“But I want to be as connected as possible with my creativity…I want to be as honest and transparent with my creativity – and with who I am. I really don't make an effort of like, ‘Oh, I want to change, I want to reinvent myself,’” Echeverry explains. “I try to look backwards in order to celebrate the journey and how long the journey has been. Echeverry is certainly building himself a fortified pop stronghold, which is currently capped off with De Adentro Pa Afuera, an album centrally inspired by his wife and the 2022 birth of his daughter, and visually backdropped by an impassioned red with Echeverry in portraiture with a blooming rose. Since his 2019 success with “Tutu” – a collaboration with fellow Colombian Shakira, and Puerto Rican singer Pedro Capo – each foot forward has been one soundtracked by quirky pop that blends ear worm with Latin passion. With another Spanish tour in the pipeline for 2024, the road from hopeful stars-in-his-eyes talent show contestant to bonafide pop star has been long but the dividends appear to be paying off for Echeverry. So being here announcing my next tour, receiving all those nominations, releasing new music here in Spain, is something very important.” “The first time I was on stage, with my name, with people in front of me, was in Spain. “Spain was the first country that I visited on my first a tour,” he remembers. Taking his second album Mis Manos around the globe – and a bunch of cameras for what would become his Grammy-nom’d documentary – it was actually here in Spain that he wound up having an incredible affinity. Halted in his tracks by the pandemic, it wouldn’t be until 2021 that he would finally get his first-ever worldwide tour. Eventually signing with Sony Music Latin in 2019, he wound up releasing his debut album – Por Primera Vez – in 2020. Going through the various classic talent-show-start churns, including TV show acting appearances mixtapes singles, he then undertook a behind-the-scenes stint in Miami writing songs for other contemporary Latin acts including Becky G and Natti Natasha (“Sin Pijama”), Anitta (“Veneno”), and Sebastian Yatra (“Ya No Tiene Novio”). His first major musical experience came when he and his sister auditioned for XS Factor – though it would be the year after in 2007 when he would go onto win as a solo act, and his story begins proper. For someone with near-megastar status, the vibe still sits as one of a dreamer who somehow achieved something great.īorn in Medellín, Antioquia, his early years were dominated by the classic sounds of Pink Floyd and The Beatles, as well as Latin powerhouses such as Shakira. Throughout the week Camilo Echeverry – the six-time winner already – posts reels of he and his sometimes musical collaborator wife Evaluna Montaner out ambling around Seville’s ancient streets with coffee. I mean, this, everything that I'm living right now is way bigger than everything that I've dreamt in my life, to be honest.” But I'm already complete, long ago, to be honest. “I love the the craft of trying to complete circles,” he says. Going onto win only Best Long Form Music Video, while a snub for last years third album De Adentro Pa Afuera, which he notes as being “super special and super personal,” may sting, it’s his singular win which holds a special place in his heart: “It's very important for me, and it's super special, because that tour really impacted me and changed me.”ĭocumenting his first headline tour in 2021, El Primer Tour De Mi Vida is a full-circle moment isn’t lost on Echeverry. I'm just gonna allow myself to feel everything that is going to happen this week,” he tells me the day before the 2023 Latin Grammy’s ceremony. But far from a clout-chasing face, Camilo Echeverry is uniquely authentic.Įven as he settles into a ceremony that finds him nominated for seven awards, he’s intensely aware of – and embracing – all facets of what this moment, and all the smaller ones that lead up to this week in November, mean: “I'm just allowing myself to feel everything, like, I'm gonna get nervous, I'm gonna be okay with being nervous, I'm gonna want to win the awards. This also explains his near-30 million Instagram followers and hundreds of millions of streams. Even as he and his entourage make their way through the hotel multiple other acts and influencers are using as a base in Seville for Latin Grammy week, everything changes. Even though he's softly spoken and of average height, the handlebar-moustachioed, pink glasses-wearing Colombian singer has an aura that commands a room.
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