El Guincho

El Guincho
El Guincho in 2017
Background information
Birth name	Pablo Díaz-Reixa
Born	(1983-11-17) November 17, 1983 (age 41) Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Genres	Latin pop avant-garde Latin trap psychedelic pop tropicalia
Occupations	Musician singer record producer
Years active	2006–present
Labels	Young Turks XL

Pablo Díaz-Reixa (born November 17, 1983), professionally known as el Guincho, is a Spanish musician, singer, and record producer.^[1]

Díaz-Reixa rose to prominence with his 2008 album, Alegranza.^[2] His musical style relies heavily on the use of sampling and incorporates elements of Afrobeat, dub, tropicália and rock and roll. Díaz-Reixa has described his style of production as "space-age exotica".^[3] He primarily produces music with a Roland SP-404.

Díaz-Reixa was born as an only child in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands. After finishing high school, he moved to Barcelona, Spain, for college, where he majored in media studies. While in the city, he started to make music and was a member of the band Coconot.^[4]

He released his first album, Folías, independently in 2007. In October 2008, he released his breakthrough album, Alegranza, which was well received by critics, including earning a "Best New Music" designation by Pitchfork.^[5] He would spend the next two years touring the album worldwide.

In September 2010, Díaz-Reixa released Pop Negro, under British independent label Young Turks. The album includes the now popular single "Bombay." Notably, he worked on Björk's 2011 album Biophilia. Previously, in 2008, he remixed her on Enjoyed: A Tribute to Björk's Post.^[6]

While temporarily living in his hometown of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Díaz-Reixa worked on a collection of music that would later be his next album, Hiperasia. With a departure from his tropical sound, the album takes influences from trap and electronic music, employing heavy use of Vocoder and Autotune. It was released in February 2016.^[7]

That same year, Díaz-Reixa saw Spanish singer Rosalia live, and, fascinated by her sound, contacted her through social media to collaborate.^[8] He would later be sole producer of her sophomore album El Mal Querer, released in 2018. The album received critical acclaim.^[9] At the 19th Latin Grammy Awards, the single "Malamente" was nominated for five awards, including Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Urban Fusion Performance, and Best Alternative Song, winning the latter two. The next year's ceremony, the album won for Album of the Year, Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Album and Best Recording Package, while the song "Pienso en tu mirá" received a nomination for Best Pop Song.^[10][11] Díaz-Reixa received won for Best Engineered Album. The album also won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards.^[12]

In 2019, Díaz-Reixa co-produced and featured in the successful single "Con Altura," with Rosalia and J Balvin. In 2020, his work with artists like Rosalia, Aitana, and Paloma Mami earned him a Latin Grammy nomination for Producer of the Year.^[13]

Díaz-Reixa has lived in Barcelona since 2002.^[8] He is of partly Cuban descent through his grandmother, which he says was an inspiration on the Tropicalia influences on his earlier works.

Credits^[14][15]

Year	Title	Artist	Production	Songwriting	Technical
2011	"Biophilia"	Björk			Y
2012	Una Montaña Es Una Montaña	Los Punsetes	Y
2014	LPIV	Los Punsetes	Y
2018	"Malamente"	Rosalía	Y	Y	Y
	"Pienso en tu mirá"		Y		Y
	El Mal Querer		Y	Y	Y
	Espejo	Javiera Mena	Y
	Worldwide Angel	Bad Gyal	Y
2019	Spoiler	Aitana	Y	Y
	"Con Altura"	Rosalía featuring J Balvin and el Guincho	Y	Y
	"Aute Cuture"	Rosalía	Y	Y	Y
	"Yo x Ti, Tu x Mi"	Rosalía and Ozuna	Y	Y
	"A Palé"	Rosalía	Y	Y
2020	"Dolerme"			Y
	"Juro Que"		Y	Y
	Gore	Lous and the Yakuza	Y
	"TKN"	Rosalía and Travis Scott	Y	Y	Y
	"Sum Bout U"	645AR featuring FKA Twigs	Y[a]	Y
2021	Warm Up	Bad Gyal	Y	Y
	"Lo Vas a Olvidar"	Billie Eilish and Rosalía		Y
	"Goteo"	Paloma Mami	Y	Y
	Sound System: The Final Releases	Bad Gyal	Y	Y
2022	Caprisongs	FKA Twigs	Y	Y
	Motomami	Rosalía	Y	Y
	"Killer"	FKA Twigs	Y
	Fossora ("Ovule")	Björk	Y[b]
2024	Brat ("Everything is romantic")	Charli XCX	Y	Y
	C,XOXO	Camila Cabello	Y	Y
	Mantra	Jennie	Y

• Young Turks, El Guincho: Pop Negro