The Venezuelan Karina brings her intimate show to Ecuador: You cannot put an individual like Bad Bunny in the bag of famous Latin American composers

Her voice is still intact, her music is current in each of the lives of the followers who – as she affirms – have followed her for more than two decades and the new ones who join her community. From her beloved Venezuela, with El Ávila accompanying her from her window in Caracas, where she is on a tour of presentations, the singer Karina connects with Diario EL UNIVERSO, to offer us details of her next show in Guayaquil and Portoviejo.

She returns to Ecuador excited, meeting the dates postponed by the pandemic and happy that the face-to-face scenarios she has traveled throughout her career are reactivated. With songs to be released and an album of duets in production, the Miami-based artist, who through her songs has touched the hearts of many generations, also speaks of the responsibility of artists and the industry of the content of the lyrics in the new proposals.

The interpreter of songs like Save me, I know how it hurts, Who, plans to present his intimate concert Karina among friends, next November 26, at the UEES convention center, at 20:00. Tickets on sale at Ticketshow and reservations at 099-906-7872.

You come to sing about love and heartbreak in your show, what do you have in store for your audience in Ecuador?

That day we are going to have one of those magical reunions that my people are used to, of course going through a wonderful journey through time of more than three decades of music, stories, tales and anecdotes that people have passed. with me, so that’s what reunion is about, telling us what has happened to us in recent years. And I say what has happened to us because there is always a very nice interaction with the public and it becomes more beautiful when the places are a little smaller, because in Ecuador I usually do in those huge squares and stadiums, and really although it is very wonderful there is no such close interaction.

So, people in these slightly smaller places dare to say things to me, to ask me things, well, I think that is the beauty of these spaces and we are going to sing all those songs that have not been sung before, although already they know them.

In Ecuador he will have two shows and from there he continues his tour of Venezuela …

Yes really, I am fulfilling these small concerts that were going to be done since the pandemic, that is why we have not extended. Right now I am in the stage of complying with my people here from Venezuela who also call me and have me waiting, just like in the rest of the world. In this pause between one and the other I am going to do those two shows (Guayaquil and Portoviejo), obviously from here this year there are no more dates because the tour here (in Venezuela) is longer.

The streaming It was the platform that allowed you to continue singing in a pandemic. How was it for you to adapt to these new platforms and now return to the classroom?

Look, I’m honest, I have doing lives for five years, every Tuesday and always made a live musical a month, so I was already involved a little earlier in all this, warming up. However, nothing pushed us as hard as this pandemic did. I think that apart from the technological thing that I still go, you know, trying and learning and making disasters of the technological issue, I think that we also learned to connect, connect beyond the lines, beyond the cable, the platforms, I think We learned many artists to connect with people in a different way, because that was the only way, and when there is no option, one does everything.

I started to become more active, since I could no longer make music with live musicians, I started to create a karaoke night, and they returned to karaoke every Tuesday, and so we went along. Both I to you and you to me. We all go through a pandemic, we are not talking about countries, we are not talking about circumstances, we are talking about a global thing. So it was very nice to translate and see that the need forces us. How good that these platforms are here to stay and are going to expand our spectrum of possibilities, not only to those of us who have been artists for so many years, but to the new generations who need these outings so badly.

This return to the physical stage, how do you take it? Did you ever think that you would never sing with a live audience again?

No, I think I never thought about that (stop singing live), without a doubt we all go through that uncertainty that we had in all aspects, especially in this entertainment industry that we were the first to suspend because it is about accumulating the as many people as possible, and I come from that stage, I was born on that stage live. So even though we were able to somehow survive many through these platforms, the human connection is unsurpassed and irreplaceable. I never thought that this (the pandemic) was going to be forever. We are in a time when scientific technology is also advancing, but you have to believe and put all the effort into science as well. What has happened to us has to leave us a legacy as a community.

I want to say something important: we are still in a pandemic, it is not over, we are trying to survive, but doing it in a conscious way so that people understand that they still have to take care of themselves, that they still have to put on the mask, we have to take care of each other. others and thus move forward together. That is the only way.

The artists during the confinement were responsible for accompanying us during that time, they shared their day to day, sang to their audience, spoke with them while the uncertainty overwhelmed, they became closer …

Without a doubt we play an essential role and it is good that you credit us, I take it because I was also part of that movement, and I think we accompanied each other because without the viewer what do we do, nothing more video. I think that communion, that interaction made us part of this new reality, the new reality is that we have to become aware again, that we are together and that when it happens to one, it happens to all, that we need each other and how beautiful it is. part of it. See how Netflix and all those platforms came together and stayed there forever. If you take Netflix away from me, I think I’ll kill myself in 30 minutes (laughs), I don’t want to know my days without Netflix, don’t leave me without it.

We take infinite affection for all these things on the platform and I hope that we have also understood that artists have this normal life and that we also get sick and suffer and that not everything is serpentine and lights, we also have our little hearts.

At present, music includes raw lyrics, with explicit sexual content, that even children listen to, sing and dance, as an artist and mother, what is your position on the various proposals that address these issues and that are normalized every time plus?

Yes, it is very unfortunate. I think you have touched on a very important point, the innocence of children who sometimes do not know what they are saying but repeat it and repeat it and eventually all those things that they hear, it becomes natural once they understand it, because also children grow and also grow very fast.

I am also a mother and this hypersexualization of music and of the human being is very rude for one, especially as a mother. Seeing your daughter, all the movements is as if they were in the act (…) seeing these behaviors so primary in the human being in general, from little children and it extends to people who no longer even fit them well, even bigger people who have joined this movement. It is very disappointing, painful and sad because innocence has a wonderful charm.

You cannot put an individual like Bad Bunny, for example, in the bag of famous Latin American composers, for example, it does not seem to me, it gives me a lot of sadness more than anything and I do not mean by this that the entire urban genre is like that, there are things that are very funny, that are even for dancing, that are even suggestive and still are funny.

I also come from a time when erotic sauce existed, but it still didn’t go that far. Right now it is direct, there is no romance, imagine that I come from the time of the letters, there is no longer a flirtation, there is no romance, there is no courtship, there is no illusion, it is direct to the act, to the skin and naturalizing things that are natural is fine, but there are things that are not unnecessary. And right now we are talking about seeds, pills.

These songs go viral thanks to platforms such as TikTok, in which each user appears dancing to the fashionable theme, be it a child or an adult …

From zero we go to a thousand. You mention something important that I think is also getting confused and that is respect, one thing is that I respect all genres and another thing is unlimited openness. How far does your respect go, until it reaches, you know, mine, why don’t you respect me too? I am a very open woman, with a very open mind, I have a very particular son who is transgender and that is very different and everything, but I do not impose the story on anyone and no one has to accept me. Me with talking about this in a didactic way, to open people’s minds is enough for me.

And the music industry has a lot of responsibility in this, because they have also been participants and accomplices and have also marginalized other genres, which sell a lot, which are very popular and are still alive.

And in your new projects, what are you working on now?

I did a collaboration this year with a boy much younger than me named Enrique Ramill, who did a beautiful version of a song called The other and before that I made a song called I love me, which can be found on all digital platforms. Right now I am going to make a single that will be released next quarter of the year and then I am going to make an album of duets that I have very close to hand. We hope that this will come out in the middle of next year. I can’t get too far ahead of you. (AND)