Erika Dos Santos

Erika L. Dos Santos Ramos (Madrid, 1997), known artistically as Erika Dos Santos and Erika2Santos, is a Spanish rapper. She has been called a "pioneer" of women's freestyle and battle rap in Spain.

Biography Erika Dos Santos was born in Madrid in 1997, into a family originally from Cape Verde. That same year, she won second prize in the Sanse Urbano festival, behind fellow rapper Alberto Robledo Bustos. In 2018, she participated in the Spanish edition of the X Factor television programme, obtaining four "yeses" for her performance and in which she was compared to Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj.

Dos Santos has participated four times in the Red Bull Batalla de Gallos. Erika Dos Santos (left) and Sara Socas (right) performing together. She has also developed social projects that use rap as a form of social intervention. In 2018, she and Sara Socas gave workshops for teenagers at risk of social exclusion in high schools in the Community of Madrid.

In 2023, on the occasion of International Women's Day, Dos Santos was one of eight women honoured by the Efeminista media for their women's rights activism.