The author of the song “Dar es dar” said in an interview with EFE from Las Vegas on the eve of the celebration of the 23rd edition of the Latin Grammy Awards.
In his view, today’s artists should review works done by Latin musicians before, because such an exercise can open new horizons about the region’s sound future. “Music did not start today or ten years ago, and it seems to me that it is one of the motives that can reveal a great future for music in the Spanish language,” he said.
The artist from Rosario openly expressed his “longing” for what he defined as the “imposing building” that was the music scene of the 20th century, thanks to exponents such as Armando Manzanero, Frank Sinatra, Quincy Jones, Luis Alberto Spinetta or Violetta Parra. . However, the Argentinean remains optimistic when thinking that “something is going to happen” in music because we are in a “revolutionary time”.
On the other hand, the musician popularly dubbed “the troubadour of Argentine rock” admitted that after more than 40 years of his career, he still retains his passion to continue studying and deepening what for him represents the final stage of the creative process: interpretation. “I want to get up every day, take a shower, brush my teeth and go to the piano to see what new things we can invent, study or learn,” the artist told EFE, adding that music is “an infinite language.” “You just have to dedicate yourself, fail more often and do all the daily research and writing work,” considered Bayes.
Reinvent the past
After receiving in 2021 the award for Musical Excellence by the Latin Recording Academy, this year Baez was one of those responsible for presenting the same award to Mexican-American guitarist Abraham Laboriel, whom he says he admires and whom he describes as a “jazz titan.” In addition, the composer is once again nominated for the Latin Grammys, whose next edition will be held on Thursday, in the categories of Best Rock Song for the song “Lo mejor de nuestras vidas” and Best Pop / Rock Album for “Los años wild”.
The celebration of this festival of Latin music is essential to Páez, who sees the Academy as an institution that “accompanies and propagates the musical processes of the Ibero-American world.” “Similarly, this means reuniting artist friends through conversations and sharing insights to see if our paths cross,” the glam rocker explained, announcing that he had just finalized a new collaboration.
“10 minutes ago I was with Rosario Flores and something happened that I hadn’t had in mind; that kind of thing happens here,” the US Grammy nominee also said of his 65th edition, which will take place on February 5. . in Los Angeles.
Baez also celebrates thanks to the 30th anniversary of one of his most successful albums, “El amor después del amor”, a material so beloved by the public that he renewed on the said anniversary. He said: “Her opposite was beautiful and an act of sheer perversity. It was unrecognizable; it’s a completely different album that keeps only the original lyrics and melody, everything else will tell you it was practically trampled,” he said.
Originally released in 1992, the album was an intimate work born of reflections on a dark time the author went through after his musical career had already been consolidated thanks to collaborations with Spanish-language rock reviewers Charly García or Luis Alberto Spinetta.
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