Artist: Greta Percha
Song: “Tengo a ti”
Album: HOUSEWIFE
Label: Indépendant
Genre: Avant-Garde Pop
Greta Percha released a new album HOUSEWIFE earlier this year. It’s a cohesive album that brings in Percha’s stellar vocals, inventive coalescence of instruments and sound, as well as tongue-in-cheek lyrics around the nuanced concept of the housewife. This Lithuanian operatic singer/songwriter/producer captures the essence of her ideas clearly and pointedly with her songs.
One such song from her new album, “Tengo a ti”, is a Spanglish homage to the luxurious feeling of a foreign language washing over your senses and the delight that can ensue from those moments that are lost in translation in an exotic place. “Tengo a ti” essentially translates to “I have you” or “I’ve got you”; the “a ti” is added for emphasis, highlighting “you”.
Percha was in Mexico City at a music club. She hopped on stage for an impromptu moment, sang with the band, and had a conversation with them in her working Spanish. With the fever of icy margaritas in this tropical highland metropolis, Greta misheard the titular expression as “Tengua Ti.” She wrote it down in her notes for memory, as many songwriters do, and later created an entire song around her mishearing, only to discover the real translation near the end of her production!
The song is a delight, dripping with Spanish guitar, ballroom piano, and dark synth elements. Her voice echoes off the walls like a fantasma bouncing around an ofrenda room full of candles and marigolds, all while rhythmic drums crescendo and fuse with her dreamy vocals.
Creating is the whole thing. And when you can take a simple moment of your life, and build it into something that can be shared, that’s art. That’s the point. When we listen to music, we receive the gift. We receive the moment.
From the artist’s mouth:
“I write fluid, avant-garde pop for people who get bored easily. My songs evolve & wander through multiple musical biomes; they arrive exactly where they’re meant to! I’m aggressively uninterested in algorithm-bait music designed for mass streaming. Unfortunately, that also makes the music harder to promote in an industry that is curiously optimizing for sameness. I’m okay with that.”
Check out the track in our Check This 2026 Playlist.
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