Rose Villain

Rosa Luini (born 20 July 1989), best known as Rose Villain, is an Italian singer-songwriter. She is one of few Italian musicians to write and record mainly in English.
Villain achieved popularity first in 2016, thanks to the certified platinum single "Don Medellín" together with Italian rapper Salmo and then in 2020 with the certified triple platinum single "Chico", together the Italian rapper Guè Pequeno. Furthermore Rose Villain is the first female artist to have signed a deal with the Italian hip hop label Machete Empire Records and also the first Italian singer-songwriter to sign a record deal with Republic Records.
Early life.
Born and raised in Milan, she begins to discover her predisposition for singing in elementary schools. At only 18 years old she moved to Los Angeles, where she studied contemporary music at the Musicians Institute of Hollywood, taking the major in rock music. During the Los Angeles years she starts to sing into a punk rock cover band called The Villains, from here derives her name Rose Villain. Years later she moved to New York City, where she completed her studies in theater and musicals at Broadway. After completed her studies she met her managers, Mark Gartenberg a former A&R of Sony Music Entertainment and Eric Beall ex vice president creative of Sony ATV who also contributed to launch the career of Britney Spears during his years at Zomba and Jive Records. A couple years later she'll met her executive producer and partner in life, the Italian multiplatinum producer SIXPM.
Career.
2016–2017 : the debut singles.
In 2016, she signed with the famous Italian hip hop independent label, Machete Empire Records label founded in 2012 by Salmo, DJ Slait, Enigma e Hell Raton, becoming the first female artist of the roster. On 19 July of the same year she released her debut single Get The Fuck Out of my Pool who mix electronic music and hip hop, the music video of the song was shot between Brooklyn and Manhattan. A couple of months later she released her second single Geisha which will make her earn the tile "artist of the month" on the Italian MTV New Generation. On 11 November 2016, the Italian rapper Salmo released the single "Don Medellín" for the re-release of his album "Hellvisback", the song is featuring Rose Villain and it peaked at number 13 on the official Italian single charts of FIMI, today the song is certified platinum and it reached more than 16 millions of views on YouTube. In 2017 Villain signs a distribution deal with Universal Music Germany, through the label she released the remix version of her single "Geisha", who was remixed by Swanky Tunes. In the same year she released the singles "Kitty Kitty" and "Don't Call The Po-Po" for which she shot and directed the music video in New York. In 2020, "Don't Call The Po-Po" took part of the soundtrack of the second season of L.A.'s Finest. The first singles immediately caught the attention of an A&R of Republic Records, who decided to meet Rose Villain and offer her a record deal.
2018–2019 : Signing with Republic Records.
In early 2018, she announced the signing with Republic Records, thus marking the record for being the first Italian artist to ever sign a record deal with the label. The first single with Republic Records, "Funeral Party" was released on 20 July 2018. The song is mix between pop and dancehall, the music video of the song is directed by the same Villain and it was shot at top of 2018 in Kingston, Jamaica. On 26 July 2019, she released her second single with Republic Records called "SWOOP!" produced by Sidney Swift which contains a sample of "Whoomp! (There It Is)" by Tag Team, in the same period she released "Kanye Loves Kanye" via Island Records UK, with MDNT and SIXPM. At the end of 2019, Rose Villain ends her contract with Republic Records and decided to be an independent artist for a while, she released in the fall of the same year two singles "Sneakers" and "It's Snowing Motherfucker", for which she already released the music video in December 2018.
2020– present: The debut with her first single in Italian.
In 2020, Rose Villain signed a new record deal with Arista, Sony Music Italy and she released her first single in Italian named "Bundy". A couple months later she released the official single in Italian titled "Il Diavolo Piange", the video of the song was shot in New York and is directed by Joe Mischo also known as Brume, a popular director from Los Angeles. In the summer of 2020 was released the single "Chico" by the Italian rapper Guè Pequeno the single is part of his certified platinum seventh studio album "Mr. Fini" and is featuring Rose Villain together the Italian rapper Luchè. Initially Chico was a record written in english and meant to be a single for Republic Records that was never released, after listen to the record, rapper Guè Pequeno asked to Rose Villain to translate the lyrics in Italian as he wanted to use it for his new album. "Chico" became a huge success in Italy, it peaked at number 5 on the official singles chart of FIMI, as today is certified triple platinum, reaching more than 19 million views on Vevo and more than 50 millions streams on Spotify, it's also one of the ten top-selling songs in 2020 in Italy. After the huge success of Chico, Rose Villain released her third single in Italian titled "Goodbye". At the end of 2020 the Swiss melodic death metal band Dreamshade announced their new album set to be released on March 2021 named "A Pale Blue Dot", one of the song of the album called "Stone Cold Digital" is featuring Rose Villain. On February 15, 2021 Italian rapper Mondo Marcio released his EP titled "My Beautiful Bloody Break up", one of the songs titled "Corona Love Story" seen Villain as featured artists. On April 13, 2021 she announced her collaboration with Paco Rabanne for which she was chosen as testimonial for the launch of the fragance "Lady Million Fabolous", On May 4, 2021 was released the single "Soli" together the italian rapper Giaime .
Musical influences.
Rose Villain is very inspired by film director such as Quentin Tarantino, David Fincher, Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock, other than be very passionate of criminology. Those interests brought Villain to create her dark sound, which mix rock and hip hop, she also inspired by artists such as Nirvana, Guns N' Roses, The Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, The Notorious B.I.G., 2Pac, Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign and Kid Cudi. Villain also said that she's inspired by Italian songwriter Lucio Battisti.
Discography.
Singles.
As solo artist
Guest appearances