Tulsa receives the 2024 National Prize for Current Music for his lyrics of “deep lyrical depth and poetic sensitivity”

The singer, guitarist and composer Tulsa artistic alias of Miren Iza, received this Monday the National Prize for Current Music2024. The artist has been recognized for her disco Amateur (2023), “an outstanding album with lyrics of deep lyrical depth and a poetic sensitivity built from customs”, according to the jury’s ruling, which also highlighted the album for “claiming and giving voice to women less represented in society.”

With this project, 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.”

The National Prize for Current Music, awarded annually by the Ministry of Culture, is endowed with 30,000 euros.

Miren Iza (San Sebastián, 1979), began her career in music in the late 90s 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 Grammy Latino The revelation artist, presented the first of the seven albums he has recorded under the stage name of Tulsa.

He jurychaired by the general director of INAEM, Paz Santa Cecilia Aristu, and acting as vice president the deputy general director of Music and Dance, Ana Belén Faus Guijarro, has been composed of the following members: the singer-songwriter Anni B Sweet, the journalist Diego Manrique; the director and presenter of Radio 3 Julio Ródenas; the singer and songwriter Zahara; the musician and producer Víctor Cabezuelo; the manager of the Concert Sales Association of Catalonia, Carmen Zapata Corbalán (at the proposal of the Association of Women in the Music Industry); and the winner of the 2023 National Prize for Current Music, Rodrigo Cuevas.