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Just a few weeks ago,

became the first Spanish duo to exceed

in Spain.

The Cadiz

(1994) and

(1991) have managed to carve out their own niche in the industry after years fighting with the

.

They have achieved this by leaving behind the flamenco and melodic sounds with which they began to bet on Latin and urban rhythms.

, one of the original members of the band

, has also stayed on the road

.

In June they surprised their thousands of followers with a brief statement on social networks: "In this new stage we will be two."

"Rubén is a great artist, but in this genre he did not feel comfortable. So to impose something on him that he does not like is to lead him to perdition. We wanted his happiness, we talked to him and everything was luxurious. He is preparing his solo project and we are here to support him with all the affection always ", they explain.

Question.- Why do you stop singing romantic songs to bet on Latin sounds?

Tony

.- Music changes and people change.

We started very young, so it has been a process of finding ourselves.

We would have been unable at that time to write a song like the ones we write now, with the language we use, which seems like we are telling a colleague about it.

Now we express ourselves more freely.

We don't do things to please anyone.

It's just us.

We just be ourselves in the music and in the face of everyone no matter what they will say.

Q.- So the music of your beginnings was born thinking about what it might like?

Juan Carlos.

- Of course, keep in mind that when we signed with our management and the record company we were children.

Tony was 19 and I was 22. We were immature, so to speak, musically.

We came from a classical genre, from an age that did not correspond to us to sing that type of song and we launched a message that was very beautiful but perhaps not for the audience that we wanted.

We studied the project a lot and we realized where we wanted to make the change and we tested it.

Q.- How much has Abraham Mateo, Tony's brother, helped you to open the way?

JC-

Well, Abraham has paved the way for us on many occasions and, above all, I think he is a fundamental pillar in the entire project.

Right now he is in charge of producing all the songs for us, he also sometimes throws us a cape in the composition.

Keep in mind that it started very small, that its maturity process has been very fast.

When you ask him something he knows how to give you a totally commercial opinion on the fly.

T.-

He's my brother, I love him a lot.

We have always nurtured each other as artists and as people, but being the brother of Abraham Mateo I think is like everything in life, it has its bad part and its good part.

The good part is what I tell you, that working with him always makes everything easier because there are no differences in decisions.

But he has had his bad part in that getting to where we have come today has personally cost me because throughout that process I have had to show that I am not only 'the brother of' but that I can be self-sufficient, I can be an artist.

Nobody has given me anything, hopefully.

JC-

take away the label 'brother group' has been complicated.

For people to see that there is more than that, that we are composers.

T.-

It is much more complicated to be created with a label already, prejudged by everyone.

You have to continually demonstrate.

Q.- I have the feeling that although you have songs with millions of reproductions the public does not locate you, do you feel that they do not put a face on you?

T.-

That happens with all the artists who have not left a reality show and suddenly they see themselves in the industry from one day to the next.

They are very good songs but people don't put a face on the artist.

JC It

still happens to us, although less.

But for me perfect, so I can go to the beach, I lie on the washcloth and have my beer.

But it is true that this step is still missing for us to be known more.

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Q.- Are you afraid that the success achieved in the last year will not be maintained, that suddenly the numbers will drop again?

JC

Failure is the order of the day.

It is a career in which if you are not well emotionally you end up with a death depression in bed, I mean it.

Imagine this quarantine when they called us and told us: 'of the 50 concerts that you have, you are not going to do any'.

It's a really bad time, really.

It happens very badly and you have to be psychologically aware of everything.

Q.- How did you manage that success did not come?

The moments of trying and seeing that it is not reached.

A.-

It's a tough question because I'm going to be completely honest with you.

This is a business and a money brand.

Money has to come in here.

If you don't give money, among a lot of artists you are the last one and nobody looks at you.

This is so.

And we have spent many moments of nobody believes in you, nobody bets on you, they do not believe you because you are changing one gender.

So they are moments of hard balls.

We have been many times with the account in red and seeing the situation wrong.

T.-

My case is even more complicated because I had the example at home of an international artist, and I wanted to be too.

I worked with him but I worked from behind, people didn't know what I did, they didn't know my group, they didn't know the songs.

So I have needed more patience than normal, more than a person who wants to dedicate himself to this but does not have the example.

I have had to fight against that.

I have always had the support of my brother, we love each other to death.

There have never been envies or competitions.

But it is clear that when you have the example of something great at home, you also want your mother, your father, that everyone, to feel that pride.

I have music inside me, like him, I have it in my blood, I don't know how to do other things.

If I wasn't singing, I'd be, I don't know, in a Burger King.

Q.- And how do you manage your success, and your ego, today?

T.-

I think we have achieved great things, but coming from so low, coming from suffering, from a long

race of having a bad time, from missing moments at home, moments with family ... we have suffered so much, we know so much Well the dark part of the music, that we are never going to believe that we are succeeding as much as we are succeeding now.

It is like we are always, in quotes, condemned not to trust us.

Q.- Where would you like to see each other in the future?

T.-

I would say that a Grammy would be the best.

Have a Grammy in my living room, nice, with the pictures of the platinum in the background.

JC

- The objective, at least for me, is to have the peace of mind of knowing that we are consolidated, that they are already putting a full face on us and that we can now enjoy what we are doing.

Because, really, a lot of time is wasted in this race and you forget things that are very strong.

I, for example, this year between the quarantine and having decided to move to Madrid to fight for my dream with him, I have lost that my nephews are already five years old and they do not stop growing or that my mother has suffered cancer and has been alone at home with my father.

It has been a very hard situation in which I have lost many things because of music.

So I think I would need that, to have emotional tranquility.

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