It’s a big night for Gale. The songwriter extraordinaire is nominated in the Best New Artist category this year for her solo project — and she told Rolling Stone on the Latin Grammys red carpet Thursday that she’s been waiting for this moment for years.
“This is something that I’ve dreamed of my whole life ever since I was seven years old when I wrote my first song,” she told host Ilana Woldenberg. “When I was already like, 11 or 12, I was practicing my speech with a bottle of shampoo in front of the mirror. And now it feels like a full circle moment. I’m just blessed to do what I love.”
“It’s like manifestation with a lot of freaking work,” she adds of the build-up to this moment in her career. “And it will happen.”
Gale is nominated in the Best New Artist category alongside Borja, Conexión Divina, Ana Del Castillo, Natascha Falcão, Gale, Paola Guanche, Joaquina, León Leiden, Maréh, and Timø. She’s also nominated in the Best Tropical Song category for her work on Manuel Turizo’s “El Merengue.”
Gale, who has been celebrated for her songwriting for other artists, is being recognized after releasing her own album, Lo Que No Te Dije, earlier this year.
“I feel like it’s such an honor. I admire all these artists and colleagues in the industry that I work with,” she said. “And it feels like a responsibility too because I was in the room writing songs with them and now I’m with my songs and my essence and trying to be very authentic and true to myself and they are being supportive and having that support also is like it means the world.”
The musician also teased that she started working on her second album, which she says will be “very fun and very powerful.” She also opened up about writing her song “Movie” with Bruses, which they released in time for Halloween.
“It takes me back to when I was 10-13 years old when I was Avril Lavigne. It gives me that pop-punk grungy vibe,” she said. “It’s about understanding you should be the lead of your life, and the lead role of your movie.”