Colombian singer Carlos Vives released the official music video on Tuesday for Buscando el mar, a collaborative track featuring Dominican musician Juan Luis Guerra.
The song forms part of Vives' latest album, El Último Disco, Vol. 1, a project that pays homage to the literary work of Gabriel García Márquez and Caribbean musical roots.
Inspired by García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, the song takes its starting point from the fictional character José Arcadio Buendía and his search for an outlet to the sea.
Vives and Guerra present that search as a metaphor for freedom through a mix of Caribbean rhythms and pop elements, featuring accordion, percussion, guitars, and piano.
Filmed across the beaches, mangroves, and coastlines of the Colombian Caribbean, the visual narrative follows the two artists as they celebrate nature, local identity, and their connection to the sea.
Vives is widely recognized for blending traditional Colombian vallenato with pop, while Guerra is a celebrated Dominican singer and songwriter credited with popularizing bachata and merengue internationally. García Márquez, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, frequently set his literary works along Colombia's Caribbean coast.
Chart Success Across Latin America
The video release comes alongside continued commercial success for El Último Disco, Vol. 1. The album's single Te dedico was included by Billboard magazine among the best songs of 2026 after reaching number one on both the Latin Airplay and Tropical Airplay charts.
Another track from the album, Tuyo y nada más, also reached number one on radio charts in Colombia, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and Chile, consolidating the reception of Vives' record project.
Billboard is an American music industry publication that tracks song popularity across international radio and streaming services through its standardized broadcast charts.
Benefit Concert for Earthquake Relief
Vives has also confirmed his participation in A Concert for Venezuela, scheduled for August 23 in Los Angeles. The benefit event will be led by conductor Gustavo Dudamel alongside the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra.
Organizers planned the concert to raise funds for Venezuelan communities affected by recent earthquakes in the oil-producing country.
Dudamel has served as the music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2009. The orchestra, founded in 1919, is one of the most prominent symphonic institutions in the United States.
