COLLABORATE: Rosalía and Anitta are getting ready for a song collaboration

Rosalía and Anitta are getting ready for a song collaboration.

According to a reliable insider, ROSALÍA and Anitta will collaborate soon.

  — The song is likely to be one of the singles for Anitta’s upcoming album. The Spanish pop superstar Rosalía disappointed thousands of fans in Peru when the country was left off the 15-country list on her Motomami tour last year.

But one Peruvian, Ioanis Patsias decided to make sure his fellow fans did not miss out on her pop spectacle and put on a tribute show, playing the avant-garde pop queen himself.

We sold out! Many of my followers came to the show to see me and went away loving Rosalía,” said Patsias, known as iOA on YouTube where he has also made tributes to J Balvin, Nicki Minaj and Billie Eilish.

On stage, iOA and his “motopapis” lip-synced and performed the Spanish singer’s setlist which included Con Altura, Motomami and La Combi Versace. Clips of the tribute performance have gone viral on social media.

It was the fruit of months of preparation and a small fortune spent on auditioning dancers, choreography, costume rehearsals and content creation, said Patsias, who saw Rosalía perform at Radio City Hall in New York in September.

“I just wanted to bring the Motomami experience to Peru. My [social media] fans made this possible, they were complicit with me in making this happen from the beginning,” Patsias told the Guardian.

The idea was never to make money, the idea was to do the tribute as best as possible,” said Patsias, 34, who recouped through ticket sales only part of the more than $100,000 that he spent staging the show.

“I did a casting of more than 100 dancers to get to the eight who performed. They all had to make transformations, one even covered his body with tattoos,” he said.

“I want her fans to realise that I love her just as much as they do,” added Patsias who has more than 1 million followers on TikTok.