Cristina Luis Madrid
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Not even Pablo Rouss
(Pamplona, 1994)
himself can explain very well how a Navarrese boy who started playing in punk rock bands has ended up winning two Latin Grammys and being part of the jury for Operación Triunfo 2023.
"That's what has been emerging," he says, laughing. "I think the most beautiful thing about music is not premeditating anything. And it's one of the problems I may have right now. I suffer more anxiety and stress because I have more expectations," she adds.
He arrives for the interview directly from Barcelona after his weekly trip to record the musical talent show galas. Without resting, he will spend several days in Madrid promoting
'
Asymptomatic
', her second studio album. An intimate pop album dedicated to her mother who died
two and a half years ago.
"I haven't addressed it for a long time. I have always been a very positive person because she always has been, and for me the way to cope with something was to downplay its importance. But it is a double-edged sword.
Problems should not be downplayed." but to give them what they have. And this one had a lot
," he says. "I didn't know I had all that stored inside, but every song I wrote meant I spent a whole day crying," she explains.
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The work, made up of ten songs, seeks to settle accounts with all those feelings that he did not understand and decided to put aside. With what she didn't do and then he blamed himself when her work world was at its best while she suffered such an important loss.
"He caught me working like an animal from Monday to Sunday 14 hours a day after coming from the time of Covid and so on when I had not been able to go see my mother for three years. So it
has been a way of healing me. Take away the blame and understand that life is like that and you don't have to think about it
. It's worthless to think about it if it can't be reversed," he says.
He is aware that "perhaps it is not the most
mainstream album"
he could release. Especially at a time where she has a showcase by being part of a contest with such a loyal audience. But he is sure that the people who connect with his work "will do so in a very profound way because the death of a loved one is a taboo subject that we often do not know how to express."
His path to get here could be that of any artist. He started as a child playing by ear a guitar that they had at home and that his father always brought out at gatherings with friends. Later, he became interested in melodies and exploring sounds in a self-taught way until he started a band with several colleagues. "Pop-rock and American emo style," he notes.
"
It's no longer fashionable to form a band and tour Spain with your 1,200-euro V40
and blow it up by driving miles to play in front of 20 people in Alicante. But I was very happy with that," he smiles, remembering that time.
The turning point would come precisely during one of those shows when he was 19 years old. "At a concert
they threw a firecracker that exploded when it hit the guitar and started burning. I had a third-degree burn on my hand and I spent two years recovering
. It was during that break when I realized that I didn't want to continue with this. as a hobby while I studied Graphic Design. I needed to focus on music. So I left my degree and set up a studio with Garci, my partner at the time, who was the guitarist of a well-known metal band in Pamplona," he says.
He is honest when he confesses that choosing production instead of launching his career as a vocalist was a choice motivated by a lack of success. "We are not going to fool ourselves,
when you are in the
underground
and you have been breaking stones for many years there comes a time when you get tired
. You want to become professional but it is difficult for you and you start to lose the desire," she says.
Later he would get the opportunity to move to Madrid to work alongside Alex Cappa, owner of Metropol Studios,
with metal and rock artists
. "After three years working on a thousand projects of that type I saw that there was a limit and moving to pop was exactly the same. I have always been concerned about connecting with artists and not the
egoism
of 'look: I have this, that, and that. You want it?'".
During his time as a producer he has worked with
Lola Índigo
, Walls, Belén Aguilera and
David Bisbal
, achieving 11 gold and 14 platinum records. But the big moment came with the two Latin Grammys for
Tacones Rojos
, his work with the Colombian
Sebastián Yatra
. A song that he came to on the rebound.
"
I had been with Sebas and Lola about two or three weeks before in a studio session
where a song came out that we were
on fire
with but that in the end didn't work out. One day I was rehearsing with Recycled J, I saw Sebas pass by and So I wrote to him to say hello. We were talking and he told me that he was working on a song with Mauricio de Andrés and he asked me if I wanted to join. I never carry a computer and I had it just that day. So I signed up," he says.
"That's why
I always say that the power of people is much more important than the power of talent
. I would never have been in that session if I hadn't had a good time with Sebas and the rest of the team before," he says.
In any case, he ensures that he continually fights against expectations of ambition and success.
"I find it very difficult to live in the present assimilating all the things that have happened to me in such a short time
," she says. "That's why the only goal I have in life is to be happy and continue having the same dream. It's the most complicated goal, but the only one I keep in mind," she concludes.