His foray into music was by chance, but that chance has led Manuel Medrano (Cartagena de Indias, 1987) to record an album, win two Latin Grammys and visit with his music two continents … all in less than two years. “I really wanted everything and worked for everything, but I did not expect it to come like this, all at the same time,” confesses the singer-songwriter. After harvesting hits in America, Medrano ends two “wonderful” years with the promotion in Spain of his self-titled album and a single in which he sings with the malagueña Vanesa Martín.
Contrary to the rhythms that have come out of Colombia in recent years – as reggaetón -, the Colombian is the ballads of love, although not limited to a single genre. He says he likes and listens to all kinds of music, so he has invented a label for his songs: “pop cast”. “All music is important, and I think Latin has always been a music for everyone: salsa, ballads, pop, bolero. That’s pop-up after all, a music for all. ”
The young man with a hoarse voice and 1.90 meters of height is presented before everything as singer-songwriter. The music came to him as a gift. Despite being a child inclined to school and friends, at age 14 he received a guitar that changed his life. “I always had a tremendous fascination for songwriters,” says the admirer of soloists like Robi Draco Rosa, Fito Páez, Gustavo Cerati, Chico Buarque, Juan Gabriel and Leonardo Favio. And it was just the composing action that hooked him to the musical world: “When I started writing songs I connected very hard with the story and decided that I was not going to do anything other than write songs and live on it.”
The cartagenero is one of those cases of success arisen from social networks. From composing songs in his room (his solo Bajo el agua, five years ago), publishing songs independently, singing in bars in Bogotá and hanging his videos on YouTube, Warner Music focused his attention on him. At the end of 2015 he launched with the label his homonymous album, which led him to win last November two Latin Grammys in the categories of Best New Artist and Best Songwriting Album. “Launching my first album was one of my biggest dreams, bringing my music to other countries was another of my biggest dreams. Winning two Latin Grammys in two such important categories is another dream come true. Cross the ocean with my music. Ah! There are many things! “, He says, somewhat overwhelmed.
Still trying to get used to the attention of the press. “It’s difficult,” he says when the photographer asks him to pose in a certain way, but once you hear the click of the camera it seems he does it naturally. And it imitates accents as it speaks of the countries in which it has been on tour. “I adapt easily,” he says.
Accomplice by Vanesa Martín
Manuel Medrano acknowledges that it took effort and a lot of patience to arrive in Spain to present his music, but he also thanks the Malaga singer Vanesa Martín for inviting him to sing with her in Complicidad, a song from his album Munay. The subject, which is their first collaboration, was recorded from Colombia. He reveals that he did not know Martin in person when he did it. “I really like his voice and I think people liked it a lot because they did not expect it. A collaboration with a Colombian who had no idea, with an extremely rare voice. ”
And although most of his songs are ballads that speak of love, in his pop cast takes all the genres he likes, as a critic “to the war of sorts,” so reggaeton is not forbidden for him: If at any time I can do a reggaeton, I do. ”
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