Colombian Juanes is immersed within the European tour to current his newest album, ‘Vida diaria’, which he launched in 2023 and with which he now involves Spain to supply a present during which he guarantees excessive doses of rock, partying and enjoyable: “I’m in my greatest model.”
After passing by way of Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and Norway, Juanes lands this Sunday on the Selvatic Málaga Fest pageant to evaluation his twenty-five years of profession. He’ll then go to Barcelona (July 2), Madrid (July 4), Gran Canaria (July 5) and Pontevedra (July 6), earlier than crossing the Atlantic to renew the tour of Latin America.
The album ‘Vida diaria’, which additionally offers its title to the tour, is probably the most private work by Juanes (Medellín, 1972). He composed it in the course of the Covid pandemic and its eleven songs mirror a number of the conditions he skilled throughout that interval of confinement and uncertainty, such because the arguments together with his spouse and his eldest daughter, then a young person, he explains in an interview with EFE.
“That crash was very exhausting, it moved my soul,” admits Juanes, whose actual title is Juan Esteban Aristizábal. He remembers that in that troublesome second he present in music a strategy to “let off steam” that allowed him to turn into “stronger and heal.”
Particular hyperlink with Spain
With ‘Vida diaria’, Juanes is as soon as once more embarking on a tour of Europe and America, accompanied by his spouse, Karen Martínez, making the separation from his household, which is the toughest half, “rather less troublesome” for him this time, particularly now that his three youngsters are older.
Spain, his subsequent cease, is sort of a second dwelling for Juanes, a rustic with which he has at all times maintained a particular bond, the place he feels beloved and has “nice associates”. “Spain has been important for me, it has been like a gateway to the remainder of Europe, and that’s one thing I’m grateful for,” he says.
Those that attend his concert events, he assures, will discover “the very best model” of Juanes, who guarantees to supply a present of “highly effective rock with many Latin components,” very completely different from what one is used to listening to on the radio.
“The band that accompanies me is highly effective, they’re tremendous musicians, and from begin to end we be sure that folks have an unimaginable time. For me, sound is crucial, I would like the music to sound nearly as good as attainable and supply good leisure, in order that coming to the live performance is a celebration,” he highlights.
There have been a number of turning factors in Juanes’ profession, one in every of which was the discharge of the album ‘Mi sangre’ (2004), which included the tune ‘La camisa negra’, which has turn into a real anthem of Latin pop rock.
Inflection level
The Colombian singer, composer and guitarist by no means imagined that this tune would turn into so “tremendous well-known,” since “it was very native, like very celebration.” Nevertheless it ended up going world wide and turning into one in every of his most iconic songs, together with others like ‘I ask God’, ‘It is for you’, ‘Pictures’, ‘I fall in love’ or ‘I am price nothing with out your love’. ‘.
“Each time I sing the tune, I get so pleased to see how individuals who don’t even converse Spanish attempt to sing it. I like it, it’s very humorous and attention-grabbing,” she says.
He says that when he composes a tune he lets himself be carried away by improvisation. First the melodies come out, then the guitars and eventually the phrases, and he by no means thinks regarding which tune may join extra with the viewers.
“Typically you assume it’s one factor and it seems to be one other; generally you make a tune that out of the blue doesn’t appear the very best to you, however to a big a part of the general public it appears the very best. Then you definitely don’t know what to assume, every part might be very relative,” he says.
For Juanes, successful tune is nothing greater than a tune that he “loves” and needs to point out to the general public. Whether or not or not it turns into in style later is now not as much as him. “I desire that type of success to a tune that I’ve to make to be performed on a sure radio station or in a sure format. That doesn’t appear “cool” to me,” he emphasizes.
At its greatest
Juanes assures that he’s at present in his “greatest second” personally and professionally. “I really feel full, wholesome and desirous to stay creatively. I really feel good, superb,” remarks the artist, who a couple of years in the past suffered from melancholy and needed to cease, relaxation and heal his psychological well being.
He remembers that since he was 14 or 15 years outdated he suffered from nervousness and melancholy, however then it was like “taboo” to speak regarding these matters.
Now, primarily based on her expertise, she advocates the necessity to verbalize and deal with psychological issues and to hunt the assistance and time wanted to regain steadiness: “Understanding the steadiness of life is discovering happiness.”
Juanes, who’s already composing the songs for his subsequent album, received his fourth Anglo Grammy for Greatest Latin Rock Album for ‘Vida Cotidiana’ final February, turning into the Colombian with probably the most awards on this class in historical past.
He has printed 11 albums, bought greater than 18 million information and has additionally received 25 Latin Grammys, 13 Lo Nuestro Awards, 12 MTV Awards, 10 Billboard Latin Music Awards and a pair of NRJ Awards, amongst others.
He says that every of those awards is a recognition of your entire group that accompanies him on the tour and makes him really feel that his work “might be very worthwhile.”
Malaga / EFE
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2024-06-30 08:06:24