This is Quevedo’s ‘Donde quiero estar’ album: the pride and dizziness of a debuting star

Artist from the Canary Islands who turned from an anonymous teenager good at rapping to a world star in a year thanks to his hit with Bizarrap (the world’s most streamed song), popularly known as ‘Quédate’. world for a few weeks), He had to reaffirm with a lengthy article that his crazy 2022 wasn’t just spontaneous.. Quevedo took on the challenge with his distinctive timbre and He rightly thought that the best thing—though certainly not the easiest—was to make an album that was flattering but also very sincere and grounded..

It was impossible to do without pride, obscenity (like the obvious ‘Punto G’), smugness and ‘frontierism’ (understand the gap) in the urban species, where they were almost a genetic condition. And rather, someone who can boast of having accomplished the unthinkable in popularity. But ‘Where I Want to Be’ is a 21-year-old’s dizzying journey through which obvious doubts, longings and irreversible decisions are revealed, as well as his response to it all.. His place is in the Canary Islands, his music is this, where he does not hide all of the above and evokes an empathetic response in the listener. “2021 add, 2022 collect, 2023 crown, 2024 perish”, he sums up “now what” and that explains everything a bit, especially “extinction”.

“Ahora qué” is the first song on the album (16 in total, four collaborations) after the “talk” of Canarian rapper Cruz Cafuné, a stage touchstone and a blessing and justification. the entire musical act Canary. In this respect Quevedo looks back, remembering what was so recent that it was impossible for him to forget: the beginnings, his colleagues, and his grateful memory of all.. Human warmth (“Yankee”), which has several dosses on the album, is quickly interrupted by an avid reggaeton. ‘Donde quiero estar’ has lots of reggaeton and surprising brushstrokes, as does the rock of ‘Luces azules’, with which it reveals its association with stormy and sudden fame. (“I think everything revolves around me; I don’t know if it’s me, the monster won’t let me sleep; they shout at me, they look at me, they hold me. What do they want from me? All I’ve wanted for a long time is to survive”). In ‘Me falta algo’, a piece featuring the Spanish National Orchestra, it goes out of its way with commendable packaging and lyrics about a break and emptiness. Separation is the theme of ‘Dame’, an accessory collaboration with Omar Montes.

The production is directed by his colleague Linton, but producer Ovy On The Drums is also featured on some pieces, such as the outstanding piece designed for perreo ‘Wanda’. Beyond many themes designed for dance and desire, the album closes with the song ‘Where I want to be’, a sincere expression that underpins the testimony and the most interesting idea of ​​the album, the idea coming out of vertigo. created by a dizzying year for all. “It’s surprising to see it ‘sold out’ after every ‘show’ is announced; but I get more depressed at the end of every ‘show’ and I’m traveling this weekend mom, I have another ‘show’ and I swear I won’t put on another show,” she sings quevedo