Ricardo Montaner returns to spite with ‘I don’t smoke’

Singer-songwriter Ricardo Montaner returned to his origins, in romantic balladthose tracks that made him famous in Spain and Latin America, with the single “Yo no fumo”, for which he hired the Mexican Carlos Rivera and is the first preview of his next studio album.

“With ‘I don’t smoke’ spite is back. That’s it a discarded songthose cortavens, those who dance on one tile,” explained the singer-songwriter born in Argentina and who has lived in Venezuela since he was 6 years old, in an interview for EFE this Tuesday.

The song was performed in a duet with Carlos Rivera, with whom he was ia cooperation pending which finally materializes. It is about an interpreter who “sings spectacularly, has a beautiful voice”, emphasized Montaner, who has sold millions of copies in his long career.

Released in April, “I Don’t Smoke” will expand “its spectrum,” as it were singer, songwriter, when the regional Mexican version of the song is coming out very soon together with Banda MS, which will mean a new penetration into these sounds since in 2016 he released “Ida y vuelta”, the album on which he performed the most emblematic of his repertoire with representatives of this genre.

‘As long as there are romantics, the ballad will not disappear’

“Yo no fumo” is the first installment of his next album of unreleased songs, which he hopes to release before the end of the year and which will include a second preview to be released in the next two months, also of a romantic nature and “where the tear will continue “.

“I’m going back to my roots, I’m going back to ballads,” admits the interpreter “So In Love” about the common denominator that will intersect with his new recording project, an “album of mean songs” that will follow “Tango,” a tribute to his Buenos Aires roots that he released last year.

“As long as there are romantics, there will be no ballads disappear“, the singer-songwriter defends the validity of this genre “so absolute and authentic”, and so rooted in Latin American idiosyncrasy that it even enjoys a kind of rebirth these days in the hands of new exponents, and “perhaps seasoned by some other influence”.

“The day the ballad disappeared was because romanticism, and I don’t think that’s possible,” said the “En la cima del cielo” singer, pointing out that “the music that most identifies with people is the music of spite.”

“We’ve all been through it,” he asserted.

“The villain who stays alone”

The singer-songwriter has just finished the first part of her tour NOW and will return to the stage in early July, this time with a route that will take him through Latin American countries, including Mexico, where he appeared last weekend to give a recital in Hermosillo.

With an extensive career behind him and numerous awards received, including a Latin Grammy for musical excellence, Montaner has developed several parallel projects, including the foundation The House Project, which promotes housing for low-income families.

In the same way, together with their children, three younger children, but also musiciansEva Luna, Mau and Rick, and their spouses, along with his wife Marlene Rodríguez, premiered the reality series “Los Montaner” on the Disney+ platform last year.

In a production that shows the intimacy of this famous clan, The family He thought “that it is possible to have a normal life and succeed in show business without abandoning your values,” as the patriarch said at the play’s premiere.

Away from the spotlight, in the coming months the composer will go to the studio to complete his new album, still untitled, but which he will record with “that villain left alone”.