It would be impossible to confine Sílvia Pérez Cruz to a single musical genre. She is both remarkably versatile and unmistakably distinctive—two qualities that rarely coexist, yet define her perfectly. Whatever style she embraces, she remains true to its essence without ever ceasing to be herself.

Between the ages of four and twenty-three, she undertook extensive musical studies, including classical piano and saxophone, solfège, cajón, harmony, jazz and flamenco singing, improvisation, arranging, jazz saxophone and composition. She graduated in Jazz Vocal Performance from the ESMUC (Catalonia College of Music).

She has taken part in countless recordings and artistic projects, collaborating with internationally acclaimed artists such as Gino Paoli, Stefano Bollani, Lluís Homar, Rocío Molina, Jorge Drexler, Hamilton de Holanda, Toquinho, Natalia Lafourcade, Lila Downs, Liniker, Maria Gadú, Liliana Herrero, Joan Manuel Serrat and Lluís Llach, among many others. She has also performed with the Spanish National Orchestra under the baton of Josep Pons.

Together with double bassist Javier Colina, she revived the Cuban filin tradition in the acclaimed project En la imaginación (2011). She was also co-founder and lead singer of the group Las Migas (2004–2010), and has performed as a duo with guitarist Toti Soler.

She made her debut as a composer and solo artist with 11 de novembre (Universal, 2012), an album that received both critical and public acclaim and was certified Gold. In 2014 she received a second Gold Record for granada (Universal, 2014), recorded in collaboration with Raül Fernández (Refree), who had also co-produced her debut album.

Throughout her career, Sílvia has also worked extensively in theatre, collaborating with directors such as Joan Ollé and Julio Manrique. She was the singing voice behind Pablo Berger's acclaimed film Blancanieves (Snow White), winner of ten Goya Awards in 2013, including Best Original Song.

In 2014, Lluís Homar premiered his production of Terra Baixa by Àngel Guimerà, featuring an original score composed by Sílvia. The following year she composed and recorded the soundtrack for Eduard Cortés' film Cerca de tu casa (Near Your House), a drama about Spain's housing crisis in which she also starred. This creative process gave rise to Domus (Universal Music, 2016), an album that earned her the Silver Biznaga for Best Original Score at the Málaga Film Festival, the award for Best Original Score at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF), the Gaudí Award for Best Original Score, and the Goya Award for Best Original Song for "Ai, ai, ai" in 2017. She was also nominated for the Goya Award for Best New Actress.

Domus also includes "No hay tanto pan", a song that has become something of an anthem and remains one of the most requested pieces in her concerts, alongside her celebrated interpretations of "Pequeño vals vienés" and "Gallo rojo, gallo negro".

Released in 2017, Vestida de nit (Universal Music) — named after the song written by her parents, Glòria Cruz (lyrics) and Càstor Pérez (music) — emerged from more than five years of touring with a string quintet. The album represents the culmination of an extensive exploration of sound, the dialogue between voice and strings, the freedom that arises when classically trained musicians move beyond the written score, and the possibilities opened up by improvisation. It combines beloved songs from Sílvia's repertoire with previously unreleased material, featuring arrangements by the artist herself alongside close collaborators such as Joan Antoni Pich, Javier Galiana de la Rosa and Carlos Montfort.

In July 2018, Grito Pelao premiered at the Festival d'Avignon. Created together with flamenco dancer and choreographer Rocío Molina, the production received the 2019 Max Award for Best Musical Composition (for Sílvia) and Best Dance Production. The work explores Molina's desire to become a single mother and grew out of a shared artistic investigation into emotion before form—the primal emotion that precedes both singing and dancing, the place where both disciplines meet.

Later that year, Sílvia contributed two original compositions and two interpretations to Álvaro Brechner's feature film A Twelve-Year Night (La noche de doce años), in which she also made a brief appearance as an actress. In the same period, she reunited with Lluís Homar to compose the original score for his acclaimed production of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano.
In 2019, Sílvia toured extensively as a duo with Menorcan pianist Marco Mezquida. The tour concluded in Japan with the recording of the live album MA. Live in Tokyo at the legendary Blue Note Tokyo.

On 2 October 2020, she released Farsa (género imposible) (Farce (An Impossible Genre)), a project bringing together the songs she had composed over the previous three years. Featuring thirteen original compositions with lyrics by Sílvia herself—alongside a handful of borrowed poems—the album reflects her fascination with the tension between appearance and reality, and with the question of how our inner fragility survives in a world increasingly dominated by surfaces. It explores the distance between what we see and what we truly hear, between visual spectacle and emotional truth.

Many of the songs were conceived in dialogue with other artistic disciplines—including cinema, dance, poetry and theatre—each of them seeking, in its own way, to expand and reinvent life. Presented in several different formats, the Farsa tour comprised more than eighty performances between 2020 and 2022.

Sílvia also composed the soundtrack for—and lent her voice to two characters in—the animated feature film Josep (2020), directed by the French illustrator Aurel. One of those animated characters was modelled on her own likeness. The film received France's prestigious Prix Lumière for Best Animated Feature, while Sílvia was honoured with the award for Best Original Score.

In 2022, she was awarded Spain's National Prize for Contemporary Music, presented by the Ministry of Culture in recognition of her outstanding artistic career. That same year she also received the Pop-Eye al Duende Award, as well as the Pávez Award for Best Original Score for her work on the short film Maruja (Berta García-Lacht, 2021).

She also took part in Territorios, a unique collaborative project alongside Argentine singer Liliana Herrero and Brazilian artist Maria Gadú, celebrating the dialogue between the musical traditions of Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula.

On 21 April 2023, Sílvia released Toda la vida, un día (All Life, One Day; Sony Music), an album of original compositions that celebrates every stage of life while reflecting on the cycles of nature, the value of deep friendship, the importance of slowness, and the power of collective singing. The record features collaborations with Salvador Sobral, Liliana Herrero, Juan Quintero, Pepe Habichuela, Carmen Linares and Natalia Lafourcade, among others, confirming it as one of the most accomplished and internationally acclaimed works of her career.

The release marked the beginning of an exceptionally active year. Alongside an extensive international tour presenting the album, Sílvia appeared as a special guest on more than twenty dates of Damien Rice's North American and European tours. She also reunited with Territorios for three celebrated performances in Barcelona, Madrid and Cartagena, joined Natalia Lafourcade as a special guest at her concert at Mexico City's Auditorio Nacional, and presented Toda la vida, un día at the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) in Mexico.

Throughout 2024, the successful Toda la vida, un día tour continued, surpassing eighty performances. Early in the year she premiered Gardel, Tangos y Milongas, a new programme with the Vallès Symphony Orchestra, appearing as featured soloist in its inaugural concerts.

She also collaborated on Residente's acclaimed album Las letras ya no importan, performing on the tracks "313"—which went on to win the Latin Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video and earned her a nomination as Best Songwriter—and "Artificial Inteligente".

The year brought numerous distinctions, including three awards from the Spanish Academy of Music, one from the Catalan Academy of Music, the +MÚSICAS Song of the Year Award, and the Aupa! Artist of the Year Award presented at BIME. She opened Barcelona's Grec Festival with three extraordinary concerts featuring guests such as Damien Rice, Natalia Lafourcade and Salvador Sobral, attracting nearly 6,000 audience members. She also performed alongside Brazilian songwriter Zé Ibarra in Spain and Brazil, released her celebrated Tiny Desk Concert, joined several dates of Residente's world tour, and issued Lentamente (2024), a collaborative album with Argentine guitarist Juan Falú—making 2024 one of the most prolific years of her career.

In 2025, Sílvia released a new collaborative album with Portuguese singer-songwriter Salvador Sobral. Sílvia & Salvador (Warner Music, 2025) features songs written especially for the project by Jorge Drexler, Dora Morelenbaum, Luísa Sobral, Carlos Montfort and other distinguished composers.

The project premiered at Tokyo's legendary Blue Note in April before embarking on a highly successful international tour, performing at major theatres and festivals throughout Spain, as well as in Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Uruguay, Belgium and Germany. Later that year, Sílvia was awarded the Encomienda con Placa de la Orden de Alfonso X el Sabio, one of Spain's highest civilian honours, presented by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in recognition of her outstanding contribution to culture.

In 2026, the Catalan artist received the Goya Award for Best Original Song, shared with Alba Flores, for "Flores para Antonio". She also performed in Punta Ballena (Uruguay), London's Union Chapel and Paris's legendary Olympia Theatre, where she marked International Women's Day on 8 March.

That same year she released Oral_Abisal (Sony Music Spain, 2026), her latest collection of original compositions. Following its extensive presentation tour across Europe, the project culminates in the most ambitious Latin American tour of her career to date, confirming Sílvia Pérez Cruz as one of the most singular and internationally respected voices in contemporary music.