derailed Artistic name of David Martínez Álvarez, a versatile artist who will be touring all summer for his 20th anniversary. The artist, who participated in the Benidorm Festival this year with the song ‘Calle de la llorería’, It is a benchmark of rap, a genre that fuses with other styles. to get your messages to a wider audience. He has collaborated with numerous artists and combined music with writing.
– How would you describe the show you are touring?
–’20. You will be able to enjoy one of the concerts of the ‘anniversary tour’. For the tour, we chose the songs we wanted to share with the public because I think I had the sweetest moment on a personal, professional and group level. I really want to play for Toro and above all encourage, cheer up and give Zamora a break because unfortunately she is going through a difficult time because of the fires. I dedicate myself to a very beautiful profession that is a meeting point and can encourage people.
–Concert ’20. part of the ‘anniversary tour, how do you feel when you look back?
– What I feel is that everything is so fast and time does not ask. It’s been 20 years since I started writing songs even though I’ve only devoted myself to music for eight or nine years.
–While Rayden is a reference to rap, has his fusion with other genres allowed him to bring his music closer to a wider and more diverse audience?
-Completely. It wasn’t something he was looking for, but it was inevitable. I love making impossible collaborations where people may think they have no place a priori but when they listen to them they make sense of everything in the world. When the public sees someone so carefree and, in the best sense, who has lost their respect for music and created something new, they reward it. The public rewards the truth, and just like when you go to a festival and want to see your favorite artists and bands, collaborations serve to create doors and windows and listen to a conversation and a wardrobe.
–You have collaborated with many artists, what do these collaborations give you on a personal and professional level?
I always liken these collaborations to a relationship. They leave a residue and take something from you when they break up, but you also get something from that relationship. You learn a lot when you collaborate with such wonderful and humble people. I learned that if I started to be at that point, I had to treat it in a normal and natural way. Working with other artists also helps me broaden my musical spectrum, and while I’ve never been too biased, they’ve helped me remove some of the things about music. I want the music to grow, be heard and played together.
–Besides being a singer and a composer, you write, which aspect do you feel most comfortable with or do they all complement each other?
The stage is where I feel most comfortable. Even during sound checks, I breathe easy when I go on stage and it’s like a lighthouse. I would like to ask my colleagues if the same thing happens to them, because I have a feeling of belonging to a scene that I don’t know if others have. But now I am writing a novel and for the first time I feel like I have a profession.
– Don’t you feel the same profession when writing songs?
-I started writing obligatory songs in music because my friends wanted to form a band and I went after it. As far as the novel is concerned, I feel for the first time that I have a profession.
– What are your sources of inspiration?
– When I say life, it sounds very pompous, but I think the best source of inspiration is living. There is only one thing without musicality, death. Being alive allows everything to move and new threads to grow that can be pulled.
-You are sure that you feel comfortable on stage, have you missed that feeling due to the pandemic in the last two years?
– More for the technical team than me. I also have other sources of income because I write and publish records and I don’t live day to day. But workers who found themselves involved in live music or live photography had a hard time and many professionals were lost. Now they are suffering from labor shortage at many festivals.