Just as not a few artists from the new urban scene, JC Reyes life gave him many turns until he took a straight line lane. Now the fluctuations are softer and enjoy the sweet tracheteo of the road to success, with an army of followers that jelly at each station. At his next stop, this Saturday at the Movistar Arena in Madrid, they will receive him with confetti to celebrate the launch of ‘Born again’an album whose title refers precisely at the beginning of a new stage and in which it has had an impressive poster of international collaborations such as Ozuna, Ñengo Flow, Dei V, De la Ghetto, De la Rose or Sky breaking, among others. In his first week, he has entered the Global Spotify Top3.
Is this the most important concert of his career?
Yes, at the media and also emotional level. Singing at the Wizink is hanging another medal, brother.
Are you going to throw the house out the window with the staging?
Yes, brother. We are not here to do soaturies this time (laughs). People are waiting for a great concert for my part, and I am prepared to give what everyone wants.
At times like this is when you remember how everything started, right?
Yes … the first time I made a song was thanks to a colleague from the neighborhood, who knew a Payo who had a studio, and invited me to go to record something. I until that moment the only thing I did was Rap Freestyle on the street. The song did not go out with any record records or anything, but it worked very well. We go out there crazy, with a cover that if you see it you die of laughter. The result he had surprised me a lot.
And there he said “this is mine.”
It was not exactly not so. I kept making music because I liked it, and little by little it was seen clear that I could dedicate myself to it.
And at what time did you realize that?
When they gave me the first money for ’34 Love and Mafia ‘, the first topic I did after signing a distribution contract. With that I could fix a few things.
Does it refer to paying debts?
No, to meet goals.
With the avalanche of urban artists there is, what do you think JC Reyes has that differentiates him from others?
To God, brother.
Something else will be …
Well, if you consider having God not enough to achieve everything, that is your perspective. I am telling you what the key has been. It is God, brother. I have not studied music or anything, I took my graduate like everyone else, and then I started with music and thank God I did well, without any preparation, without studies and without anyone who advises me or anyone who guided me. Working hard is how we have reached where we have reached, which right now is the top positions of the lists in Spain.
I think that one of the things that you like most about you, is that it shows that you have lived the things you sing.
I agree that it can be one of the keys to my success. There are other artists who are noticed that they have nothing to tell. The public likes morbidity, and since I have had a little complicated life, it shows that I have a heart, that I have stories to tell.
In fact, his first gold album received him in jail after being arrested for a robbery.
Yes, yes.
How was the time you found out?
The guards told me and I didn’t believe it, I was convinced that they were laughing at me. But then they told me that they had seen him on TV, and I already started to think it was true.
It is a total movie scene. Have you not offered to make one?
Yes, a couple of times. But right now a state focused on other things, music and my family (he has four children), and I don’t like to talk ahead of time. I still have many things to do before telling my life.
Well thought out. It does not really have been making music for four years!
Clear. What happens is that people are suddenly thought that I have to explain everything that has happened to me in life. And that one does when he considers that it is time, not when they ask for it. Right now my goal is to leave a mark on music. I need to take more giant steps to have more things to talk about.
“I am superstitious and I do not like to get records, because they always bring something bad”
After passing through jail, it is said that the artists of the scene did not want to collaborate with you. That has already been left behind, right?
The truth is that yes, it has already passed. As with many other things, but I don’t really know if I should talk about it, brother. People bring me careless, I still record, recording, recording, and I have achieved what I wanted. I like to be in number one, but it is not the most necessary. With having my house, feeding my family, my children and the people I want, it is enough.
I have read that it is very superstitious, and that every time it takes out an album or a song, something bad happens. Everything in order for now?
It is true that I am superstitious. On the one hand I don’t like to get albums, they always bring problems.
How?
I don’t know … I don’t want to talk about that.
I have also read that now, when composing, he has more present the fact that what he publishes is going to listen to many young people, he cares about launching more constructive, more positive message.
Or more make -up. I am no longer so direct, I no longer have that aggressiveness in my body. That happened when I was more teenager, and partly is normal. Now I am twenty -seven years old, I have matured, I am waiting for my fifth child and it is not a plan to continue on that path.
It was also a mistake to publish that photo of Rosalía naked manipulated with artificial intelligence. Why did he?
Because it was too spontaneous. I saw that photo somewhere and shared it without thinking, without any evil. I apologized to the Chavala, and in every interview I do I ask for forgiveness again. I think it is time to turn the page. What happens is that I was treated in a different way, they told me some barbarities … I understand that it was very bad, because at that time the Chavala had a relationship, and was subjected to a media pressure and also to a pressure at home.
The Andalusian urban scene, which usually has flamenco pinch, pastes stronger. Do you think that musical tradition has given them tools that others do not have?
Let’s see, I’m going to explain it to you: being a gypsy and Andalusia has given me everything I need to make music. I learned what a tone was listening to sing and touch, listening to my family to sing … what happens is that I had my personal tastes. But always with flamenco as a base.
Who are your music gods, your great referents?
No, brother. I do not call people to people.
Not even Camarón?
A shrimp yes, very much (laughs). I am a shrimp fan to die. There is no gypsy who does not like Camarón, just thinking about it is almost lack of respect, brother. But he didn’t like himself to treat him like a God.
Are there racism with gypsies in the record industry?
Lot. The industry, the artists, those who release the pasta … Everyone continues to believe that the gypsies are mounted in a donkey. If I buy a Lamborghini, it doesn’t seem like a donkey, right? Many times they have thought that I am silly for being a gypsy. And in reality, one of the reasons why I do not collaborate with many artists, is that. People are still very racist.
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