Antonia Morales

Antonia Janneke Rie Morales (b. 29th August, 1964) is a semi-retired Spanish-Dutch singer, songwriter, rapper 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. In 1975, her family moved to the Dominion of Kuboia after her parents were offered "promising" jobs.

Morales never attended education pass the age of ten because the area she lived in had no school. Instead, her father organised a tutor to teach her basic communication and numeracy work twice a week. Through her tutor, Morales learnt about Kuboia potentially becoming an independent country from Jetania. She and her family became large supporters for the Kuboian Independence Movement, which led to her giving a speech in September 1984 that 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.

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

Family
Morales has an older half-brother and half-sister from her mother's side of the family. She also has an older sister who she shares both parents with. 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 of his last few years alive with him.

Through her older sister, Morales is the auntie 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 six 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. In 2021, shortly after her release from prison, Morales mentioned that she is on friendly terms with Vilet again.

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. 2015) and Monique (b. 2018), 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". Her songs are generally long, spanning over four minutes, and often include instrumental breaks and repeated chants and ad-libs.

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 was "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. She also admitted that she continued to trade drugs due to her music career "dying down" and needing another source of income.

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

 * NRG (1987)
 * A.C.I.D. (1991)
 * Golden (1995)
 * Magic (1998)
 * Unorthodox (2004)
 * Forever (2022)