Magalí Sare
Magalí Sare was born into a family of musicians and began exploring music and singing from an early age, both academically and experientially. During her childhood and teenage years, she studied classical singing and flute at the Conservatory, and sang in a choir directed by her sister, Júlia Sesé. This experience led her to create her first group, Quartet Mèlt, with which she won the TV show Oh Happy Day and embarked on her first professional tour.
She combined jazz vocal studies with Quartet Mèlt, driven by a desire to expand her style, explore new ways of singing, and start finding her own artistic voice.
Magalí Sare stands out for her technique and expressiveness. She is a versatile, multifaceted, and richly nuanced singer — always unpredictable.
Her career is marked by versatility, having performed as a vocalist on Estómac with pianist Clara Peya, and releasing three albums as a singer-songwriter: Cançons d’amor i dimonis (2018), Esponja (2022), and two albums with Manel Fortià: Fang i núvols (2020) and Retornar (2023). She also released A boy and a girl (2020) with Sebastià Gris. All of them reflect a wide range of genres and musical styles.
In 2019 she was nominated as Breakthrough Artist at the Alícia Awards from the Catalan Academy of Music and at the ARC Awards. Her musical adaptation of Sònia Moya’s poem Desplegar-se was a finalist at the Terra i Cultura awards, and she won first prize at the SUNS EUROPE contest in Italy.
In 2020, she was the voice behind Estrella Damm’s summer commercial.
In 2023 she received an ALTAVEU Award, and her project RETORNAR was selected for WOMEX, EXIB, and nominated for the European UPBEAT TALENT AWARDS.
She is currently touring with Salvador Sobral and with her projects RETORNAR (with Manel Fortià) and Esponja. She also teaches at the Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona, mentoring the next generation.
Descasada
Residence September and October 2025
Descasada is a musical and stage project by Magalí Sare, the result of three years of musical and ethnographic research. It explores the role of women in wedding ceremonies and the cultural construction of marriage across time and cultures. With an open, critical, and poetic gaze, Sare draws on a variety of repertoires and styles to reveal the many faces of an institution historically shaped by gender inequality.
The project began almost by chance during a trip to Slovakia, where Magalí discovered a traditional song sung by women that deeply moved her. Upon understanding its lyrics —a young woman saying goodbye to her family because she’s getting married the next day— she was inspired to delve into traditional wedding songs, especially Slovak ones. These songs, performed by women’s communities, accompany every stage of the ceremony: the farewell, bridal preparation, arrival at the ceremony, first dance, toast, and even the deflowering as a symbolic transition from maiden to wife.
But Sare’s research didn’t stop there. The project expands to include songs and music from diverse cultures: songs of brides leaving home, women who flee before marrying, women who choose not to marry despite social stigma, Quechua traditions that propose living together before marriage, clandestine weddings, or Greco-Roman epithalamiums wishing happiness to the newlyweds.
