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MADRID (AP) — Capitalizing connected an awesome infinitesimal successful Spanish-language music, Uruguayan singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler is embarking connected his first circuit of Europe.
"Even Don Quixote didn’t get arsenic acold arsenic municipality Spanish-speaking euphony is getting coming successful nan world. You tin spell everyplace and you will find euphony that was written successful Spanish," he told The Associated Press successful an interview. "I’m happy to spot that (Spanish) opens doors to places that I ne'er thought that we could get before."
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His award-winning latest album, "Tinta y tiempo" ("Ink and time"), earned him 4 of his 13 Latin Grammy Awards, portion of a haul that includes an Oscar.
Uruguayan vocalist Jorge Drexler poses during an question and reply pinch The Associated Press successful Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, April 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
On his circuit Drexler will execute unrecorded for nan first clip "Derrumbe," a opus astir nan nonaccomplishment of emotion that he rescued from his notes. The opus was included successful nan 2021 TV show "Todo va a estar bien".
The European circuit will beryllium much friendly than nan shows of caller years, pinch voice, guitar and an unfastened repertoire — a "first date" pinch an assemblage that Drexler expects will beryllium seeing him for nan first time.
"I person ever looked West," he said, pinch performances successful nan United States, Canada, Mexico and elsewhere. "I person truthful overmuch activity successful that portion of nan world that I didn’t look East enough."
He looks guardant to seeing immoderate European cities for nan first clip and visiting others specified arsenic Paris and Berlin aft galore years. The circuit will return him to Denmark, Ireland, Italy and Sweden, among different countries.
After nan circuit ends successful mid-June, he will return to nan leather armchair successful his workplace successful Madrid to beryllium pinch a guitar and a blank portion of insubstantial and "try to get lucky."
But arsenic his repertoire grows, songwriting becomes much analyzable because "the much you release, nan much abstraction that occupies successful your brain," Drexler said.
"Once you’ve written 200 aliases 300 songs, each and each caller opus has to unfastened a small space," he said.
Resorting to artificial intelligence is not an option, astatine slightest for now. He tested ChatGPT and, though nan consequence "was perfectly written, from a syntactic, orthographic constituent of view," it lacked poetry.
"I for illustration biographies and I for illustration songwriters, and I for illustration to get to cognize nan characteristic of a person. And I for illustration nan mistakes that guideline you done unexpected places. So, I still for illustration songs written by quality beings," he said.
Drexler besides enjoys collaborations successful nan imaginative process, specified arsenic nan ones pinch C.Tangana, Rubén Blades, aliases Noga Erez successful his erstwhile album.
"It’s a alleviation for me, it relieves maine from myself," he said. "My worst force erstwhile it comes to penning is my past, my obsessions, nan measurement I work. It’s what I am. And I’m happy to show it, but astatine nan aforesaid time, it’s a big, large burden."
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In collaborating, location are nary restrictions successful nan benignant of euphony aliases nan generations that listen.
"I don’t deliberation that nan euphony we did successful nan past was nan (good) music, for illustration astir of my generation," Drexler said. "(I’m) much willing successful nan euphony that my 12-year-old girl listens to than nan 1 that my procreation utilized to perceive to. So I effort to beryllium unfastened to different things."
