Isabella Lovestory

Lovestory was born Isabella Rodríguez Rivera on 30 November 1993 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.^[1] Her mother, Wendy Rivera, is an architect, and her father, Hector Rodriguez, was a radio show host; she has one younger brother named Andrès.^[8] She immigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 13 due to her mother's job, settling in Virginia,^[9] which she described as a culture shock. She moved to Montreal, Canada at the age of 17.^[10] She studied fine arts at Concordia University, but found its rules and structures dissatisfying and dropped out to become a musician.^[1][10] She initially started recording in 2018 with a song dedicated to her cat.^[1]

Lovestory began releasing DJ mixes and songs on her SoundCloud account before eventually releasing her debut mixtape, Juguete, in 2018. Following Juguete, she released two more extended plays, Humo in 2019 and Mariposa in 2020. Following success and praise from these releases, in 2021 she released three more singles, "Aló", "Vuelta", and "Tranki", respectively. Later that year, a second mixtape consisting of remixes from the latter EPs was released, which featured remixes from collaborators Kamixlo, Club Eat and Drumloop.

Lovestory's music reflects themes of self-expression and women's empowerment.^[11][12] She commented that Lovestory is a persona, and enjoys exaggerating her personality and having fun through the character.^[12] Lovestory's character embraces her own sexual objectification and commented: "Mocking men is fun. Mocking what society views as degrading to women is fun, because nobody gets to decide what a woman's true desires are."^[2]

In 2022, Lovestory was featured on SoundCloud's First on SoundCloud 2022 program, which is "an artist discovery program designed to break the next generation of superstars".^[13] Later that year, she released her debut album Amor Hardcore, which was proceeded by singles "Cherry Bomb", "Fashion Freak", "Sexo Amor Dinero" and "Exibisionista". The album saw collaborations from Six Sex and Ms Nina, and featured production from her main collaborator Chicken, alongside Kamixlo and Nick Léon. The album was recognized in various music and culture publications.^{[9][14][15][16]} The album was received well with critics, receiving a score of 7.2/10 from Pitchfork,^[17] the album was also ranked at 21st in the "50 Best Spanish-Language Albums of 2022" by Rolling Stone^[18] and was longlisted for the 2023 Polaris Music Prize.^[19] She also performed at the Pop Montreal festival^[6] later on in this year.

2022 also saw Lovestory produce, write and provide vocals for K-Pop girl group LE SSERAFIM, on their song "ANTIFRAGILE". The song incorporated Reggaeton and Neoperreo styles which Isabella has become known for. When announcing she had collaborated with LE SSERAFIM on the track she stated that she was "extremely happy" and that "dreams come true".^[20] She also collaborated with Mura Masa for a song on his demon time album, titled tonto, which they performed at Coachella together in 2023.^[21]

In 2023, Lovestory embarked on the Laticonica Tour with support from collaborator and boyfriend Kamixlo. The tour would be across 13 different countries over 24 dates.^[22] To support the tour, she released the single Latina.^[23] In July 2023, she played at the Festival d'été de Québec where she opened for Pitbull.^{[citation needed]} In December 2023, she released "Fuetazo" featuring Villano Antillano in December 2023.^[24] The song was featured on Pitchfork's weekly selects playlist.^[25]

2024 saw Rodríguez embark on a European tour, the Plastic Fantasy Tour,^[26] was announced in May of this year and would see Lovestory play festivals such as CDMX Festival and MELT Festival in Germany. 2024 saw Lovestory release three singles, "Botoxxx", "VIP" and "Puchica", which was described^[27] as fun and carefree by Isabella herself. The latter two singles released this year would appear on Rodríguez’s second studio album.

In 2025, Lovestory announced her second studio album, Vanity, which was released on 27 June 2025.^[7] The album was preceded by six singles, "VIP", "Puchica", "Putita Boutique" with Taichu, "Telenovela", which was named Track of The Day by SoundCloud on April 28 of that year,^[28] Gorgeous^[29] and "Eurotrash". In a press release, Rodríguez described Vanity by saying "Thematically, this album explores fragility, how easily a mirror shatters, but it also explores the indestructible and eternal essence of beauty. I don’t mind when things break, I like to collect the pieces and create something new."^[30] The album has been received well by music critics, with critics noting Vanity's expansive range of genres and Isabella's lyricism.^[31][32] The album also placed 23 on Pitchfork’s Best Pop Albums list for the year.^[33] Alongside playing LadyLand festival on June 28, 2025, alongside FKA twigs and Pabllo Vittar,^[34] Lovestory would embark on the Vanity World Tour which saw her play shows in the United States, Canada, Europe and Latin America.

Vanity received a Juno Award nomination in the new Latin Music Recording of the Year category at the Juno Awards of 2026.^[35]

• Latin American Canadians
• Music of Honduras