Erika Dos Santos | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Erika L. Dos Santos Ramos |
| Also known as | Erika2Santos |
| Born | 1997 (age 26–27) Madrid, Spain |
| Genres | Hip-hop, freestyle rap, battle rap |
| Occupation | Rapper |
| Instrument | Voice |
| Years active | 2016–present |
Erika L. Dos Santos Ramos (Madrid, 1997), known artistically as Erika Dos Santos and Erika2Santos, is a Spanish rapper. [1] [2] She has been called a "pioneer" of women's freestyle and battle rap in Spain. [3] [4]
Erika Dos Santos was born in Madrid in 1997, into a family originally from Cape Verde. [2] She lives in the San Cristóbal neighbourhood of Madrid. [1] In 2016, Dos Santos gave the talk Cosas que hacer antes de morir at a TEDxYouth conference in Madrid. [5] That same year, she won second prize in the Sanse Urbano festival, behind fellow rapper Alberto Robledo Bustos. [6] In 2018, she participated in the Spanish edition of the X Factor television programme, obtaining four "yeses" for her performance and in which she was compared to Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj. [7] [8]
Dos Santos has participated four times in the Red Bull Batalla de Gallos. [7] In 2017 she became the first woman to make it through the competition, reaching what at the time was called "The Last Man" (Spanish : El último hombre). [2] This led the competition to change the name of the event to "The Last Chance" (Spanish : La última oportunidad), a name that has been maintained in subsequent editions. [2] In 2019, she was a semi-finalist in the Batalla de Gallos. [7] She was one of the first two women to make it through to the semi-final, along with fellow rapper Sara Socas. [9] [10]
She has also developed social projects that use rap as a form of social intervention. [3] [11] In 2018, she and Sara Socas gave workshops for teenagers at risk of social exclusion in high schools in the Community of Madrid. [9] She has also promoted the Cypher School project to promote tolerance through rap, poetry and freestyle in La Parcería. [2] [12]
In 2023, on the occasion of International Women's Day, Dos Santos was one of eight women honoured by the Efeminista media for their women's rights activism. [2]
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