NUEVA YORK— More than three decades have passed since the calls of San Juan, Ricky Martin and Carlos Vives returned to Puerto Rico with a love card to the island in which their fraternal love is evident.
“Canción bonita”, co-written by the Boricua and Colombian superastros together with Mauricio Rengifo, Andrés Torres and Rafa Arcaute, debuts on Tuesday at 19:00 in New York with a color video filmed between the Old San Juan, Piñones (Loíza) and the emblematic bar El Batey.
“We know ours from our chamas, from those who lived in Puerto Rico. We recall our San Juan calls and call them three brands for here, our many rhymes, our babies with three songs from them and good ones” , account Martin with enthusiasm in an interview via Zoom from his home in Los Angeles, with Vives connected from Santa Marta, Colombia.
For Vives, who say among themselves that “Ricky is the culprit of all this wine”, the collaboration allows him to pay homage to the world he buys for years as a telenovelas actor, giving his company a first contract of discography and giving him life dos hijos mayores.
“There’s a very small story with San Juan in our lives, in our careers, so that I’re appreciating Ricky who made this song and that I’m given the opportunity to develop like this compromise, this appreciation with the island of Peru with San Juan, that it’s a city of series “, he said.
The theme combines the sonic characteristics of the bomb and full of Puerto Rico and what Vives call “our tropical pop”.
The video, directed by Carlos Pérez (the very maker of the “Despacito” clip), was filmed in February with all the common precautions in these coronavirus times, and combines beautiful images of niches in play, tambourines, music and allegory. But these are the calls that solían be abarrotadas haste antes la pandemia estaban practically vacia.
“We are dealing with some calls that are very lively, not only at parties”, dijo Vives. “Entonces vernos ahí en esas calles como solitarias, pero que sabemos que sonu calli muy cargadas de cultura, de música, de gente, de historia – la calle San Sebastián, ahí El Batey donde salimos, todos esos lugares – es curioso estar asi, and it’s like llamar otra vez a que todo esto pase. Es como salir y poner los tambores a que los tambores llamen pa ‘que la gente se vuelva a encontrar, pa’ que la gente baile, pa ‘que San Juan dé todas sus cosas “.
Lives record that, in anticipation of the pandemic, the island was hit by large vicissitudes including the hurricane Maria and pissed off to make it a question to Martin:
“Ricky, what is Puerto Rico that does not exist? What does Puerto Rico have and its spirit in the sense that there is nothing that can be done about living allegory?”
“It’s a water bottle with the arrows and the bad guys,” Martin replied, making sure he had a car with a friend. “There is a tremor that trembles in Puerto Rico – mira, my family travels from Estocolmo, the family of my wife, there are two customers who are embarrassed! O sea, hay a magic that you have not been, is a role”.
Ya más serio, el cantante y activista agregó: “Qué te puedo decir, en Puerto Rico hemos tenido nuestras altas, hemos tenido nuestras bajas … (Pero) nos tenemos que fortalecer y que la gente entienda que nosotros tenemos unidad. so salimos and dejamos saber al mundo de qué estamos hechos y sí, somos Puerto Rico, somos latinos, tenemos esto en nuestra sangre y nosotros lo queremos llevar a todas parte del mundo “.
Vives signal that everything the world has to do when it comes to regression, and recalls what it is that sings the chorus of “Boniton bonita”: “Y si tengo que escoger, me quedo, me quedo contigo / Y si yo vuelvo a San Juan , yo muero, yo muero contigo “.
Martin, en tanto, dijo que “de la misma mannera que Carlos vuela con Puerto Rico yo vuelo con Colombia”.
“It’s a question of a fortune,” he added. “And in a moment there is a fortune as we are all living and believe that it is we who want to listen … a optimistic lad of life”.
The jewels, both present the new theme and the 6th annual premiere of the Latin American Music Awards, which will be broadcast by Telemundo and depart from 19:00 (2300 GMT).