Melendi is open to new Latin sounds in "Take off your glasses", an album in which the musician claimed as an engine of change knowledge of the strengths and intimate weaknesses faced criticism "easy" and others which coincides with his return as mentor the hit show "The voice". "I would not have entered the competition," says Ramón Melendi (Oviedo, 1979) in an interview with Efe in which he describes his as a "tiny little voice" that every day has strived to grow in terms of "respect "to his profession and the public. That is evident in his eighth studio album, which goes on sale today, for example in a different way to place the throat when addressing more pop songs, but the biggest surprises of "Take off your glasses" (Sony Music) back from their sones Cuban approach. "What gives me afraid of change is the effort to do for it, but the reward then is wonderful," says Melendi the thread "Since we're together," actually a rumba that, being set in Cuba, dressed in a three, a key and the help of Descemer Well, the author of "Bailando" by Enrique Iglesias. Exceeded wonder at this first single, Melendi also presents the first collaboration of his career, "My greatest fortune," with the group of hip hop Colombian ChocQuibTown, whose "authenticity" He was charmed at a gala of the Latin Grammys.
"They lived in an environment where no one told them that happiness was to have things," says Melendi, marveling at "how moved it to his life and his music." In this change of worldview abounds his new album, for example in the "social satire" "Sons of evil", the result of "an increasingly recurring thought: could do more of what I do?". "At the individual level I think we have more power than we think. I wonder if I could raise my children another way than the conventional, with other priorities," says Spanish. This "Take off your glasses", a title that includes the name of one of the cuts, could really be called as the opening track on the album, "Flowers of water and lead", which speaks of another change of optics. "It arises from the ease with which others saw things that were mine. I realized that when you identify those things that you criticize are yours, the funny thing is that you stop seeing them in others," argues Melendi. The Spaniard, who precisely on that topic sings "I do not like guys, those who are hard / because they feel that this is how life sees them", opens increasingly romantic songs with Italian overtones, because this is also a record of "love, heartbreak and heartbreak in love" and give it more pompous record pieces with piano and winds as "a great love".
"What I've done well is always to value what I am and not try to do well what I know is not my forte," says Melendi however, a council that tries to convey to the contestants of "The Voice". A television program has become hugely popular as "coach" in his fourth Spanish edition, after participating only in the first. "I had really bad with some decisions. It's very frustrating, because I have gone through the same time they and very hard to tell someone who is very good but I like another," he explains. He who doubts that had passed the first casting if the "vocal unawareness of 18 years," he had carried it says that a musician "by chance, not by chance." "Fate is there, but must be sought, does not come home," he stresses.
