These days Soraya has released a new album, ‘ILÚMINA’, completely dedicated to dance music. The bet is reminiscent of ‘Dreamer’ (2010) from fifteen years ago, but the proposal of ‘ILÚMINA’ draws on an icy and Nordic style, once again artistically reinventing the one who was a contestant on Operación Triunfo and later Spain’s representative at Eurovision.
Alternating lyrics in Spanish and English, Soraya draws on trance (‘Soy real’), hardcore (‘Fénix’), German eurodance (‘Heaven Knows’) or Swedish House Mafia high (‘Earthquake’) to rise above ultra-European, clubbing and dark atmospheres. And to show the video clip for ‘Soy real’, where Arnelas appears dressed as a spectral guardian of the forest: it almost looks like Fever Ray.
‘ILÚMINA’ also includes the single ‘Placebo’, with a Latin chill and melancholic feel – not for nothing does it close the album -, the trance of ‘Dance or Die’ or ‘Sundance’, which appears on the soundtrack of ‘Maspalomas’ (2025). The album opens with a tremendous self-affirming hit, in which Soraya walks her own ‘Iconism’, giving “pure hedonism”, “hypnotism”, “styling”, “protagonism” and “narcissism” and, as you see, rhymes everywhere. The best, the one in which he declares that “it’s leveling up to be avant-garde / catwalk on the court.” Pure “magnetism”, too.
