“I try to make every song be like the first or the last”

How do you move forward in these first weeks of combining music and parenting?

It was easier than I imagined, much more intuitive. I was warned how difficult this could be, and this answer will sound very ironic because I’m sure my baby starts crying (laughs) as I say it, but this baby was custom made for our route. He has followed our creative rhythm and movement since he was born: different cars, planes, hotels, pillows and bathrooms… and very calm. And meanwhile, I’m learning to be a father.

Relevant, of course. This is evidenced by the way he announced his pregnancy to his last song, Pegao or his wife Evaluna, with Indigo.

I am so passionate about sharing what I feel in my personal life, it is very difficult to separate it from my artistic life. In the things I transform myself, I transform myself creatively.

How important is music in your life?

If I don’t feel productive, creatively active, I feel like I have unfinished business. Creativity is part of my day. When I’m at home, when I pick up the guitar, I want to express my ideas with a song, it’s my language. What I am most passionate about is the possibility of sharing my life with the people who matter to me. When you’re in a nice place and you don’t send a photo to your family, it’s like something is missing, right?

Have you ever disliked classifying yourself into a particular gender, do you do it consciously or does it come naturally?

I come from Colombia, one of the most biodiverse countries in the world. This diversity of fauna, flora, landscape or thermal ground is the same variety of colors, tastes, textures, ideas, ways of speaking… Therefore, it is very difficult for me to discover myself without finding diversity, and diversity is richness. This makes my whole job wet.

In any case, we are talking about urban music. Where does your inspiration come from?

Ever since I was little, my family listened to a wide variety of music. I had a huge cassette box in the house, so I could listen to Spanish music, Latin American folklore, Cuban trova, Colombian cumbia, whistles and drum music… things. It’s hard to pause on one genre, but it’s true that I owe a lot to the urban genre. I had my first opportunities through urban rhythms, which mean a lot.

Therefore, he owes this passion to his parents.

It wasn’t intentional, they didn’t play music for me like someone who trains warriors. The heard was heard for the love of hearing. It can come from Paco de Lucia to Atahualpa Yupanqui. They’re universes far from guitar, but they’ve also made me enjoy every chord I’ve discovered.

He’s now one of the best-known artists on the international stage, but it’s been a rough road. He even had to write for others.

The start was in Miami, where I was chasing my girlfriend. I traveled to meet him, search for him and fall in love with him, and in this pursuit I began writing songs in my spare time. The first opportunities provided me with female urban artists who liked what I wrote. Searching for his voice and that of other artists, I finally found my own.

He has recently released two studio albums, but his rise to fame came much earlier. Have you lost some autonomy or do you retain your freedom while creating?

I make sure that every song is like the first or last song I will write. I accept the recognition with great love, and it’s an honor, but I try to forget that as I write. This album, İçten Dışa, which gave its name to this tour, is filled with so many new emotions that I didn’t know I could feel.

How do you go through this whole process with your wife Evaluna?

I love Evaluna very much, but I also share everything with her artistically, especially because I admire her. I feel he is one of the most creative people I know and everything he does is amazing. The director of all my videos, the creative head of the tour. Nothing in my project and in my life happens without his approval because I truly believe I have a great accomplice.

After some performances in major European cities, the final stage of his tour begins, his only destination being Spain. What are you hoping to find?

Spain continues to amaze me every day. When I think I’ve seen something huge, Spain comes and surprises me. Last year’s tour, despite all the regulations and restrictions, was for me the greatest tour anyone has ever experienced. It was my first tour, my first country, my first concert. You have always been my starting point. I’ve doubled and tripled the people I’ve had in the last year until this tour, and I’m wondering what happens next. I sum up all these feelings with deep gratitude, because I experience things beyond the imagination of the most ambitious dreamer.

Are you planning to take a break after this tour?

I always keep creating, because that’s what I love. A creative stance is like a breather. There will be songs as long as God allows me to continue my desire to share what I feel.

I imagine her daughter Indigo will have a lot of work from now on in this creative process…

Creativity is a reflection of self-knowledge. When I see Indigo every day, I realize that although I think it knows me, I am filled with dimensions I did not know I had. Owning it is the awakening of a number of very important things that inspire me.

Are we seeing the most mature Camilo now?

Let the avocados ripen. I don’t know if I am related to the word maturity, I need to think about it. As a creator, I’ve never been so proud as with this new album coming out in September. I feel like they’re the best songs I’ve ever written. But tomorrow I will be a different person and I will be sharing it honestly.