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They say that in the face of necessity, wit is sharpened. And precisely that, the lack of means, was what launched the musical career of Soge Culebra (Murcia, 1999). As a teenager, the Murcian began uploading home videos to YouTube in which he sang on camera. A series he called Dirty Mind and with which he made himself known on a platform where he now has more than 700,000 subscribers .

"I would take my sister's camera and screw it on the tripod. Then, I would put the base on my mobile and put the phone on my shoulder. I would sing the lyrics that I had written and edit it with the Windows Movie Maker ," he recalls of those video clips. The move went so well that he even toured Spain without having had a job in the market. "After all, the high point of my career was without a disc, " he says.

His torn voice and his way of combining melody and rap or reggae bases have been his hallmark since the beginning. Features that remind us of Beret, who is joined by a friendship. "There is no influence on his part or mine. When Beret came out it was like a feeling of relief. Saying, look, there is another person who understands me and is doing something similar to me," he says. However, he points out, his music now "gets out of it and innovates a little more."

Gabriel Gómez , his real name, is working on his next studio album. It will be the second after launching in late 2018 Mar de Cristal , edited with Warner Music and produced by Saunah. Although he confesses to suffering a daily struggle with his work.

"I have had many discussions with myself, many mental scratches of saying 'this is not going to like people '. But hey, I think the first thing is that an artist is happy with his art. By the time you are already worry, if you want, that people like it or not, "he says.

His passion for music began at age 7, influenced by his father and one of his uncles. He had his own studio and encouraged him to write his first letters. Today, Soge has his own home work center . Where, he says, happens every afternoon. A few more successful days. Others with less. "When I start at 5:30 pm and finish at 9:00 pm. A sketch to pass it to my manager I say 'it's a spectacular day'. Because I go to bed knowing that I've made a new song, that I have a new idea. In my opinion, it is the best thing that can happen to an artist . "

Why?

"Because I am a person who has a hard time making a song . I can shoot four days or two weeks. Because it costs me, it costs me. I am not a person who writes easily."

Are you very demanding of yourself?

" I have always been very martyred with music . I don't know, maybe I make a song and I know perfectly well that I can improve it but I can't think how. So that's when the question arises and I say, well, I don't want it "

The Murcian has no problem recognizing that he goes through "hard times" every day. " Music is a very complicated profession, especially psychologically . If you don't know how to hold it, if you don't know how to carry it, it hurts, and I am a very sensitive person."

Despite this, he acknowledges that he has not had "a critical moment" and that he is waiting for it. "I know that not everything can be positive and someday a stick will come to me." At the moment, he prefers to keep what he considers "the best" that the profession has brought him: " meet new people and know that he is going to stay there forever ."

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