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I'm a singer, songwriter from Mexico.
Let's treasure our roots, even when we're far away.
I wanted to infuse my music with Mexican character.
By collaborating, you can do very interesting things.
It's always good to receive recognition for your work.
That always happens. I start working while on vacation.
No, I don't want them to remove my scar. Scars are cool.
I go to many different places many times, but I miss my house constantly.
I think nowadays it's very important to re-connect with ourselves and our roots.
I wanted the music to sound, like, made in Mexico. I wanted to connect to my roots.
Anything that gives us pain can be transformed into this, into beautiful moments shared with friends.
Tus Ojitos' is an incredible and romantic Peruvian waltz; I tried to make it appear that the heart is singing.
I learned that life is about living and enjoying and all of that made me connect to music in whole other level.
My musical tastes were horrendous. I was just listening to whatever was on the radio. I wasn't being nourished musically at all.
Most singers begin with a band and then go solo. I started making music on my own and subsequently chose to carry on as part of a band.
There's a moment when you come to a certain point, and if you make the leap you get to the big leagues. But if you back away, you get stuck.
I don't really focus on if what I'm writing is pop or not. I just write music and then I try to figure out how to arrange the things that I write.
I wanted to make 'Mexicana Hermosa.' It's a love song, but it isn't. It's more like a song as if Mexico was the Maria, the beautiful woman that I love.
I feel I've been faithful to my convictions and my desires. I've taken small, firm steps and I try to do things as beautiful and artistically as I can.
Sometimes the music will tell you where to go. And when you find that place I believe is when you're just connecting to the feelings and the heart and the people you're with.
A record can make an artist sound in tune or make the music sound pretty. But the real test is performing live, and I think we pass fairly well, because people keep asking to see us play.
It's great to compose music just for my own enjoyment, but that I have been able to make a lot of new friends, have shows everywhere, and get to know so many places all thanks to music is impressive to me.
Los Macorinos are much older than I am so when you surround yourself with older people you realize they lived what we're living now. They live in a moment of peace because they don't have to prove anything anymore.
Every time I go to Veracruz, I feel like, OK, I am back. When my feet go to the ground on the earth, I think, 'This is me, this is home, these are my roots, and now I can go and travel again to wherever you want me to go.'
I really want to become, like, a composer for my people, my country that will photograph the things that are happening now in story and in life and love but not only, like, the love of a couple, you know, the love in general.
I would cry all of the time and I didn't know why! I was having shows and after the show I would go to the room, order a big hamburger and a vanilla shake or something like that... and cry because I was so depressed... I think it was because I was too tired.
The Macorinos and me - there's a big space between our generations. The people I was used to work with, we will do everything faster. And the Macorinos were more, like, calm. They were patient with music, and they were paying a lot of attention to the details.