In fact, Julieta Venegas was born in Long Beach, California but has Mexican nationality. The 46-year-old singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and activist grew up in Tijuana, home to parents photographers. It was she, in the middle of the 90s, the pioneer in that of being a singer who gave relevant weight to the music she was playing. Remember that it began in the ranks of the band of ska-reggae Tijuana No!
Juliet has one of the strongest and most consistent musical careers in the industry. Little by little he has forged the enormous credibility with which he sustains all his albums. Here (1997), Bueninvento (2000), Yes (2003), Limón y Sal (2006), Otra Cosa (2010), Los Momentos (2013) and Something Happens (2015), are part of his discography in which themes such as " Walk With Me ," " Something Is Changing ," " The Present ," " Slow ," " Good or Evil ," " You Are For Me ," "I Go," have become classics.
They are already 20 years of race like soloist. It is not a number that is present but does not see it as a reason for celebration. "Oh No!" He exclaims by telephone. It was a couple of years ago when we were promoting his seventh album Algo Sucede (2015). With regard to the musical journey that Venegas has traveled, it is precisely this disc, which shows the level of experience that reached. Lyrically he connects with a certain type of nostalgia, he immerses himself in the reflective, appeals to the sense of solitude and musically shows much more joyful than he had been doing. " I do not know if it's like a connection, what I feel when I'm writing. I like writing a lot, it's a therapeutic thing, " he says about the gestation of this album.
Assiduous reader. His inspirations come from those stories that he collects through the books he consumes. For example in Something Happens, is the autobiographical series of the novels Mi lucha , by the Norwegian Karl Ove Knausgård , and In search of lost time , by the Frenchman Marcel Proust . " I'm very inspired by what I'm reading, it always creeps in. I like reading a lot, I'm like obsessive, I like it almost as much as music ," he confesses.
Even so, it does not dare to interfere in the editorial plane. " I think I'm more reading, I've never seen it like writing. I'm very curious about literature, I like geography, poetry a lot. Writing is not my thing ", he advances with regard to the possibility of creating some kind of anthology or stories Of its authorship.
Mama of Simona, a seven year old girl who dedicated the theme " It Will Be Explained ", where she develops all that tranquility and positivism towards her offspring. Juliet has to manage that line between the Latin American pop artist and the mother who should train her growing baby. For her there is no such trace between the two worlds. " My daughter keeps me with her feet on the ground.To my singing is very beautiful, also the music.I do not feel any separation between my personality as a singer and being a mother, I think everything is the same.It has to do with logistics, She always travels with me. It's like being at home, "he explains about this.
During the 2015 Julieta Venegas together with Did Gutman ( Brazilian Girls ), Ale Sergi ( Miranda!) And producer Cachorro López , to give life to Meteoros , a sort of super multinational band and, on that pretext, they published a homonymous album. " We had a great time together. I really enjoyed the experience, " he recalls the ensemble that constitutes a pop complicity of members who, in one way or another, work together at different times or projects. " Being part of a group, that fun process with Meteors , was part of what led us to do that project. As a Puppy in his role as producer as all in our roles, we felt that it was different than if it were each with his Ideas, "he recognizes by seeing himself again interacting as a member of a group in which all ideas must mesh.
She is a faithful collaborator of tributes or tributes to Mexican music personalities. However, in the duet album of the late Juan Gabriel , his presence was not materialized. " They did not give me the dates, they called me several times and I was on tour, we never got together, it had to do with logistics more than anything else because I love Juanga and I would have loved to be on his album, " he says.
Taking part in it is easy, and has performed duets with Sasha Sökol ( "wet Alma"), Coti Soronki ( "Let me go" and "Feel"), Paulina Rubio ( "I'm going to be"), Enanitos Verdes ( " I allowed myself to dream "), Nelly Furtado (" Under another light "and" Vacacion "), Jorge Villamizar (" Tell me who "), besides making remixes to Hello Seahorse! (" Beast "), Ceci Bastida (" Como Am ") and Laura León (" Suavecito ").
The compositions of Julieta have given character to him in Latin America, for that reason it has opened an important gap. Two decades have passed and femininity in indie rock , folk or pop , is more than latent. " It's a wonder the number of women composers making music in Latin America. Let a woman tell her stories, with her style, etc. Camila Moreno , Javiera Mena ... I love music made by women, I am very follower, at all times. I admire, there are a lot of very good, talented girls, the more women there are, the less they will have to talk about it, "she says with emotion.
These days he is seen active in social networks, creating content, doing surveys, interacting with his audience. " I like to stop and start a new album ," he told me then. Here we expect the next thing that is brewing.
