Camilo interview: "I am sent by God to make music
"I would love to say that I am a normal person living normal things, but it is a lie: my life is a movie life."
Camilo Echeverry Correa (Medellín, 1994) grew up with a guitar under his arm in the Colombia of a thousand colors.
His calm pop has united generations and surpassed the
best figures
.
He is now back with his third album and a daughter who will accompany him on his second tour.
Although he does not want to define himself, Camilo confesses that he does not want to share all the frustrations that he lives and dreams of;
That is why he starts from positivism, balancing each word in a life, he says, like a movie.
What will the September album be like?
What has been the important thing? The most important thing for me has been to parade from the inside out the most sacred things, and the feelings;
real themes that were dwelling in me.
There is a phrase that says that trees do not bear fruit for themselves, nor do rivers flow for themselves.
The most sacred always comes from the inside out, so in my job of making songs I have the privilege of immortalizing it. Many people say that your music is romantic and sentimental.
How would you define it for someone who is deaf and cannot hear?
Uh... It's very complicated for me because I suffer with the possibility of having to define myself.
And because the effort I always make is to try to break down those barriers that define me in order to continue looking for sides of my identity that I have not visited before.
The essence of my songs is, although it is lame if you remove the sonority, for a person who cannot hear them, in the lyrics.
There is a large part of that identity that my songs speak of.
I would describe my music as honest music, as real songs from a person who stopped to look at the things that were around him all the time. How would you describe Camilo who creates music?
He would return to the word honesty, to sensitivity, to the minuscule.
I love having a telescope but I also love having a magnifying glass.
Look big and small.
And Camilo Echeverry Correa?
It's hard for me to describe myself.
Above all because when one describes himself in a certain way he is putting limits on himself so as not to mutate and change it,
because the tendency is to respect those limits that one sets when describing oneself, so I prefer not to do it. On the 12th the tour begins in Pamplona.
What do you find in Spain that you cannot find in other places?
Spain gave me the novelty of meeting the other side of the songs for the first time in my life.
The first tour started last year here.
I owe this country the contact and encounter with the public.
One writes swearing that the songs are for one but in reality they only make sense when they are part of someone else's life.
Spain gave me that scoop.
How do you manage success?
Enjoying it.
On every step.
I would love to say that I am a normal person living normal things, but it is a lie: my life is a movie life.
I have the opportunity to write wonderful songs, to travel with my family,
of being stopped in the street and saying nice things to me, of looking people in the eye when they sing my songs and feeling that they identify with them.
That's a fantastic life and more things like that happen every day.
The recognitions and the Grammys add a lot to the accumulation of blessings but my life is a dream.
We know that your connection with people starts from the positivism that you transmit in everything you do and also in how you show it on social networks.
What don't you like about yourself that you don't share? There are a lot of things.
The things that make a human being truly valuable rarely appear on social media.
Within all of them are the things that you do not love or that embarrass you and that do not make you want to share so much.
The frustrations before a song becomes a song, that is never shared on the networks.
One's bad mood, in terms of missing out on things in one's personal life at times, that frustration doesn't fit in social networks either.
It is also a question that I feel very proud of that other side that I do not share.
It doesn't make me feel ashamed to have that other side at all.
No. What has changed since that first time you introduced yourself to the X Factor until now? Everything has changed.
The love with which I approached the guitar, that suddenly hasn't changed that much, it's still the same, like a little boy.
But life has changed.
I have a family now that it grows, I'm a dad, I'm about to release my third album, I'm about to experience my second tour.
And to think that it was like this with 90,000 tickets that we sold in total and now knowing that with this tour we are about to reach 200,000...
Those kinds of things seem like they were commercial triumphs but they are things that put the evolution of things in perspective.
You feel proud beyond how fantastic the commercial logo is.
Above all, it gives me perspective to think about the evolution of things and how long the road has been and how much I am enjoying it now.
Yes, everything has changed a lot.
From Medellin to the world.
How did your childhood influence your style of making music? My entire childhood in Colombia, in Medellín, in Monterrey, in Bogotá, filled me with colors.
It is impossible for one to write songs that are not constantly photographing impressions that come with you from your childhood.
I am very grateful to God for being born in Colombia, a country full of diversity and identity.
I feel very proud that
every time I pick up the guitar to write songs, I throw myself to such diverse places and that is precisely because of the place where I was born.
Any challenge ahead?
: The first and biggest challenge is that I am now a father.
So I am already leaving a clear mark on this new generation that is born with Indigo.
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