would like kind of like go back and forth with that for an entire year of writing,” she said.
“It took me a lot of attempts in front of the piano of trying to make the aria, and I would remember like I would talk with Noah and I would say ‘I really want to make an aria….but I need time to study. I need time to understand…how an aria is written,” she explained.
“It took me a year in Miami, writing in Miami…I finally found it…just improvising. I found the hook in the piano, very little notes with the left hand, just to understand a little bit how the chords could be. And then I brought it to LA. I kept working on it. And then one day finally, I got to the studio and I was like, finally I have the aria.”
At the very end of the song she speaks in English, saying: “That’s gonna be the energy, and then…”
“So, Noah basically said, ‘We need to put that at the end of the song,’ I said, ‘No, I don’t wanna have myself saying,’ and he was, ‘Yeah, you should be there ’cause you said that and that’s the spirit and that’s what you wanted to achieve and we should put that,’ and I was like, ‘Okay, let’s put it, let’s put it,’” she explained on Popcast.
Listen to “Mio Cristo Piange Diamanti”…
