In a world where everyone says they are leaving and then they come back, at 39 years oldRayden is clear that he is facing his final stretch“After this one I have seven concerts left,” he explains.

Owning his own countdown is the culmination of a 23-year career in which the where, the how much and the why have been the least important: “AndOr I’m happy to be the owner of my how and know when I can stop a dream that I knew was going to last as long as it was going to last.”

23 years in which it has been impossible to put a label on him. A writer, a poet, a rapper and a virtuoso who has filled stages by fusing genres and collaborating with all kinds of artists.

And last night, at the Son Rías Baixas festival in Pontevedra, he wanted to share the stage again. And although now it is with familiar faces, it all started among friends. “One summer night when, because I didn’t go to parties, one said, ‘I have songs, I’m a DJ,’ and I said, ‘I write poetry, it shouldn’t be that difficult,'” he recalls of his beginnings.

That’s when talent makes the difficult seem easy. And turns the defect into a virtue. “I have always had a very big wound of abandonment and I think I got really hooked on the stage because I felt like no one could abandon me there.“, he notes.

Her sixth album began with the question ‘what fits into a song?’. In seven concerts she will have to ask herself what has fit into a career that she has pursued in her own way.