Antonia Morales

Antonia Janneke Rie Morales (b. 29th August 1964) is a Spanish-Dutch rapper, singer-songwriter, media personality and actress who resides in Kuboia. Before entering music, she was an activist for Kuboian independence, and play a key role in the Kuboian Independence Movement in the mid-1980s. After Kuboia became an independent country in 1987, she began to focus more on a musical career whilst continuing to do fundraising and other events on irregular occasions.

Biography
Born to a Spanish father and a Dutch mother on 29th August 1964, Morales spent the first ten years of her life living in Palma de Mallorca. After her parents divorced, she moved back to Amsterdam with her mother, where she studied music and literature. She also lived in West Germany for a few years before moving to Kuboia in 1982 to the Dominion of Kuboia after she and her mother were offered "promising" jobs by Trevor Reef.

Morales and her family assisted Reef in the Kuboian Independence Movement, which involved helping with the country's budgeting and town planning - Morales gave a speech on Kuboia's future marketing strategies in September 1984, which was broadcast on KBG. The following years, she and her family took part in charity events that raised money to be spent on its economy. Morales was also responsible for naming the subunit of the nero currency, "rox", which she chose based on the silver coins of change she would often carry.

In 1988, Morales was amongst one of the first few people included in the Kunning Hall of Fame.

Family
Morales is the youngest of four siblings. Her mother died in 1991 at the age of 48 after suffering from pneumonia. Her father contacted coronavirus in August 2020, and died four months later at the age of 80. When talking about her father's death two years later, Morales expressed frustration over not being able to spend much time with him.

Through her older sister, Morales is the aunt to Mina van Trease (b. 1979) and Meiling Chen (b. 1981).

Relationships and children
Morales had an on-and-off relationship with Tuyp van Vilet that lasted from 1988 to 2002, with the two marrying in 1990. Later that year, Morales gave birth to their son, Vex Morales-Vilet. According to Vex, Morales would spoil him very badly and was still breastfeeding him until he was eight years old.

After Morales and Vilet separated in late 2002, Vilet mentioned that he and Morales had a "pretty rocky" relationship, and claimed that Morales was controlling and verbally abusive to him, and gaslit him when he tried to leave her on multiple occasions. The two continued to argue in regards to Vex's custody before Vilet said he wanted "nothing to do with her" in 2005. According to her friends, Morales felt resentful when Vilet started dating another woman, with one of her sisters mentioning in 2011 that she refused to move on and find another partner. Although it was reported that Morales that she is on friendly terms with Vilet again following her release from prison.

Several of Morales' family members claim that Morales likes to hang around and spend time with younger gay men. Morales herself identifies as a "straight ally", and later claimed in a 2005 interview that she generally finds gay men to be more attractive than straight men.

Morales has two granddaughters, Angelina (b. 2021) and Monique (b. 2022), who Vex is the father to.

Mental health issues
Morales has suffered from poor mental health throughout her life, which she believes is linked to a variety of issues such as her childhood of growing up in pre-independent Kuboia, her mother's death and her addiction to alcohol and drugs. In 2003, it was reported that she had attempted suicide, although it was later revealed that was simply suffering from suicidal ideation. Shortly after, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

In June 2022, Morales revealed that she had taken up boxing to overcome her mental health issues. She also follows a strict "one alcoholic drink a week" rule, preferring to drink water.

Musical style
Morales' musical style spans a variety of different subgenres, including KB hopscotch, disco, acid house, hi-NRG and other forms of dance and rock music, often with a mixture of sung, rapped and spoken vocals. Songs written and performed by her are centred around a variety of themes and topics including hustling, sex, drugs, rebellion and social commentary. Morales has on several occasions used lyrics to "get [her] political views across".

Morales has been critical of the usage of Auto-Tune in pop and dance songs, stating in 2009 that it "makes everybody sound the same", concluding "You'd never hear me use that shit on my songs". When asked about it in 2022, Morales explained that she is not against Auto-Tune on paper, but that she believes that it gets abused by "lazy" musicians.

Controversy and legal issues
In later years of her life, Morales has become involved in some controversy and legal issues. She was arrested and/or charged for several incidents throughout the 1990s, including drunken and disorderly behaviour, getting into fights in public and vandalising public property.

Throughout the 2000s, Morales became the forefront of controversy over some comments she made in interviews. In 2006, she was criticised for making distasteful remarks about Central and Eastern European immigrants, as well imitating them by speaking in broken English. In 2007, when asked if she identifies as a feminist, Morales said "No, because I'd be a hypocrite", going on to refer to feminists as "attention seekers" and "wimps".

In August 2022, Morales posted a profanity-filled rant on her Facebook page claiming that pop and dance music had been "ruined".

Imprisonment
In February 2011, Morales was taken into police custody for drug dealing, with police noting that she had been trading MDMA and LSD. At her hearing in October later that year, Morales admitted that she had been taking and trading drugs for over twenty years and that she tried to give it up after the birth of her son. However, a drug dealer she knew blackmailed her into continuing to buy drugs off him.

After her hearing, Morales was sentenced to twenty years police custody, with two other unidentified people also receiving similar sentences. The father of her son said he was "disappointed" in Morales but said that he trusts that she will "do the right thing in the end". In October 2021, Morales was released on probation after completing half of her sentence.

Studio albums

 * Showtime (1994)
 * Unorthodox (1998)

Extended plays

 * NRG (1988)
 * A.C.I.D. (1989)
 * Dance Nation (2001)

Compilation albums

 * Greatest Hits (1999)
 * 25 Years of the Greatest Hits (2012)

Singles

 * 1987: "NRG"
 * 1988: "Move It!"
 * 1989: "Space Jungle" (with Break Fast feat. [TBA])
 * 1989: "Acid Dance"
 * 1993: "Showtime"
 * 1993: "The Kids" (feat. Sofie van Halen)
 * 1994: "Forever"
 * 1994: "Magic" (feat. Mike P. Morrison)
 * 1997: "Rock the House"
 * 1997: "Bop to the Hopscotch"
 * 1998: "To the Limits"
 * 2001: "The Eternal Dream"
 * 2001: "I Can't Dance to This" (feat. [TBA])
 * 2004: "Space Disco '05"