Gianluca

Gianluca Abarza was a rap and electronics-loving high schooler when he started experimenting with music on his computer, but it was during a stint as an art student that he fully dedicated himself to it. "Quemando billetes" was an early song he published through YouTube, the platform that later turned another of his compositions into a phenomenon: "Siempre triste". The music video for that track, which shows him inside a swimming pool holding a melon with wine, racked up hundreds of thousands of views in a short time and made him, for many, synonymous with the Chilean trap circuit. "With 'Siempre triste' I felt like an internet character. I didn't like being in the spotlight or having this label of the prince of trap [...] for me, trap is not music. I mean, the sound itself is bad, dirty, digital, unschooled music, but it gets stuck in your head and it's hard to get away from the fun it delivers. Like drugs," he later told the newspaper La Tercera. The mixtape SSR (2017) and the EP Vortex (2017) were his first formal releases, but Gianluca belongs to a generation that moves through other coordinates: with videos and singles that circulate and resonate through digital platforms, rather far from traditional media, and with performances in small venues and underground parties. G Love (2018) continued those logics, adding certain experimental touches and even guitars provided by Franco Perucca (El Cómodo Silencio de los que Hablan Poco).