Morat: ‘It’s the best time to sing in Spanish’

Colombian band I have towhat a harvest Musical hits and travels NOW As part of the tour for his fourth album, he continues to bet on Spanish: “We’re very firm with Spanish right now.”

“Music in Spanish is reaching where it has never been before (…) Today is the best time to sing spanish“, says the singer and guitarist Juan Pablo Isaza in an interview with EFE via video conference from Charlotte, North Carolina.

The band failed presentations in different cities of the United States such as Miami, Washington, San Antonio and Los Angeles, where it will culminate on February 25.

“All these kinds of cultural encounters around Latin community strike differently when one is far from home or when one is a stranger, so it was very ‘cool‘see the impact the tour has had here in the states, this is the fourth time we’ve toured here, and growth of that community,” continues Isaza.

carry’pop-folk‘ of the Latin music that catapulted them to stardom in 2014, the Bogota-based band notes that touring the United States is “always exciting,” especially since “cities are harder to access” mostly because of the language.

And although it is the fourth time that they delight their followers in North American countrythey continue to guard error from play in big cities such as New York, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles and Miami. “We are very proud to be back,” they say.

What’s coming

These are the last concerts of the tour “If yesterday was today”but they are starting another round of stadiums that will take them to several countries and with which they will return home.

“The tour hasn’t been announced yet, but it’s great for us an event and we believe that later, little by little, people will understand why,” they predict.

The people of Bogotá feel very safe after the support their EP has achievedBefore dawn‘, and certainly this year”new music is coming“: “We already have a lot of advanced songs at the production level for the rest of the year, even part of next year,” says drummer Martín Vargas.

And although “Everything is secret right now“, they assure EFE “that a lot of ‘cool’ music is coming.”

What excites them the most and makes them nervous, among other things, is that they will be the first people from Bogotá to fill the stadium. El Campin of the capital of Colombia, not once, but twice.

“We feel very proud and at the same time very surprised that no one has done this before, but without a doubt it’s a turning point for us as a band and in a way it’s also a turning point for music in Bogotá because it reflects that new projects and new things are being heard that come out of the city, so it seems very nice to us,” said guitarist Juan Pablo Villamil.

Dreams and AI

Morat still has “many, many dreams to fulfill”: “The dream at this point is to keep growing wherever that is, but together (…) We still feel that new people are discovering our music and that impresses us,” according to Isazi .

At their recent concert in Washington they saw a Cluster from people who didn’t know them. They told us ‘we have no idea who you are, but from now on we will come to all your concerts,’ says the musician.

He adds: “It’s amazing because it kind of shows that the ceiling is as high as you want to see it.”

The future also brings challenges, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and dilemmas caused by creation Songs that quickly go viral social networkswithout any artist rights regulations that this technology mimics.

In fact, Morat already has his own AI-generated song, Manuel Valdez’s ‘Inevitable’, which he included technology The voice of a resident of Bogotá and a user on social networks confirmed that it is genuine and does not believe that it could have been made by artificial intelligence.

“It is an interesting topic that causes so many headaches emotion of what is happening; We’ve always been very open to technological development (…) On the one hand it’s inevitable that it will continue to happen,” says singer and bassist Simón Vargas, but also “there’s a question of rights that we have to be very clear about.”