Venezuelan singer and songwriter Danny Ocean left the nation in 2015 because of the financial and political disaster in his homeland, a journey to the US that pressured him to separate from his associate on the time and impressed him to write down the worldwide hit that catapulted him to fame, ‘Me Rehúso’.
“I assist support to refugees as a result of it’s a trigger that brings folks collectively and I really feel mirrored within the difficulty,” mentioned the 32-year-old from Caracas in an interview with Efe in Washington on the event of his live performance this Friday on the Kennedy Heart for World Refugee Day, celebrated yearly on June 20.
Whereas he settled in Miami (Florida), his teenage associate remained in Venezuela, an hostile expertise that isn’t solely mirrored within the fashionable single launched in 2016, but in addition within the social consciousness he manifests.
“I wish to collaborate with good causes and if I might help by sending a message from my platform, I do,” says Daniel Alejandro Morales Reyes, as his actual title is.
With this conviction, Danny Ocean has been collaborating with the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) since 2019, when he was invited to carry out on the Nansen Refugee Prize gala, and since then his relationship has been remodeled, based on the artist himself, in “a really stunning relationship.”
Union
In truth, along with his music he desires to “unite folks,” which is why he provides that he doesn’t wish to contribute to debates that would polarize residents.
On this sense, he believes that social networks are a superb instrument to attach people and socialize humanitarian issues, which is why he requires utilizing these platforms effectively, since he believes that the issue lies with their customers and the way in which they how they obtain the knowledge.
On this event, UNHCR, along with the Kennedy Heart itself, was one of many organizers of this Friday’s live performance, which had the target of celebrating the braveness, resistance and creativity of refugees from all over the world, which is why it was devoted to all folks pressured to flee warfare, violence and persecution.
This transient efficiency was held following the artist printed ‘REFLEXA’ on Could 2, his third studio album with which he desires to convey “a constructive message that connects with the general public.”
In response to him, the good studying he takes from the brand new album has been the actual fact of getting ready it throughout a live performance tour, for the reason that earlier two – ’54+1′ (2019) and ‘@dannocean’ (2022) – had been written with out no strain; the primary from his room and the second throughout the pandemic.
Repertoire
For this occasion, the singer selected a complete of 5 songs that replicate his total work, for the reason that choice contained ‘Volare’ and ‘Fuera del Mercado’ from his second album, ‘Amor’ from his current launch and, lastly, ‘Swing’ and ‘Me Rehúso’, belonging to his first work.
“As you develop, music matures with you since you are impressed by the tales you acquire all through your life,” says Danny Ocean regarding his musical evolution.
Together with his revolutionary proposal, which ranges from reggaeton to Latin pop, he has managed to be the primary Venezuelan singer to exceed one billion views on YouTube and two billion world downloads by platforms reminiscent of iTunes and Spotify.
The artist has stopped within the American capital earlier than the ‘Reflexa’ tour of the US formally begins in September, by which he’ll share his music in 25 cities and can transmit his “world sound” with which he doesn’t need pigeonholing into genres.
Washington / EFE
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2024-06-23 01:14:44
