The Madrid artist Rayden will say goodbye to the stage. But first he will release his latest album, “La victoria imposible”, and the tour to present his latest work will end. “Since I was little I have the feeling that in life I have been guided by the curse of the little brother, who chooses everything by discarding when he sees the mistakes of the older one. I did not have a vocation for music, but I did for writing”, he has alleged as one of the reasons for his departure after having fully felt that feeling with his recent first novel.

David Martinez Alvarezbetter known as Rayden, published earlier this year the work “The approach of the cactus woman and the balloon man”, a reflection on the current love and loneliness which, a priori, seemed like just one more notch in a multifaceted career that also includes collections of poems and which started 20 years ago as a musician, with 7 albums and more than 100 songs. The singer also has a song with that title.

“Since 2009 I knew that I wanted to make a hexalogy of albums. I consider that everything interesting that an artist can tell without repeating himself fits there, in those 100 songs. And it was strange, because I couldn’t see beyond 2021,” he says. His participation that same year with the song “Calle de la llorería” in the first edition of Benidorm Fest, the Spanish pre-selection for Eurovision, helped to consolidate a career that only a few months before had experienced one of its great milestones when appearing before a capacity massive in the Wizink Center of Madrid to celebrate two decades of career.

“At the moment I saw myself there and people told me: ‘You’ve made it’, I thought that no matter how hungry I was, in music I think I was already saying goodbye to things”, he reflects on what that moment meant, like the pandemic, which made him consider many vital concepts. Just a month after publishing his eighth and last album, of which he says he is very proud, he recognizes the apparent paradox of his decision finding himself in one of his “best creative moments” and also about to make his television debut as co-advisor on the Atresmedia program “La Voz”.

“When I finished the album I felt calm. I thought that she was already there, that she had to let go. I wanted to choose my way, to embrace music from another side and dedicate myself to the novel, “he adds before a career that he considers” honest “and that he does not want to be” distorted “. launch next April 21 “the impossible victory” will continue a tour “for the album itself, for the public and for the band, which had just eaten the hiatus from the pandemic”. It will last for a year and a half and, as he has confessed, he would like it to end in his city, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid).

“I’m not going to do what others, who leave music and come back soon after. This is a final farewell“, has assured Rayden, who has already started working on his second novel, which also leaves pending the publication of two collaborations with Álvaro de Luna and Juan Pablo Vega and who does not rule out continuing in the anonymous part of the music industry, “as A&R or composing for others”.