Author, composer and performer, Daniel Martin He has been in his career for 20 years and his songs marked an entire generation. With more than two million records sold, ticket sales records and major tours, he will return to Starlite Catalana Occidente to meet his audience five years later. After everything he’s experienced in recent months, his How expensive is time tour will include a selection of the old songs from El Canto del Loco reversioned, which can be enjoyed on August 23 and 24, at the Nagüeles Quarry.
He acknowledges that he has obsessively sought the applause of critics and peers for years. It was the flag of El Canto del Loco and it was raised as the flag of El Canto del Loco. Many years later he recognizes that he has removed that slab and that now he is “at the moment that I have the most truffle” to please. The goal of this artist with decades of teen idol image has been to seek and find respect.
The last single he released with Ilegales was ‘Juventud, egolatría’, also the album ‘No, no Volver’ remixed the songs that raised him with El Canto del Loco, now brings together on this tour the fans of yesteryear as well as those won by own right. How is this process of rereading and, at the same time, saying goodbye to the past?
It is a chosen and necessary moment due to the situations experienced these years ago. People want to participate in the concerts and this was the tracklist that we deserved. People want to live.
Are you afraid of being confused with nostalgia?
I only fear diseases.
Now, at 45, it’s like somehow starting a new musical career after this pandemic put everyone on the starting block, don’t you think?
Every day a new life begins, whoever thinks they have something already achieved is wrong, every day dawns to learn and keep walking.
He says to flee from marketing and posturing in a decade designed for that, where record companies ask their artists to upload viral tiktoks to release their singles. What do you think of this dynamic?
My record company has never asked me to do anything but music in 22 years. In my opinion, show the truth and what you are is the best campaign the marketing.
Do you take young voices seriously, more than you did at the beginning with El Canto del Loco? What separates and unites you from the generations that are dominating the scene?
I respect everyone who respects the task, who takes care of their project, who pampers it. I love to see that C Tangana has done what he wants and has rolled a good pifostio. I like him, he is real, he is unique. I like that.
When you talk to your parents or your close circle, how do they see this transformation in which honesty with yourself and others prevails, and what have you noticed?
About what I suffer less and that, therefore, my circle suffers less.
Would you like to dress up in the glamor of the singer’s myth, either like so many you have admired, in the style of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sabina, or others, almost untouchable?
Sabina is glamorous even in her pajamas. When someone has that, that point of magic that gives life to some, there is no need for artifice or nonsense. Either you have it or you don’t, and that’s the way it is. Camarón, Beatles, Stones… If you force it, it shows, you have it or you don’t. That is decided by the public on the road.
What do you think of the role of female artists in the music industry?
My team is led by a woman, I wish we were governed by a woman and I am happy that there are more and more female bands and artists. I really like, for example, Las Ginebras, they are illusion personified, and I want to be close to that. It’s magic, they are magic, I’m an absolute fan.
As a Madrilenian, if you had to choose between meeting your exes in the capital or granting scholarships to high-income earners, what would you choose?
As a Madrilenian, I would prefer to eat some tripe at Lucio, and some fried eggs with potatoes.
A period to repeat with Chema and David?
We enjoyed ourselves, we made songs, but now we each do what we feel like. I don’t want to go back to my ex from 13 years ago, it would be absurd.