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Last Thursday, after spending an intense week with covid, the Colombian singer
Camilo
(28) -along with his daughter Indigo and his wife Evaluna (24)- landed in Madrid to present
his new tour.
This is
From Inside to Outside,
a tour that will take you through 18 cities in Spain.
Among them, Madrid, Zaragoza, La Coruña, Bilbao and Barcelona.
"On this tour I will present my new album that talks about
how we accompanied Indigo
'from the inside to the outside' and how many new feelings were born. When you become a father,
insecurities appear
that you didn't know you had and waiting for Indigo I saw these appear new sensations. Did you see that they say that children come with a loaf of bread under their arm? It happened to me that
with Índigo inspiration came",
commented Camilo on his second day in Spain. A place that, as he himself indicates, is "his second home".
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"I have
had a connection with Spain
since I was little. Spanish music has been part of who I am and before I arrived here with my music, I already felt that I had arrived with my heart. It sounds cliché, but that's how it is. And when I started to sound in Spain, you guys
gave me a very generous welcome.
In fact, my first tour started in Spain, the first time I performed in front of an audience was in Spain and that makes me very happy. It also fascinates me that
people approach me with familiarity.
Like someone seeing a cousin they've been waiting for a long time. Yesterday we parked down here with Evaluna, we stayed for two seconds and people began to arrive, approaching naturally. I'm delighted to see that
entire families follow us
.
Adults, youth, children in arms.
The truth is that it was a beautiful surprise," she said.
However, this immense popularity is not the only surprise that Spain has given Camilo, but also
the seed
of its most precious treasure.
"Indigo was conceived on a date on my last tour, in Cádiz,"
the interpreter told LOC, later explaining why he believes that Andalusia made her daughter so special.
"Let's see, I promised myself that I was going to be an objective father, because before it bothered me when someone said 'my son is a genius!', for anything. But it seems that I am already being that type of father, because I do
believe that Indigo has a sensitivity to music...
It's that she lived the entire tour. She was called into existence in Spain and, as a result of that, she grew up
listening to songs
. Above all,
Indigo
- who is the one that Evaluna jumped with the most... And when Indigo listens,
Indigo
is very peculiar.
Also, he's done a couple of yells that are
suspiciously pitched...
Ah, I'd love for him to be a singer! he said.
Even so, Camilo is 100% aware that there is still a long way to go before his daughter - barely two months old - becomes an artist.
However, he is determined
that she listen to her lyrics since she was little
and that she even get used to the
itinerant life
of musicians.
"For me, being here with Evaluna and Indigo is a privilege. We are already dreaming of the entire distribution of the tour and our greatest ambition is
to enjoy every step of the way with the baby
in the arms... But let's see first how jetlag hits him.
The first day nothing happened, but we will have to wait for the second.
It is that she has an hour in which she gives to exercise the vocal respiratory apparatus and it is at eight at night in Colombia... And I am afraid that it is two in the morning here!
But actually, I'm confident.
I think
everything will be fine and it will be pure enjoyment,"
she said.
On the other hand, Camilo also wanted to refer to his next artistic project that opens on June 16:
NASA
,
his collaboration with Alejandro Sanz.
"Until last year I had no relationship with Sanz. But when I was at
El hormiguero
, in 2021,
Pablo Motos lent me a guitar
that Alejandro had designed with his luthier and then he went to my concert with his family and gave me one. We started talking,
there was chemistry and the idea
of doing something together was born... And you saw that, sometimes, many artists when they meet, say 'let's do something!'
and it never happens... And I said ‘please, let it be true.’ And a week later we were already talking and
NASA was born
, of which I am very proud.
It's one of the most beautiful songs I've ever written! ", He pointed out. Despite this, Camilo still does not know what makes
NASA
or his other compositions so attractive.
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"I would love to know what makes people
want to listen to my songs.
But I assume it has to do with the
diversity of the message
or the universality of the sound and the themes. To me, my job seems interesting because it
is a reflection of what I am
, of the things that I am feeling or living. To that extent, I find it fun and if it weren't, I wouldn't enjoy it so much. And neither would people...
The face of the public at concerts
is the mirror of what that you are giving them. And if everything were
fake
, people give it back to you with a smile that is also fake. But, thank God, I have had the opportunity to
build a life around honesty.
It amuses me to write about the everyday and elevate the mundane.
There is so much material to cut from reality, that I don't need to invent another more interesting universe.
My music is part of me,"
she concluded.
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