Madrid artist Rayden announced to EFE this Thursday When he releases his last album, he “definitely” intends to quit music to devote himself to writing.Complete a tour to present ‘The Impossible Victory’ and officially bid your audience farewell on stage.
“Ever since I was little I’ve felt like I guided myself in life under the curse of the younger brotherthe one who chooses everything, seeing the faults of the greatest, throwing them aside. I didn’t have a profession related to music, but I had a profession related to writing” and claimed that it was one of the reasons for leaving after experiencing this feeling with her last novel.
David Martínez Álvarez, better known as Rayden, was published earlier this year ‘The Cactus Woman and the Balloon Man’s Approach’It is a reflection of current love and loneliness that seems to be an a priori notch in a versatile career that started 20 years ago as a musician, with 7 albums and over 100 songs, including poetry collections.
“I knew I wanted to do a hexalogy of albums since 2009. anything interesting that a person can tell artist it fits there without repetition, in that 100 songs. And it was strange because I couldn’t see beyond 2021,” he says.
His participation with the song in the same year ‘Crying Street’ When he appeared before a large audience at the Wizink Center in Madrid to celebrate two decades in the first edition of Benidorm Fest, Spain’s Eurovision pre-selection, it helped cement a career that had just hit one of its big milestones a few months ago. career.
“The moment I see myself out there and people tell me ‘You did it’, no matter how hungry I am, inside music I guess I was already saying goodbye to some things“She ponders what that moment means, like the pandemic that has made her think about many vital concepts.
Just a month after releasing her eighth and final album, which she says she’s proud of, she realizes the obvious paradox of her decision as she finds herself in one of her “most creative moments” and is also about to make her television debut. As an assistant consultant on Atresmedia’s “The Voice”.
“When I finished the recording, I felt calm. I thought it was over, I had to quit. I wanted to choose my path, embrace the music in another way and dedicate myself to the novel,” she adds. He thinks he’s “honest” and doesn’t want it to be “distorted”.
A tour will follow the launch of ‘La victoria imposible’ on April 21 “for the album itself, for the public, and for the band that just got over the pandemic”. It will take a year and a half and as he admits he wants it to end in his home city of Alcalá de Henares (Madrid).
“I’m not going to do what the others who left the music did and came back soon after, this is a final farewell,” said Rayden, who began work on his second novel with Álvaro, which put the two collaborations on hold. That Juan Pablo Vega and the anonymous section of the music industry do not disregard to continue “as A&R or by composing for others”.