Biography
The surrealistic image of her song "Vagina Dentada" signified Fabiola Alarcón's breakthrough in the field of rap and urban music.
A visual artist, singer and exponent of imaginative verse, she then appeared under the stage name of Planta Carnívora in a controversial proposal due to the boldness of her texts. Although at first they were viewed with humour by the media, little by little his project was installed in the scenes of the transforming hip-hop and trap of the end of the decade of the '10s.
In parallel to his work in the visual arts, his musical project began in 2010 as a result of a re-observation of rap from the 1990s. Alarcón called his narrative style "rapón": a representation of rap pushed to a deliberate exaggeration.
With musical references ranging from Public Enemy and Snoop Dog to Chile's Tiro de Gracia, Rezonancia and Calambre, in 2012 he came out with a self-produced, lo-fi album, sustained on domestic keyboards, which was titled in Italian as Vagina dentata.
There, his characteristic lyrics began to appear: "La caleta de pescadores", "La mujer metralleta", and later "My pussy te hace soñar", "Puedo escribir los versos más cochinos esta noche", "Peo trasher", "Pon atención" and "Golden squirt", among others.
As a generation also listener of reguetoneros such as Daddy Yankee, Arcángel or the Puerto Rican duo Plan B, Planta Carnívora expanded that look from hip-hop to urban Latin rhythms. Her next albums were illustrated by her, and her musical material increased the explicit lyrics, as an exercise in appropriating the language of the street. There, Planta Carnívora exposed themes of social conflict, small personal history, political incorrectness and the abuses that unleashed the social outburst in October 2019, as in the song "El agua".
Their album "Puedo escribir los versos más cochinos esta noche" (2014) took material from that homemade debut and continued in the vein of lo-fi music, while on Squirt (2017) Planta Carnívora took a more determined step towards trap and more elaborate music, which featured production by Miopec (Tobías Alcayota, Van, MKRNI). During this period, Fabiola Alarcón also had a leading role in the film Prueba de actitud (2016), which also starred singer Denise Rosenthal.
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