He led the Spanish-speaking campaign for years, but 30 years after arriving in the United States, he works with composer and producer PooBear to radically change the style of his career.
Last March Juanes announced in an interview with Billboard that this year he would release his first song in English, something surprising considering that for years he led the "Speak Spanish" campaign. But as everyone has the right to follow new paths, 30 years after arriving in Los Angeles, paisa decided to renew their music and release their first song sung in English: "Goodbye for now."
"After several years living in this country (United States) and improving my command of the language, I feel much more comfortable with it," Juanes told Billboard, a publication in which he also commented that his interest in singing in that language began Four or five years, but that was "complicated," so "the first experiments I did did not go very well."
That's why he decided to seek the help of composer and producer PooBear.
"We sat together and chatted for hours about feelings and many other issues," he said, "and he was the one who knew the right words to express those ideas, and I still find it very difficult to do that in English, , Said the musician in the American magazine.
Although "Goodbye for now" is the first song written and sung in English by Juanes, it is not the first approach with the language, because In 2013 in the Grammy gala interpreted a version of "Your Song", of Elton John, in The one that included some phrases in Spanish, something that had tried with the subject "Hungry Heart" during the tribute of the Academy of the Recording to Bruce Springsteen.
"Goodbye for now" is part of "My plans are amarte", visual album coming to market on 12 May. Days later, on the 19th, HBO Latino will air the documentary "The Juanes effect: de canciones y transformaciones" in which Juanes talks about his new album and his family life.
