Open about his intentions to challenge 2010s Spanish hip-hop practices, rapper and singer-songwriter Juancho Marqués moved from his impactful crew Suite Soprano to a string of ear-grabbing solo releases capturing a virtuosic MC and pondering wordsmith at the intersection of boom-bap and electronics. Confronting anxiety and dark thoughts, he later turned a page with sunny reggaetón and albums such as the timelessly eclectic Álbum Uno (2019) and 2023’s conceptual Paraíso 39—the latter a work that weathered the pandemic years with fertile, genre-bending collaborations and heart-warming acoustic touches.