MEXICO CITY (AP) — For Colombian singer-songwriter Sebastián Yatra, life is stuffed with small miracles that come from dance, household and freedom.
“I saw happiness as a child as my long-term goal, one day to be happy, but I saw it as something very far away, and now I feel it in everything I do,” he mentioned in a latest interview from Mexico Metropolis.
“What motivates me the most is to share that philosophy of life and that way of seeing things, and ‘Milagro’ is my way of expressing that perspective, that change of perspective that helps me to live everything from gratitude and love,” he mentioned.
“Milagro” is his fourth album and comes three years after his earlier manufacturing, “Dharma.”
“All these albums and these songs have accompanied me in a moment of very big growth that is from 18 or 19 to 30, where you live a lot of things, and you really end up defining much more, I don’t know if who you are, but at least who you want to be,” mentioned the artist.
The identify of the album took place, partly, from a phrase in a latest e-book by his brother Andrés who’s a novelist: Life denies miracles till one realizes that every thing is a miracle. Yatra confused that altering his perspective on the world made it simpler for him to seek out increasingly miracles, from giving a hug and receiving a name from his dad and mom to having a espresso within the morning.
“So, when you see everything as a miracle, you start to be grateful for every little thing in the universe and you find its magic.”
The album consists of songs that Yatra has beforehand launched corresponding to “Vagabundo” with Manuel Turizo and Beéle, “Los domingos” and “La pelirroja,” nevertheless it additionally has surprises corresponding to a canopy of Silvio Rodríguez’s “Óleo de mujer con sombrero” that Yatra performs together with his father, Aníbal Obando Agudelo.
“I grew up listening to Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés, (Joan Manuel) Serrat, but I didn’t grow up listening to them in their voices, I grew up listening to them in my father’s voice, because I had, and still have, a great artist at home,” he mentioned. “With the guitar he did a lot of magic, and he still does, and in all the gatherings he was the one who animated any party and you were hooked listening to him.”
Yatra confessed that he even considered composing one thing within the fashion of Rodríguez and Milanés to maybe carry out it together with his father, “but it is impossible to replicate that, there is no way.”
The model of Rodríguez’s track on the album was recorded at Yatra’s household’s farm in Medellín, Colombia. It’s the final track on the album.
In “Templo de Piceas,” he’s joined by Mexican artist Humbe, and in “2AM,” he performs with the Catalan artist Unhealthy Gyal.
The Grammy-and Latin Grammy winner hopes his songs will give others the braveness to “live love the way they want to live it.”
If he may outline the sound of his album, Yatra mentioned it could be a heavenly expertise, particularly due to his monitor “Amen” (as in love one another in Spanish) through which he seeks union and common love.
“It is the lyric that I have done in my entire life, in my career, that most proposes something different and that most unites and resignifies the word amen (as in a prayer written in Spanish ‘amén’),” he mentioned.
Yatra mentioned he grew up in a Catholic household and normally goes to the Basilica when he visits Mexico. He mentioned he was excited by the latest election of Pope Leo XIV, beforehand often known as Robert Prevost, the primary American pope who spent a few years serving in Peru.
“It’s very exciting,” he mentioned. “It’s something that comes from so many generations, that you feel like the emotion of years and years of people for whom that has meant a lot.”
On the identical time, he acknowledged the legacy of Pope Francis.
“I think he was a person who united a lot and was also not afraid to take away a little of the most closed rules of the Catholic religion, but he was open to the rest of the world to also accept all people for who they are, both people who have other spiritual visions, and people who live love from another place,” he mentioned.
