María Pérez I Málaga, (EFE).- Every artist needs something to inspire them to pick up their notebook and start composing, and for the Sevillian singer-songwriter Beret this task becomes impossible if he “is happy”, since, he assures in a interview with EFE, he does it “out of necessity”.
Creating his compositions serves as “total relief” when he is “bad”: “More than something frivolous, I do it out of necessity,” he says.
The lyrics of his latest release, ‘Kill me’, stem from this, from the need to tell how, during an episode in his life, what he was experiencing was “killing” him without him noticing: “This song is about toxicity and to stay in the place where you should least be”.
“The melody came out without me realizing it”, says Beret of ‘Mátame’, which in just one month on the market has already accumulated 2.6 million views on Spotify, a reception that the singer considers “brutal”.
Beret recovers in this song the voice and the piano of his beginnings, in which he recorded at home with bases that he “found on the internet”. He returns to the “simplicity” that this combination offered him, with which he transmits “enough without getting lost in the instrumental”.
Performance in Malaga
Beret is performing this Saturday at the ‘Sabatic Fest’ festival in Malaga, where he will sing ‘Mátame’ live for the first time.
The Sevillian returned years later to the city where he was born as an artist, since the first time he set foot on stage was in a concert hall in the capital of the Costa del Sol, La Trinchera: “Going back to Malaga makes me melancholy. There are people who went to that first concert who are going to come back this Saturday to listen to me”.
“In my concerts there is a concentration of emotions,” maintains the artist, who at the age of 26 has gone from singing in small venues to touring throughout Spain and American countries such as Argentina, Colombia, Mexico or the United States.
Places that have also inspired him in his professional stage. From two recent trips, one to Miami and the other to Mallorca, he brought with him eight songs that “will surely be part” of his next album, which promises to be “more diverse” than his previous album, ‘Resiliencia’.
“In Miami I made avant-garde, more urban things. However, in Mallorca what I did was more organic”, explains Beret. Compositions for which he used American producers who gave him a “different influence”.
Open to all genders
Now, the urban rhythms of Argentina, Andrés Suárez, The Weeknd or Joaquín Sabina are the composer’s main sources of inspiration, although he does not close: “I listen to a little bit of everything”.
Many of these artists who once served as his inspiration have now become fellow professionals and students.
The Beret who uploaded reggae songs to YouTube in 2016 did not imagine that he would end up collaborating with some of his references, among which Estopa stands out, with the song ‘Diablos’: “Working with them was an honor. I have been listening to them since he was a snot ”.
The collaborations have allowed him to “get out of his comfort zone”, says the singer, since despite the fact that some seem the “antithesis”, if there is “good conversation and a common point” between the artists, they can be achieved.
It’s been seven years since he began his professional career and four years ago that he got tired of rap and reggae: “It wasn’t enough for me,” says the artist, who decided to change and scale other genres that would allow him to “transmit the message” he wanted to give.
Messages that, despite varying in form, have helped him achieve an evolution of which he is proud and with which he has come to know himself much better: “People stay more for what I say than for how I say it.” EFE