Rigoberta Bandini
Paula Ribó González (born 30 April 1990), better known by the stage name Rigoberta Bandini, is a Spanish singer-songwriter, theatre and television actress, voice actress, and playwright from Barcelona. Ribó's multi-departmental professional career started at age seven, when she provided the Iberian Spanish dubbing voice work for the title character of the children animated series "Caillou." She continued to work as a voice actress in both Catalan and Castilian for international firms such as Universal and Disney starring in big productions such as "Peter Pan" and "Brave," as well as in film series like "The  Twilight Saga" or "The Divergent Series" and musical films such as "Les Misérables, Sing" and "Frozen". She also became the regular Spanish-talking voice of Emma Stone, Dakota Fanning and Shailene Woodley. After graduating Institut del Teatre, she ventured into the music scene in 2011 alongside two college friends with the formation The Mamzelles. They released two studio albums. In parallel to her contribution in film, Ribó created her own theatre production company, directed four plays, started in six, and wrote other four. She also starred in selected Catalan television films and series. In 2019, Ribó launched her solo music  career under the pseudonym Rigoberta Bandini. Her third single, "In Spain We Call It Soledad", released in 2020, became viral on Spotify and launched Bandini into stardom. She achieved national recognition in 2022 placing as the runner-up at the Benidorm Fest in the run to represent Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Ay mamá", which also became her first entry in the Spanish charts. Career. In 1996, at the age of six, Ribó participated at the Zecchino d'Oro children song competition in Italy with the song "La scatola dei tesori". She also debuted in voice acting  in an early age. Among other works, she voiced Caillou in the Peninsular Spanish dubbing of the homonym series, Chihiro in the Peninsular Spanish dubbing of "Spirited Away", or Anna in the Catalan dubbing of "Frozen". Ribó studied theatre at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona. In 2010, together with Paula Malia y Bàrbara Mestanza, she founded the music group The Mamzelles. The band released two albums "Que se desnude otra" (2012) and "Totem" (2014). In 2012, they created a theatre company, The Mamzelles Teatre. In 2019, Ribó launched her solo music career under the stage name of Rigoberta Bandini , a fusion of names from human rights activist Rigoberta Menchú and John Fante character Arturo Bandini. In 2020, she rose to prominence in Spain as her single "In Spain We Call It Soledad" became viral in Spotify. In December 2021, she was selected to participate in the first edition of Benidorm Fest, the song festival organised to determine 's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest, with the song "Ay mamá", placing as the runner-up. The song became her first entry in the Spanish charts, as well as her first single to reach the first position in the Spanish charts . Personal life. Ribó started dating comic Esteban Navarro, from the comedy group Vengamonjas, in March 2019. She gave birth to their first child, Nico, on 2 June 2020.