“Can I kiss you?”: This is how the romantic story began between the shy Juanes and his wife Karen, the woman to whom he dedicated “Gris” after he believed he was losing her after almost 20 years of marriage

A love story between the singer Juanes and his wife Karen Martinez It is worth telling because, although they are considered one of the most solid couples in the world of entertainment, they also went through difficult moments that pushed them to their limits.

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The couple will soon celebrate 19 years of marriage since they tied the knot in secret on August 6, 2004 in Miami, but they are adding another year to their idyll in addition to what they have actually been together for just over two decades, during which time they have consolidated their marriage with three children Dove, Moon and Dante.

On May 18, the Colombian artist released his latest album “Daily Life” on which he included eleven songs, two of which “Gris” and “Cecilia” bear the stamp of his wife.

The first of these songs “talks about a moment, let’s say the height of my crisis with Cecilia,” he told Billboard magazine, referring to the episode that separated him from his wife for at least eight months.

“It was a very strong discussion, days of great frustration. Art and music become catharsis and medicine. This GREY song is about that difficult time I was going through in my relationship from a more poetic, artistic and conceptual point,” he said in statements quoted by the Chicago Tribune.

While the other “Cecilia” It is especially dedicated to his wife who also bears this name. For this work, she collaborated with Juan Luis Guerra, one of Karen’s favorite artists.

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In various interviews, Juanes talks about these songs and explains their meaning in the midst of a turbulent crisis that they lived through and which has now passed. That’s why media like Fama remember the beginnings of the couple and how, despite the shyness of the singer-songwriter, they took it upon themselves to write a romantic story.

How Juanes and Karen Martínez met

Juan Esteban Aristizabal Vasquez and Karen Martínez met in 2000, when she participated as an additional model in the video “We can do damage”remember Glory quoting the artist’s statements in an interview given by the Mexican Yordi Rosado in Medellín in early 2023.

“That song brought us together,” said the 50-year-old translator, who at the time “was very shy” and needed the help of one of his collaborators to approach her when the entire work crew left for dinner after finishing. recordings.

“I was too shy, Andrés, who works with me, helped me sit near her. That evening we went to eat, we went home and I didn’t ask him for the phone,” he told the anecdote. One night after that meeting, another date came and from then on they became inseparable.

“I didn’t say to him: do you want to be my girlfriend? I said to him: can I kiss you? And that’s how our relationship began, said Juanes in a conversation with a Mexican journalist, whose topic about his wife he addressed from minute 59:10.

For the translator of “La camisa negra”, their marriage is full of “moments that are beautiful and those that are difficult”, but admits that they learned something from each other and that is why they overcame the difficulties.

For this very reason, when Juanes started preparing “Daily Life”, he dedicated “Cecilia” to his wife, and in the recording of the official video, he included the whole family as protagonists, reports Semana media.

A song full of poetry that was a special gift for her, with which she thinks about how to put her anger aside and fall in love again.

“It was very nice to be able to be with them (her daughters) and have an eternal memory of that moment, theirs, ours, all of us as a family. Video made with so much love, with wonderful people and besides my song”, commented the actress and model in podcast Driven by Juanes.

With “Everyday Life”, Juanes already has ten solo albums under his belt, but this last one has original material and compositions that try to reexamine aspects such as love, family and emotions. (AND)