Fonseca: “Music says a lot about what the country is”

Singer-songwriter Fonseca points out that music serves to change the world image of his native Colombia, in an interview with EFE on the occasion of the release of his song “Si tú me quieres” with Juan Luis Guerra, in which he turns to a more tropical style.

“I think music says a lot about what a country and its people are, and in the case of Colombians, it has become a flag and a very special message about who we really are,” said Fonseca, who is promoting “Da ti love me” in Miami ahead of his new album. about which he does not want to hint much and for which there is no date.

“At the end of the day, always inside Colombia we wanted to justify the name of our country for the history we had -the violence– i music, music it was a way to show our true colors, our roots and our culture,” said the 43-year-old artist, winner of seven Latin Grammy and nominated for three Grammys.

fonseca He doesn’t give many hints about what he is like or when the one who will be his will emerge. tenth album in about 20 years careeralthough he makes it clear that this will mark a change from his last two works, “Agustín” (2018) and “Viajante” (2022).

TROPICAL AND DELICIOUS SOUND

“This time I feel like I want to very organic soundvery tropical and very tasty, that’s how I see the next album,” said the former winner Billboard Awards of Latin music for “Best Tropical Album” for the album “Corazón” (2005).

“I’m coming from recording two albums where I worked with different producers, different sounds, a lot of programming,” he says, “very proud” to have done it.

However, now he wants to release an album “with recorded percussion live, accordion and acoustic guitars, very much played en bloc”, as he did in “Si tú me quieres”.

Singer-songwriter of the group Bogotawho released his first studio album “Fonseca” (2002) at the age of 21, points out that “Si tú me quieres” means the fulfillment of the true dream of many to collaborate with the Dominican Juan Luis Guerra.

“Is cooperation which I’ve been looking for since I can remember or I’ve dreamed of it since I can remember”, he pointed out about this work, for which he says that there was a perfect harmony between the two of them artists.

The song comes on the heels of his ninth career album, “Viajante,” which garnered four Latin Grammy nominations and one Grammy nomination, along with the tour’s title “travel tour” this has already led him to perform in various countries Latin America.

US TOUR

The tour will continue from June to NOW and will guide you to act in Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 9, i Miami-Dade Arena 19 of that same month.

As for the Hispanic public in the United States, he said it’s always very interesting, because “people from many places come to the same concert and people who have not been in their countries for a long time”. These are the concerts that were felt “with a significant emotional charge”.

The tour will also take him in June to Barcelona, ​​Seville and Madrid, Spain, the country where he started playing in 2005 and where he went through a process “that begins ‘small bars‘and grow on stage”.

Fonseca believes that after a two-decade career, he is getting the recognition he already experienced in 2015 with the song “Entre mi vida y la tuya,” which landed him at No. 1 on the Billboard chart.

His success in scenarios attributes it honesty this has always characterized his work.

HONESTY IN YOUR MUSIC

“The music I’ve always made has been in an honest way, and the filter has always been that my songs move my soul and some fiber,” he says.

Looking to the future, he points out that the desired collaboration with Juan Luis Guerra meant achieving a long-desired goal, but that working with the Puerto Rican drake rose That is another of his wishes.

He also had words of praise for Spanish-language music in general, and especially for the work of its current greatest representative, the Puerto Rican Bad Bunnysince, he asserted, ” latin music is no longer a question fashion today, but has earned a place around the world.”