2023-11-25 07:50:13
On Friday, Francisco Javier Alvarez Beretbetter known by his stage name Beretwill fill the WiZink Center of Madrid as the highlight of his last tour. The capital’s venue has become a benchmark of artistic success for musicians of all kinds and is the one they have chosen to present their second album, Resiliencehis most ambitious work to date, which features collaborations with Omar Montes and Tow. With almost no time to recover, the next day he will perform at the Kings Leage final, the football competition created by Ibai and Gerard Piqué, at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona. No company seems too big for this 27-year-old who started by raising his mixtapes to YouTube half forced by a friend and who, with four and a half million followers on the video platform, has taken his music to even broader territories. A couple of weeks ago performed in the Vatican before the Pope and 6,000 young people from all over the world next to the Italian Mr. Rain while finalizing details of his debut as a presenter alongside other well-known faces such as Mario Vaquerizo or Maxi Iglesias. It will be in the talent show Meetings with flavor which is sponsored by the Mahou brewery and will broadcast La Sexta at the beginning of next year.
All this maelstrom does not seem to take too much of a toll on the mood of Beret, whom almost everyone around him simply calls Fran, who willingly lends himself to a photo session and interview during a break between recordings. As he himself remembers, all this comes a long time. “I started in 2013 without realizing I was starting. This is very important because I really didn’t premedit anything, I just recorded people from my neighborhood who were rapping. I had a sound card that I bought second-hand without really knowing what I was doing and on one of those I started to record my first rap, some songs that I played to some friends in my neighborhood, but very privately,” he recalls. “One of those friends uploaded a song on YouTube without telling me anything, and a lot of people started talking to me and telling me that they liked the song. I didn’t know what they were talking about. At the time I hated my friend, but now I love him because he gave me the push to get rid of my fears,” he recalls with a laugh.
“One of those friends uploaded a song on YouTube without telling me anything. At the time I hated my friend, but now I love him because he gave me the push to get rid of my fears”
If we take into account that the maximum capacity of the former Sports Palace of the Community of Madrid exceeds 15,000 people, it is easier to understand the milestone it represents for an artist who, for a long time, processed his success in digital format. “My first concert was in front of 30 people, and now I’m going to fill the WiZink“For me, that process has been brutal,” confesses Beret, who says that, especially in the beginning, he spent a lot of time anxiety. “First due to lack of knowledge, and then because I had a life that was a bit antithetical to all this: no one in my family was a musician or made me approach music, I had to learn while already being known. I had not worked in my entire life, I was studying high school. Fortunately, therapy helped me manage all of that, and now I’m calmer than ever.”.
Being honest with his weaknesses does not take away from his genuine enthusiasm when it comes to addressing his challenges, and that is why he is forceful when he assures that his concert on Friday will be “the best I have ever given in my life.” I’m going to do a super long concert. To try not to make everything sound the same as on the platforms, to sing old songs and those that I have released recently” and he says that the show “It is for that kid who, at 20 years old, will be able to see himself when he was 13 and listen to a song of mine that he loved, and will listen to the new songs, and enjoy the collaborations that my agendas allow in a full WiZink, with a lot of people singing and shouting all my phrases.”
It all started with rap
“I was inspired by rappers like Violadores del Verso or SFDK,” Beret remembers about his beginnings. “I also listened reggae or to singer-songwriters like Sabina, who my father played,” he says, but adds that the main source from which he has drawn “I would say is rap, because it has a lot to say, a lot of information. My way of being and the way I think today comes a lot from what I have learned from rap,” he says. Since then, Beret has been building an artistic identity that includes pop, urban sounds or hits Italians, and which has led him to collaborate in an unprejudiced way with artists such as Sebastián Yatra, Estopa, Aitana, Melendi, Pablo Alborán or Lola Índigo. “People come to me, a minority, who tell me that I should do something more similar to my older music, which is what they listen to. I tell them that I no longer think like I did when I was 17,” he says, adding: “The people who are with me know that, even if my music changes, they are there because of what is said, because of the lyrics, because of those ‘bars’. ‘ [versos o frases que se cantan en el rap] that have helped them in some sense.”
“If I want to release a ‘reggae’ song I will release it, but I had been recording rap for a long time and I got tired of it”
“I continue rapping at home with my colleagues, and I continue singing reggae. If I want to bring up a topic reggae I will release it, but I had been recording rap for a long time and I was tired of it,” he concludes. Match by match seems the most effective philosophy for an artist who, days before the big presentation of his second album, does not hesitate to assure that he does not trust the format: “I have always said it: I don’t like records, I like them singlesgo to the studio, work in a single because it’s beautiful, looking for the combination in an album so that everything has a meaning, but I like to make songs because they summarize a stage, a moment, better than an album,” he confesses, to finish, with a somewhat rogue, “I’m telling you this and in 10 years I’ll still tell you that I’m crazy about records. I’m into making songs and there comes a time when I say ‘damn, I have 12131415 songs, let’s find a common point among all of us and make an album’. Because it is true that an album also gives a meaning to the tour“.
In a time in which the vindication of the natural, the neighborhood and the street has become another stage of posturing, it is enriching to find an artist who, even perched on overwhelming success, is credible in his simplicity. That’s why he doesn’t squeak when he talks about his new project as a television presenter (“I think it’s super nice to get out of that space in which I’m already very calm and be able to realize that I’m capable of doing other things”) after openly admitting not be a fan of talent shows culinary nor too handy with the stove. That realness leads him to recognize that experience can open doors to a type of public that does not know him, while anticipating that he is doing many singles because he has “worked a lot during these months” and is preparing an even more extensive tour for 2024 than this year. May the rhythm not stop.
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