The singer Raphael has assured that reggaeton is music for “the moment of fun”but that “does not reach” the people who listen to it, which is why artists who work with this genre “disappear just as they appear.”
“A few years ago I was asked about reggaeton, I said to give it some time. When new music comes out it’s always horrible. We’ve already given it a lot of time, and no. That’s why a singer, woman or man, he sings, he has a very big success and the following year you no longer hear him or that reggaeton. They disappear just as they appear because they don’t reach people. They come to him at the moment of having fun and to move around, once the drunkenness and fun have passed, they forget,” the singer said in an interview.
The artist signs Yesterday… Stillhis eighty-sixth album and which he recorded in Paris, in which honors the chanson French and its greatest exponents: Édith Piaf, Gilbert Bécaud, Charles Aznavour or Jacques Brel. Precisely, this new work is opened by a Spanish version that the Jaén native makes La vie en rose of Piaf, although for him, the current world is not that “pink color” that he talks about in that song.
“You have to live. The planet is falling apart, but we have to fix it. We have to get it into our heads that we are doing so much damage to the planet that it is already giving back to us. That’s what happened in Valencia, in Ibiza the water is hot, not cold, it’s hot. We have done that,” he criticized.
In that sense, despite his crude vision of the current situation, he has assured that there is still “time” for the trends regarding climate change to be “reversed.” “I think we still have time for people who know how to do these things to reverse the trend and let’s not spoil the base of the planet again. What no longer has a remedy, has no remedy, but we must not continue down the same path,” he added.
“I still have to do everything”
Despite his long journey, Raphael He has acknowledged that he has “everything left to do” and that what “is needed” is to find topics that interest you, because if you don’t like what you do, “no.” “I still have to do everything. But what is always needed is to find topics that interest you, that you like, that you enjoy. To be able to make people enjoy it. If you don’t like it, you are going to badly sell to the people, to sell in the sense of teaching. I have to really like what I’m doing to be able to transmit it, if not, no,” he stated.
That is why he has decided to do a tribute work to the French song, because it has been a “base” music for him since he was 12 years old and had stopped singing in choirs. “As an ordinary Spaniard, it was the music I listened to.”has specified.
“France has not lost it, French composers still have it. But it is not something that is fashionable worldwide. There was a time when it was French music, what was heard in the world, now it is American music . But the French will always have it in its place. The Spanish too, but we are more ductile and we can do all those styles, we can do it perfectly,” he assured. Regarding the possibility of an artist making a tribute to the “Raphael song”, the singer cheerfully responds that “for sure.” that there are some who do it and would not mind “if they know how” to do it.
As is tradition for the artist, he will close 2024 with four concerts in Seville and two in Madridat the WiZink Center, where he has been doing it for 15 years straight and where he will perform some of his Christmas carols such as The Drummer’s Song.
“Mariah only does that. She has retired from public life, she only does Christmas. Mine is autumn, winter, spring and summerI am there all year round. Music should have its seasons too and at Christmas you need to live Christmas music. Although if you go dancing later, reggaeton will fit,” he joked.
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