Rayden announces that he is leaving music to devote himself to writing

Madrid artist Rayden announced her intention leave music “permanently”. devote himself to writing after releasing his latest album, impossible victory, conclude the tour where you will introduce her and officially say goodbye to your audience on stage. “Since I was little, I have had the feeling that in my life I am guided by the curse of a little brother who chooses everything and rejects it when he sees the mistakes of the older one. I didn’t have a vocation for music, but for writing», he stated as one of the reasons for his departure after he felt that feeling fully with his recent first novel.

As reported by Efe, David Martinez Alvarez, better known as Rayden, published the piece earlier this year Close-up of cactus woman and balloon mana review of the current love and loneliness that a priori seemed to be just another in a multi-faceted career that also includes collections of songs, which began 20 years ago as a musician, with 7 albums and more than 100 songs.

“Since 2009, I knew that I wanted to make a hexalogy album. I believe that in those 100 songs, everything interesting that the artist can tell, without repeating himself, fits there. And it was strange because I couldn’t see beyond 2021,” he says.

His participation that same year with the song crying street in the first edition of Benidorm Fest, Spain’s pre-selection for Eurovision, he helped consolidate a career that just a few months ago experienced one of its major turning points when it appeared in front of a large crowd at the Wizink Center in Madrid to celebrate two decades of its career.

“The moment I saw myself there and people said to me: ‘You made it,’ I thought that no matter how hungry I am, in music I think I’m already saying goodbye to things,” he reflects on what that moment meant, like the pandemic, which forced him to consider many vital concepts.

Just a month after releasing his eighth and final album, which he says he is very proud of, he admits the apparent paradox of his decision as he is in one of his “best creative moments” and is about to make his television debut. as a co-advisor on the program The Voice» of Atresmedia. “When I finished the record, I felt calm. I thought it was over, that I had to let go. I wanted to choose my own path, accept music from the other side and dedicate myself to the novel,” he adds in front of a career that he considers “honest” and does not want it to be “distorted”.

Launching on April 21st impossible victory He will continue the tour “for the album itself, for the audience and for the band, which was created after a break from the pandemic”. It will last a year and a half, and as he admitted, he would like it to end in his city of Alcalá de Henares (Madrid).

“I will not do what others do, who leave music and soon come back. This is the final farewell,” said Rayden, who has already started work on his second novel, which also awaits the publication of two collaborations with Álvaro de Luna and Juan Pablo Vega, and does not rule out a continuation in the anonymous part of the music industry, “like A&R or composing for others “.