Dani Fernández, musical phenomenon of the year: "Success for me is being Serrat, being able to dedicate your whole life to what you like"

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Still with

jet lag

and adapting to the temperature change from 30 degrees in Costa Rica to the winter cold in Madrid.

The singer and composer

Dani Fernández

(Alcázar de San Juan, Ciudad Real, December 11, 1991) receives METRÓPOLI after celebrating his birthday in style and doing what he is most passionate about with music: traveling the world .

"I've been celebrating it by singing with a friend in the Sala Sol," he says, smiling and grateful, taking stock "with hope and a bit of modesty" of a year in which he has been proclaimed

Best Artist

at the Los40 Music Awards and

the Ondas Award for the Phenomenon Musical of the Year 2022

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Recognitions that add to the nomination in the MTV EMA as Best Spanish Artist, competing with Rosalía or Fito and the Fitipaldis, the

Dial Award,

one of the most important in Spanish-

speaking music

;

the platinum record in two

singles

from his new album,

Clima Tropical

and

Tell the Others,

or number 1 on Los 40 Principales radio.

To all this is added an unstoppable tour that has passed through the main cities in a more intimate way and at the

WiZink Center in Madrid

this coming December 29 it explodes in a large format.

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Is Costa Rica as pura vida as they say?

Has it helped you to disconnect? I will never forget it.

In my life I have traveled mostly for work.

I promised myself that I had to do more pleasure trips, because there were places that I was disgusted by not being able to visit.

Many times I go to a place in one day and come back.

For example, it has happened to me with Argentina or Mexico, that I could not see anything for work.

So I decided that all my free time would be dedicated to seeing the world.

This year I have made two very nice trips with the family, to New York and Costa Rica, and really disconnecting. But, with a guitar or without a guitar? (Laughs).

In fact, I brought one from the United States.

If you have to play and sing, I do it.

Not thinking about work and missing it.

There comes a time when you get nostalgic and you are more creative.

Will this incredible streak until April allow you to stop at Christmas? Just enough to be able to go to town to be with my family.

Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.

This year with WiZink, as it has been, it is going to be a lightning trip.

I have never had so much work on such important dates, so I am very happy.

Does performing in front of 15,000 people in a venue like WiZink give you respect? Without a doubt, imagine.

It is a personal challenge.

I have never thought that WiZink was my place.

Except after playing there with my band.

When I started making small rooms, where I feel very comfortable because a warm and intimate atmosphere is generated with the public, I never imagined that I could reach so many people.

I have a pressure because I want to turn the WiZink into a small room when streaming my music.

How have the logistics changed to adapt to such a scenario? People at home cannot imagine the work involved in such an event.

Not just money anymore, because people would hallucinate if I put a pianel [an income and expense report] in front of them, from ambulances to security, room rental, lights, technicians, the stage, the assembly... I wasn't even aware Because when I went to a room, everything was already set up and with sound, it's just putting your art and your equipment.

This is a basketball and futsal court that has to be adapted and you have to put it out of your own pocket.

My team has left their skin to have the essence of my project. And how will that coldness of a mammoth site change for human warmth? The most beautiful thing is that those around me feel the obligation to show what we are: humility, work...

We are obsessed with projecting a room of a thousand into one of 15,000.

It is my team that does not want an event to use. This 2022 his career has skyrocketed although he has been working since he was very young, as with his memorable 'I give you my voice' in Eurojunior.

Are you aware of everything that is happening to you? You are not very aware from within.

I would like to get out of myself to be able to appreciate what we have achieved, because I am not alone even if I put my name.

There are many people working.

Many times, talking with the band or with my representative, when we analyze it, our hair stands on end. There are many 'broken toys' due to early fame, at a time when the artist is not yet mature.

Is it easy to lose your head? The key to all this is the respect you have for the music and what you are really passionate about.

I am not an artist for fame and money, but because I like music.

My friends know it.

My sister, for example, is a nurse and gets up every day with a passion to exercise and does not have the fame of a singer.

Every day I think about existing, about being.

I don't put on a suit and go to the office.

There are people who have to do it to be able to feed their children even if they don't like it.

The luck I have is that I dedicate myself to my passion, and my family has seen that since I was a child.

I have struggled to dedicate myself to what I want in music, not to be known.

If you seek to be famous and have money in music, you will never be happy.

There is a certain tendency to viralize the issues through social networks.

As a consequence, they are being shortened and made very danceable.

Is he considering taking a turn or will he remain faithful to the lyrics? I am very honest with myself.

I like that a song makes me feel.

I'm not looking to be a trend.

And I'm not talking about the style, because there are songs from now that have reached me, but I am quite demanding as a consumer.

If I love Leiva, outside of the viral, when I am the one who offers the music I will not change that way of reaching people.

When I sit down to write I do it without obsessions, letting myself go and showing myself as I am. What is a day in your life like? Some people may think that the life of an artist is very crazy.

Not for me.

Since I get up in the morning I do something so artistic that I don't care if it's Sunday or Monday, because it's not a job, it's a passion.

For better or for worse, an artist is 24 hours a day.

You wake up being what you are and disconnecting is complicated.

Hence the trips to forget what I do. Do you like sports? I love it.

I am from Atleti to the death and I watch the NBA a lot.

What happens to me is that I'm pretty lazy, and if it wasn't for a good friend who takes me out of the house to train, I always have other things to do.

I don't dedicate what I should. What is your favorite restaurant? Taco shop, my city.

Their tacos are highly recommended because they keep the essence of Mexico, a country that I love and admire.

There are places, for example, Asians that don't keep that fidelity. A favorite place? It's very typical, but El Retiro.

I have never lived nearby and before I saw it as foreign, super touristy.

But I was lucky enough to meet again with this lung of Madrid and now I have gotten to know it well from the inside and I think that so many different environments make it special.

There is no park in Madrid with such diversity.

Suddenly there are people reciting poetry, people dancing, others doing martial arts... I love going there observing the different behaviors. He has visited almost all of them.

What is the best concert hall in Madrid? Oops, yesterday I was with Lucas Lera freaking out about Sala Sol, but I like Galileo, Clamores, Honky Tonk Bar, El Barco... There are millions of places.

In this city you go out on a Sunday and you always have things to do.

Yesterday, after singing for my birthday, we went to the Milky Way to play billiards until late.

The beauty of Madrid is that every day you can plan. Among so many offers,

will have those lists there I want to go.

What is your pending account? The Teatro de La Latina to see 'Los chicos del choir'.

I've seen the movie 50,000 times and I don't want to miss the musical.

I'll tell you! And in musical terms, what collaboration have you not done and would you like to propose? I couldn't choose just one artist.

I like to connect, see music in the same way.

I don't conceive of collaborations as having more numbers on Spotify.

I would like it to emerge more naturally. Is immediacy to blame for such perishable music? It's what people ask for.

What is consumed.

I make a song and upload it.

When technology grows there is more hunger for music and the novelty demands you.

As a fan, I would ask Leiva for three albums a year.

But that's impossible because she takes great care of her music.

It is not a problem of the public but of evolution.

Serrat has just retired.

Do you see your whole life in music like him? Success for me is being Serrat, being able to dedicate your whole life to what you like.

Or be a nurse like my sister because he likes it.

Or a journalist like you if that is what fills you the most.

I imagine that when these geniuses like Serrat or Sabina look back and think about everything they have been able to experience, they will consider themselves successful.

Maybe next year I won't dedicate myself to this anymore.

Life is like that. His partner Aitana said that fame is a consequence of his work, which he understood, but does it compensate? When a child says he wants to be a YouTuber, it wouldn't be a bad thing if creating content is what he likes the most.

Another story is that he wants to be to achieve fame.

That's why, if a kid told me that he wants to be a singer, I would ask him why.

To be famous, you better not dedicate yourself to this.

Getting to have money and fame is very complicated.

The education they give us, on the other hand, is that fame is wonderful and that is why it becomes the aspiration.

Tell me the good and the less good of being an artist. The best thing is that you work with incredible people, who put as much or more love than you do to a project called Dani Fernández.

The worst thing is that the more time you dedicate to music, the less you have left for your people.

The day I have children, not being able to spend as much time as I want with them will be the worst thing I'll have.

But, at the same time, I don't understand life without music.

What do you ask of 2023? Make it half as beautiful as this year.

who puts as much or more love than you to a project called Dani Fernández.