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This Monday, Antena3 kicked off the 17th season of
El Hormiguero.
A new stage full of surprises, according to what Pablo Motos himself has commented, and this Thursday will have Quevedo (20) as a star guest.
The new promise of urban music, who -together with the Argentine producer Bizarrap-
has managed to become the most listened to singer in the world with
Quédate
.
A song originally called Bzrp Music Sessions Vol. 52, which has almost 408 million views on Spotify, 250 million on YouTube and countless tons of controversy.
The reason?
The viralization of various live videos, in which it is shown that
Quevedo is far from being a "tuned" singer or an artist with extensive vocal mastery.
Moreover, according to a text published by critic Fernando Neira in
El País
, Quevedo is nothing more than "the canonization of nothingness."
"There is not a single nanogram of personality, of its own language, in music. And let's not say in the voice, ultra-processed and cacophonous
, which is Quevedo's but could be yours, literally," the expert wrote, after listening the canary sing without autotune.
Who is Quevedo?
Despite this,
Pedro Luis Domínguez Quevedo (the singer's real name) was hit by criticism
.
In fact, the young man decided to respond to Neira with a curious image -that of a man's ass-, implying that he does not care what they say.
Although it is not that Quevedo is petulant.
On the contrary.
As he has shown in the very few interviews that he has given since his fame exploded,
the rapper, who has a million and a half followers on Instagram, is still a grounded boy
, who is still surprised by everything that is happening to him. going.
"I have had many scratches, seeing that life has changed me completely.
I think that what you have to do to be calm is to focus on the day to day, which -in my case- has not changed. I get up in my house ,
I go to the park, I smoke a cigarette, like with my father, I go to a friend's house
, I go to the studio and I come back home. I keep seeing the same people all the time. Maybe, if I go somewhere that
has a lot of people, they stop me for a photo, but nothing that you say you can't live with it,
" he recently told EL MUNDO about his life in Gran Canaria, where he has spent much of his two decades.
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Pedro Domínguez was born in December 2001, in Madrid
.
But a few months later he moved to Brazil, along with his family, where he got to know Latin rhythms thoroughly.
Finally, four years later, Quevedo and his family decided to return to Spain, to
Las Palmas
, but the musical diversity stayed with him forever and
in his adolescence he began to develop
freestyle rap
.
And when did he start his professional career?
During the pandemic, when he had time to think about his future and put his priorities in order.
"It was one of the worst times of my life, but also because I was 18 years old.
It is a period of many changes, that you do not know what to do with your life. I was off center and involved in moves, in other things. It affected me a lot, but it also served me well:
if it weren't for the pandemic, I wouldn't be here, nor would I have made music, I'm sure. I came out of the
pandemic
so eager to change my life, that's when I got serious.
, for example, it inspired me that you freak out," he
told this newspaper in April, after his single Now and Always, from 2021, reached -unexpectedly- number 19 of the most viral songs on Spotify.
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Months later, Quevedo once again surprised with
Night fell
,
Answer Zero, Non Stop
and
If they want to front
(along with Duki and De La Ghetto), which would have caught the attention of Ed Sheeran.
The famous British singer-songwriter, who called rapper collaborating on his 2step song..
.
And, during that same time, Bizarrap - who had become known for his Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 36 with Nathy Peluso - contacted him.
"He told me through Instagram that he liked what he was doing and
that he hoped we could make music together.
The timing was perfect, because I was really in Argentina,
" Quevedo explained to Billboard in August.
According to Quevedo,
the day he and Bizarrap got together to collaborate was an absolutely "normal" day,
so they never imagined that the song would cause such a furor.
"
There was nothing out of the ordinary. What is not normal is what happened
to the song after it was released," said the rapper, a few weeks ago, while enjoying the summer in the Canary Islands... Along with the his girlfriend.
A mysterious girl whom he taught last August 26 on the networks.
Despite this, the young woman has not yet been identified... And Quevedo has avoided saying her name.
Could it be that he is protecting her from fame?
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