Fonseca commemorates his 20-year career as a “Traveller” of music

20 years ago the Colombian singer Fonseca He released his first work and started a career with which he has taken the rhythms of his country to different parts of the world, a career that he celebrates today with “Viajante”, the ninth album of his career that reflects his “love for music”.

“It is a celebration of these 20 years”, says Juan Fernando Fonseca (Bogotá, 1979) in an interview with Efe, in which he adds: “I wanted to find a word that would describe my current state, my feelings, my life and that is where the word ‘Traveler’ was born”.

This concept was chosen because “The traveler, unlike the traveler, moves from one place to the other as it is and as it is”something with which he felt “fully identified”

“That desire to make music, that emotion of getting back on stage, of entering a recording studio, of recording a song it is something that I have kept intact during these 20 years and that is why the title of the album. It is an album that is, in one way or another, the result of 20 years of walking, of composing, of making music”highlights.

AN ATYPICAL PROCESS

“Viajante” had an atypical production process that was marked by the pandemic, since Fonseca began to compose songs during confinement, the long months in which the artists were away from the stage, and culminated after the end of the restrictions.

“That made the album process intense, maybe more intense than any previous process in my career. I had so much time in the studio to work, to compose, I wrote almost 30 songs, from there I ended up refining them until these 10 songs that I am presenting within ‘Viajante'”, expresses the singer of “Te mando flores” or “Estar Lejos”, among other hits.

The Colombian artist, who has won five Latin Grammy awards, assures that he listened many times to each of the 30 songs he composed in order to understand “what form I wanted to give the album, what was the rhetoric, the narrative, the discourse” that I wanted to tell in this work.

There, he says, manages to reflect what he is as a person, because every time he is “more obsessed and passionate about music, for counting” his life in each song in the most “sincere and honest” possible.

“I understood after a few years that in the end this life comes to serve (…) and in my music I land feelings, I turn them into songs and I make them available to whoever wants to make them their own, use them to dance, sing, have fun, accompany yourself in sad moments or to heal a wound”, confess.

AN ALBUM FULL OF COLLABORATIONS

For this new album, Fonseca, who has already released some singles such as “2005” or “Háblame bajito”, decided to include collaborations with artists such as Colombian Silvestre Dangond, Cali and the Dandee and Greeicy; the Cuban Cimafunk and the Mexicans Matisse.

Precisely the production, which will be published this Wednesday, aired along with the single “Pasa”, in which the singer of “Eres mi sueño” joined Matisse.

“When I wrote ‘Pasa’ together with Andrés Torres and Mauricio Rengifo, we immediately thought of them because ‘Pasa’ is a song that, although it is spite and lack of love, it has hope but at the same time it has melancholy and we saw the three of them painted in the song”he assures.

About the rest of collaborations, in which he works with artists of very different rhythms, Fonseca appreciates that this has always been his “way of making music” Well, it’s never been “limited to that (his collaborators) have to be conceptual in terms of sounds”.

“I like many styles of music and I have always liked to reflect that in my songs and when it comes to composing, this album is clearly no exception. It is more, with more reason now that I am celebrating these 20 years, the album has to be what I have been in these 20 years, which has been this variety within music and that is why this album has a number of different sound paths ”He says.

It is precisely this versatility that has led to his music is recognized in the world as Colombian, something he sees as “a giant pride”.

“It is a job that I have been doing for these 20 years, in the sense that we have been able to travel to many parts of the world to play and I have always been convinced that music is a great sample of what a country and its people are”, He concludes and warns that he will continue to show this in America and Europe on the “Viajante” tour this year and next.