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Chadia Rodríguez
Chadia Darnakh Rodríguez, known simply as Chadia Rodríguez[1] (born 6 November 1998), is a Moroccan Italian rapper. BiographyRodríguez was born in Almería, Spain to a Moroccan father and Spanish mother. She grew up in Turin where she began playing in a Juventus women's youth team, before abandoning the sport due to a serious injury.[2] She moved to Milan where she worked as a nude model and then dedicated herself completely to music, starting to write her first lyrics. [3] She was noticed by the producer Big Fish who signed her to Doner Music, a record label co-founded with Jake La Furia of Club Dogo.[4] She was noticed by Sony Music thanks to her first song Dale and signed with the record company in June 2018.[5] In the same year she became the first woman to appear on the cover of a rap playlist on the Spotify streaming service.[6] Her career continues with White Smoke and Bitch 2.0 which gain popularity on streaming platforms; the first, in particular, is certified gold by the Italian Music Industry Federation with over 25,000 copies sold nationally.[7] Her first EP, Avere 20 anni, contains all of her songs published up to then together with an unreleased song, “Sarebbe comodo”.[8] On March 15, 2019 she participated as a headliner at MI AMI XXX, at District 272 in Milan.[9] In May 2019, she performed on Manuel Agnelli's show Ossigeno[10] while on 31 January 2020 the single La voci di Chadia was published, strongly inspired by the Netflix television series Narcos.[11] On 8 March 2020, she announced the collaboration with Federica Carta, Bella Cosi, which should have been released on March 27; however the song's release was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.[12] On May 22, 2020, a video of one of the girls who were victims of cyberbullying and body shaming was finally published by spreading on her Instagram profile;[13] the song was later certified gold.[14] In June 2020, the Italian magazine Billboard dedicated the cover of the monthly magazine to her[15] and she was the protagonist of an episode of the MTV program YO! MTV Raps.[16] On 20 October 2020, she was the protagonist of an episode of the program Giovani e famosi on Rai 2.[17] In 2022, she hosted the sex education program Sex, Lies & Chadia on Discovery+ and publishes the book Sex, Lies & Chadia. Il mio libero manuale di educazione al piacere for the publisher Baldini & Castoldi.[18] DiscographyEP
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