The Colombian began as a vocalist for the rock band Poligamia in the nineties. Their new song is special because it features ‘deep concepts’.
On the verge of completing 30 years of a long and rewarding career, which includes three Latin Grammy Awards and many radio hits, the Colombian Andres cepeda he confesses in an interview with Efe that he is living his best moment and dares to think that “there is still a lot of music to do”.
“I feel that I am at a very important moment in my career: it is when I have the most audience, when I have the most opportunities to present my music (…) I would like to think that there is still a lot of time and a lot of music to do”, reveals Cepeda, who promotes the single “If everything ends”, that he launched this week with the Mexican Joss Favela.
Just the performer of hits like “The best there is in my life” O “Desperate” he values the possibility of continuing to grow by meeting new composers like Favela and working “with other artists.”
“New horizons and new ideas are opening up and as long as there is this desire to make music and to continue creating different things, I think we will continue with the idea that the career is still going on, that it is still starting in many aspects,” he says.
“IF EVERYTHING IS OVER”
Cepeda’s new single is a nostalgic ballad like the ones that have characterized his career and talks about the end of a relationship, its consequences and the fear of permanently losing the other person.
“I like everything about the song: I like the melody, the lyrics, the story, where it comes from, the concept that everything ends but sometimes one is not able to accept that things are over. (…) I liked putting together a very Mexican style, very much like Joss’s way of writing songs, and mixing that with a very rock / pop sound, ”he says.
The Colombian also appreciated the experience of having worked with the singer of “The magic of your eyes “, who “had been following the trail” for some time.
So, he says, “putting those two worlds together, Joss’s and mine, seemed like a lot of fun. He is a very talented guy, very cool and with whom we have plans to continue making music together. We got on very well ”.
MUSIC FOR ALL MOMENTS
For Cepeda, who became known as the lead singer of the rock band Poligamia in the nineties, his new song is special because it has “very deep concepts, very beautiful, lyrics that are very rich to hear, very well written, a delicious melody ”.
“That is one thing that I miss a bit about our pop music, which merges a lot with other genres and that is fine, but it is good to sit down and listen to a well-written letter, with a well-felt thing, with a very special melody, with a big, very careful arrangement, with a slightly more artistic sense ”, he expresses.
In that sense, Cepeda referred to the controversy between J Balvin and Residente, when the latter criticized the Colombian for calling for a boycott of the Latin Grammys and compared his music to a “hot dog cart”, when there are artists who They make Michelin star songs.
“You are very right (Residente), there is music for all moments, tastes (…) There is more exquisite music for more exquisite moments and there is simpler music for simpler moments and it seems to me that they do not necessarily make it bad but rather it’s different, it’s music for different moments ”, he points out.
RETURN TO THE STAGES AFTER THE PANDEMIC
For Cepeda, returning to the stage last August with Fonseca, his “compadre”, on a tour of the United States was “very exciting” because “although we were very active with the topic of streaming and virtual presentations, we did one thing and the other is certainly not the same as being in front of an audience ”.
“Being back on stage, with the audience (…) with the people singing, we didn’t imagine that we were going to get so excited when that moment arrived. We enjoyed it very much, we did 11 cities in the US, four shows are waiting for us in Colombia, we go to other countries, ”he says.
The Colombian singer also reflected on an experience that he lived many years ago when he had a vocal accident that forced him to be in “total silence” for two months and that showed him that everything could have ended.
“When one is in silence and with himself he begins to think a number of things, to understand things that sometimes the noise and the conversation that one has with the world does not allow it. After I returned, I started my therapy very slowly, so that I could sing again in peace and calm and when I recovered my voice I was very grateful to have come out of that experience well, “he concludes. (AND)
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