By Maribel Arenas Vadillo |
Bogotá (EFE) promises to surpass their two previous albums together.
“By saying that these songs will be about salt water, I mean the force and impact that the ocean, the seas, the waves have… It’s like a metaphor for strength, for power,” Medrano explained in an interview with EFE in Bogotá.
This album that will be released “soon” is the result of a writing and pre-production process over the last two years between Colombia, Mexico and the United States.
Medrano, from the warehouse to the studios
Born in Cartagena and adopted from Bogotá, since he moved to the capital at the age of three, the artist claims to be a “man from the coast” whose music has “voluntarily evolved and involuted” to the extent that, at At first, “I was betting on poetry and metaphor” and now on other “simpler” things.
Medrano’s first flirtations with music began when he was given his first guitar as a “very young boy.” However, his career began when he came of age, began working in a musical instrument store, began to write his own songs and, finally, decided to make the song his life project.
Today, with two Latin Grammys for “Best New Artist” and “Best Singer-Songwriter Album”, he has become the most listened to Cartagena on Spotify in the last decade and dreams of becoming “one of the biggest icons of Latin pop.” that have existed up to now.”
In this sense, the artist who revered singer-songwriters like Jorge Drexler or Silvio Rodríguez, grew up in a house where they danced to the beat of salsa and boleros and trained in a school where punk and rock and roll were breathed, He assured that the key to success is in experimentation. His only unwritten rule of his: include a bolero and a reggae song on each record.
As part of this path of achieving goals, the singer released a new single this week entitled “La primera vez”, in collaboration with the Colombian actress and singer Juliana Velásquez; a theme that will be part of the Netflix series that bears the same name, set in the seventies.
sing to a world without love
Whether in the silence of his home or on top of a mountain, Medrano is inspired by the people he loves, nature and the universe to compose love songs with which he intends to “make the world a better place”.
«The only thing that has screwed up the world is humans (…) and I believe that humans have screwed up the world due to a lack of love. That’s why I make love songs,” added the man from Cartagena.
However, Medrano qualified that he sings of love “for now”, since he feels that he has to compose titles on other themes related to nature, spirituality, self-love or the universe.