Carlos Alberto Sánchez Uriol

• Name — Carlos Sadness • Born — 31 March 1984 • Origin — Barcelona, Spain • Genre — Indie, pop • Occupation — Singer, illustrator • Instrument — Voice/ukulele/acoustic guitar • Years Active — (Carlos Sadness): 2011 – present (as Shinoflow): 2002–2007 • Label — Sony Music • Website — Instagram Web

He had been studying design while already uploading some of his songs onto Myspace. After a few years of touring underground and releasing his music through social media, he drew the attention of media becoming "one of the most important faces for 2009", according to El País. A few months later, he was commission to make a song for the film Brain Drain. That year he worked with Fernando Vacas (music producer of Russian Red) looking to develop his sound. In 2010 Carlos met his first manager Pito Cubillas (Alaska, Héroes del Silencio), with whom he travelled to Los Angeles, where a series of dreams made him discover a new way of composing his songs, based on the instrumentalization and influences of indie and folk music. During this year, Carlos was invited to participate in a tribute album to Antonio Vega, El alpinista de los sueños, in homage to Héroes del silencio, Hechizo, in the album of Luis Eduardo Aute, Intemperie. By the end of that year, he signed with Sony Music Entertainment. In January 2011, he released his first EP Atraes a los relámpagos that helped position him in the national indie-pop scene. In November, he took part in El Intermedio, a Spanish TV programme of La Sexta channel, with a comedy sketch about Spanish politics, and by the end of the year he was nominated as "Best New Artist Record 2011" by Radio Televisión Española (RTVE). In April 2012, he released his album Ciencias celestes and he finally used the name of Carlos Sadness. A personal and poetic album in which he musically reinvented himself without losing his personality. The day the album was released it appeared on the Spanish public TV channels (La 2 and 24 Horas). That year, the brand San Miguel Beer counted on him to star in its new advertising campaign "Ciudadanos en un lugar llamado mundo". In 2015, he released his second album, La idea salvaje, and it was nº 1 in Fnac and ranked in 12th position in the list of the Spanish top sellers. The album was produced in Glasgow, Scotland, and counted with the collaboration of Santi Balmes and it is a conceptual album which turns around the idea of a space travel, as a metaphor for the estrangement between two people. For weeks, his songs were nº 1 in "shared songs" of Spotify and Sadness became one of the six indie artists with more influence on the Spanish summer festivals and closing almost every concert of his tour, including two dates in Madrid with sold out tickets: Teatro Barceló and Sala But. This same year, he was nominated in the ARC awards for the "Best Tour of Festivals" and in the VEVO Awards in the category of Spanish music video for "Bikini". In 2016, he extended his tour to over 60 concerts and he was part of over 20 festivals while he was writing his first book Anatomías Íntimas, which launched in November that year. The book was the most pre-ordered book in Fnac from the announcement to its launching. That year was also his debut in Mexico at three consecutive sold-out shows in Lunario. In 2017, Sadness released a single with which he became the first Spanish 'indie' artist to exceed the 600,000 monthly playbacks on Spotify. He played in Vive Latino and did an American tour with 10 concerts. His song "Amor Papaya" with Caloncho was the most listened-to Spanish indie song on Spotify in 2017. The singer has issued the album Diferentes Tipos de Luz the following year, which started with the advance of 'Hale Bopp' on 12 January and with the release of the single "Longitud de Onda" on 2 February. Sadness' song "Aloha" was featured in the soundtrack of the video game FIFA 21.

• Group/author — Album — Song — Year • Miranda! — Fuerte — "Cálido y Rojo" — 2017 • Caloncho — Inédito — "Amor Papaya" — 2017 • Porta — Equilibrio — "Tela de araña" — 2016 • Love of Lesbian — La idea salvaje — "No vuelvas a Japón" — 2015 • Rubén Pozo (Pereza) — (single YouTube) — "Mátame ya" — 2013 • Jamie Cullum — Spot San Miguel/Momentum — "Everything you didn't do" — 2012 • Zahara — Ciencias celestes — "Au Revoir" — 2012 • Iván Ferreiro — Ciencias celestes — "Siempre esperándote" — 2012 • Russian Red — (rmx YouTube) — "Brave Soldier(Remix)" — 2011 • Luis Eduardo Aute — Intemperie — "Quiéreme" — 2011 • Bebe — Atraes a los relámpagos — "Se fue" — 2010 • Bebe — El alpinista de los sueños/Tributo a Antonio Vega — "Estaciones" — 2010

• Album — Song — Year • Presidente de los estados de ánimo (as shinoflow) — "Amor descafeinado" — 2007 • Atraes a los relámpagos — "Fue tan importante" — 2011 • Ciencias celestes — "Hoy es el día" — 2012 • Ciencias celestes — "Celeste" — 2012 • Ciencias celestes — "Siempre esperándote" (with Iván Ferreiro) — 2013 • Monteperdido — "Monteperdido" — 2014 • Ciencias celestes — "Au Revoir" (with Zahara) — 2014 • La idea salvaje — "Qué electricidad" — 2015 • La idea salvaje — "Miss Honolulu" — 2015 • La idea salvaje — "Bikini" — 2015 • Groenlandia & Houdini — "Groenlandia" — 2015 • La idea salvaje — "Perseide" — 2016 • La idea salvaje — "Días Impares" (with Melissa Robles) — 2017 • Amor Papaya — "Amor Papaya" (with Caloncho) — 2017 • Diferentes Tipos de Luz — "Volcanes Dormidos" — 2017 • Diferentes Tipos de Luz — "Longitud de Onda" — 2018