Elena Rose was stunned when Ed Sheeran asked her to write Spanish verse for Thinking Out Loud
Venezuelan-American singer and songwriter Elena Rose was gobsmacked when Ed Sheeran got her to pen another verse for his hit Thinking Out Loud in Spanish.
Elena Rose was astonished when Ed Sheeran asked her to write a new Spanish verse for Thinking Out Loud.
The Venezuelan-American singer and songwriter went viral this year after the music superstar tasked her with writing a new verse for his 2014 hit but found it extraordinary that she was requested to do so.
Asked if she felt a sense of imposter syndrome following Ed's approach, Elena told The Hollywood Reporter: "Of course. When he was like, 'You should write, in Spanish, the second verse', I was like, 'Why would I do that? I don't want to disrespect your song. But I'm going to do it with all the love. I'm going to do it, not to show that I can do it, but because it's more about making it fun.'
The songwriter was particularly proud when the Camera hitmaker uploaded their version of the song on social media – where it received plenty of popularity.
Elena recalled: "When I sang to him in the rehearsal, I was like, 'This is what I did. If you don't like it, we don't have to do it. I'm so happy to meet you.'
"But the reason we had the video on social media was because he liked it a lot, and he posted it. He was like, 'What happened?' It exploded. I was like, 'Latin America came through. Venezuela came through.'"
Elena has penned tracks for artists including Bad Bunny, Christina Aguilera and Jennifer Lopez before embarking on a recording career in her own right and explained that she never intended to become a songwriter.
The 30-year-old star said: "I wasn't looking to be a songwriter. It found me, and it felt like something I had to do. It prepared me because when I started doing it with other artists, I would get home and I felt so drained. I would give all my heart and soul in that space.
"Along the way, I learned how to give without giving the parts of me that I can't take back."
Elena revealed that she is determined to do the country of Venezuela proud with her work amid political turmoil in the South American nation.
She explained: "For everything that we've been going through, I want to give Venezuelans a reason to smile.
"I love Venezuelan slang, our words. I love my culture, our colours, and I want to share it with the world. To know that my songs are going somewhere very far from home, but they have home in them, I feel grateful for that."
