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Aitana (singer)

Spanish singer and actress (born 1999)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ50822527 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aitana Ocaña Morales (born 27 June 1999), known mononymously as Aitana, is a Spanish singer and songwriter. She first gained national recognition in 2017, placing as the runner-up in the revival series of the Spanish reality television talent show Operación Triunfo. While competing on the show, Aitana recorded the single "Lo Malo" with fellow contestant Ana Guerra. The song became an instant hit in Spain, debuting at number-one and holding the spot for several weeks. Following the competition, Aitana signed a 360º record deal with Universal Music Spain and released her debut solo single "Teléfono" to commercial success and streaming-breaking records.

Her debut studio album, Spoiler, was released in 2019 for which she received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best New Artist. In late 2020 she released her sophomore album 11 Razones, which spawned the top-five singles "+ (Más)" and "Corazón Sin Vida". After starring in the Disney+ original series La Última (2022) and in the film Love, Divided (2024), she released Alpha and Cuarto Azul to a wide number of top-five singles, including "Los Ángeles", "6 de Febrero" and "Superestrella". The former album received a nomination for Best Contemporary Pop Album and scored Best Recording Package at the 26th Latin Grammy Awards.

Dubbed as the "Spanish Princess of Pop", Aitana has accumulated five number one songs in her home country throughout her career: "Lo Malo", "Teléfono", "Vas a Quedarte", "Gran Vía", and "Mon Amour".

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Aitana (singer)” is spanish singer and actress (born 1999). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Aitana, singer and Spanish, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2017, 2019, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999-06-27. For this dossier, Aitana, singer and Spanish is the immediate research focus.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q50822527. VIAF identifies the subject as 1155042646772401042. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999, 2017, 2019 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aitana (singer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.