Rita Payés

Rita Payés sounds like melodies that sway between the freshest jazz and the most intimate bossa nova, with a voice that seems to come from a 1960s café. It’s not just the trombone that defines her music, but the way she weaves instruments together as if each note breathes. From her early years in the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, where she shared the stage with Andrea Motis, Magalí Datzira, and Eva Fernández, her sound already showed that blend of technique and naturalness that would later lead her to explore other paths.

What began as a learning experience at the IEA Oriol Martorell under the direction of Joan Chamorro turned into a career where voice and trombone took turns telling stories. At just sixteen, she recorded two albums with Chamorro that earned her the Enderrock award for best jazz project in 2015. But it was with her mother, the guitarist Elisabeth Roma, where she found a sound that felt like home and a journey at the same time. In 2019, they released Imagina, an album that took them across stages in half of Europe and North Africa, from the United Kingdom to Morocco, passing through France and Italy. They weren’t looking to fill concert halls, but to let the music guide them wherever the wind blew.