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David Rees (1994) has managed to make his rarity a virtue. When fashion involves releasing video clips surrounded by girls, he is accompanied by Disney characters. When Latin sounds reign, he defends his ukulele. When you have to show self-love, you bring out your most sensitive and innocent side. "I do not have different patterns because I want to be different from the rest but because I am like that and I think it is what will really take you to places," says the Extremaduran artist with British origins.

After making a name on YouTube for five years, Rees has just released his debut album , Amarillo , with the multinational Warner Music . A job that in its first week of launch has achieved number one in sales . Something that only confirms her desire to wait for the ideal moment to get her own job despite having, for a long time, had hundreds of thousands of followers.

"I wanted to see that my music reached people, that it meant something to them. Because you can have a lot of followers on networks but that they are only there to see things in your life , not your art. Obviously the dream of always releasing an album It has been there but for me there was no point in releasing an album without an audience behind it and having to defend it. I don't like doing things that end in nothing, that are later forgotten. "

In addition to the ukulele, play the harp, transverse flute, or piano. Music has always been present in his life but he has not been so clear about dedicating himself to it professionally. So he left her somewhat apart to study psychology . Until a contest changed everything .

"With more than half the race done, there was a turning point. I won a Maldita Nerea group contest and I said, jolín, if I have won this I can do more things. For me it has been the most important day of my life because he changed my chip, "he recalls.

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At that time, David Rees bet on making himself known on YouTube. "There were a lot of people from the United States uploading their covers and I said, why don't I do the same? I started making songs by other artists and gradually mixing them up to upload my own," he says.

And the successes came: the first 100,000 reproductions, a worldwide viral video with Bely Basarte, the concerts ... And even a proposal to launch his own work that he rejected when considering that the conditions they offered him sought to change his art, modify who was. " Turning down the record deal was tough because they put your dream ahead of you but you didn't get it because you felt like you shouldn't. Although I never thought about throwing in the towel."

"Having shown so much sincerity makes it easier to be wrong"

He called his first song, written and published during a depression , Transparent , one of the adjectives that best describe him. "I made it as a relief and it was not difficult for me to share it. For me it has always been a very positive thing to share my dramas and my joys with the world."

Far from seeing it as a weak point, David defends that clarity that is often lacking in public figures. "I think that it is also super positive to have told my life, rather than sell it . I feel that it is very important to know an artist to believe it. And I think that having shown so much sincerity makes it easier to be wrong and you are not judged for There are many cases of artists that you see as perfect people and you forget that they are human like you and me. "

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