A La Palma singer-songwriter born in Los Llanos de Aridane, known for an intimate writing style that moved from social-media covers to the success of Chiquita, Con cariño y con cuidado and el cuerpo después de todo.
Valeria Castro is a La Palma singer-songwriter born in Los Llanos de Aridane whose career moved from online covers and early music training to intimate authorial pop with national and international reach.
Open biographyShe has been at the piano and at the La Palma Island Music School since childhood. In 2015 she began posting covers on social networks; in 2021 Chiquita appeared as her first EP; in 2023 Con cariño y con cuidado arrived as her first long-form album; and in 2025 the discographic project moved on to el cuerpo después de todo. She maintains a steady pace of touring and releases, with wide critical reception.
Her importance lies in turning a voice closely tied to La Palma into a reference point for contemporary Canarian authorial pop. She has projected a recognisable island sensibility into Spanish and Latin American circuits without losing the link to the island, family and volcanic memory.
She has a sweet, close voice supported by piano and guitar, and writing that crosses intimacy, island memory and Canarian and Latin American root rhythms. Con cariño y con cuidado and el cuerpo después de todo consolidate an emotional pop approach that does not separate itself from social commentary or from references to La Palma.
Her repertory focuses on Chiquita, La raíz, Con cariño y con cuidado, Debe ser and el cuerpo después de todo. It does not attempt to close a complete songbook, only to fix the works already established in her trajectory.
Her legacy is still being formed, but it already points to a clear idea: a singer from La Palma capable of bringing the emotion of a small island to a wide audience without turning it into a postcard. That combination of closeness, vocal discipline and family memory is now one of her most recognisable traits.
The Canarian connection is found in her birth in Los Llanos de Aridane, in the La Palma music school, in lyrics tied to the island and in the way her discography turns La Palma experience into universal material.
Canción asociada al primer álbum y a la memoria de La Palma tras el volcán, una de las piezas clave del repertorio.
Colaboración con Vetusta Morla que le valió una nominación a los Goya.
Tema asociado a su segunda etapa discográfica y a otra nominación a los Goya.
Nace en Los Llanos de Aridane, La Palma.
Comienza a publicar covers en Instagram y YouTube.
Publica su primer EP, después de consolidar su presencia en redes.
Edita su primer disco largo, asociado a la memoria del volcán y a una gira de presentación.
El Boletín Oficial de Canarias publica su concesión de la Medalla de Oro de Canarias.
Presenta su segundo álbum de larga duración como continuidad de su trayectoria discográfica.
