00:00The songs of Bacillus and the fans made Bacillus come back.
00:04It has been wonderful to make dreams come true.
00:08But it is also interesting that in life you realize that everything has a cost.
00:18Well, friends of Billboard, and from Viña del Mar, finally, today we are with Bacillus.
00:24How are you?
00:26Super good, thank you very much. What a good invitation and how nice to coincide here in Viña.
00:29Yes, thank you very much.
00:31How nice, we have really enjoyed you this week in different ways.
00:35We have seen you as jurors. How have you felt this week?
00:43As jurors and fans, because we have also had the opportunity to see artists that we admire a lot on stage.
00:50And obviously, we also admire the guys.
00:52To have the courage to come as a rookie and stand in front of the monster, that is not easy.
01:01It requires a lot of respect.
01:05Your first time as jurors, right?
01:08First time, yes.
01:10I know that the night you were here, you made us dance.
01:15It was a very... I don't know, it was a party.
01:19It didn't matter the cold, it didn't matter the time, but it was literally a party of Bacillus.
01:24Yes, it was very beautiful.
01:26After Marc, well, singing and playing after Marc is a responsibility, a challenge.
01:34But the people stayed, they stayed there on a cold night.
01:38We have a house full and the people were happy to see us again in Viña.
01:44We played the classics, we had a great time.
01:47And so we started an incredible week.
01:49Now we are still, as Jorge mentioned, as fans and as jurors, but enjoying every day.
01:55Speaking of that, that you are also as fans, yesterday I saw you dancing the dance of Huitlacoche.
02:04I want to know, obviously we saw that experience, but I want to know what you felt,
02:09because apart from the band music, it's incredible.
02:13It gives you a lot of energy, I feel.
02:17Was it your first band concert?
02:21Look, it was our first concert, Karim León.
02:23Yes, and he is an artist that I personally discovered recently.
02:28Because he is very young, right?
02:30Let's say his phenomenon started a couple of years ago.
02:3218, if I'm not mistaken.
02:34Well, two years ago was the first time I heard him.
02:37I downloaded the playlist, I got on a plane and I listened to it and I became a super fan.
02:42But in the life that we have, it is very difficult to coincide with colleagues and go to concerts.
02:47Suddenly being there in the front row and seeing the concert of an artist that you have been listening to for a while,
02:53it was great, because I already know the songs and it was incredible.
02:58And he represents Mexican folklore.
03:01He is not only a singer, he is a folklorist in some way.
03:05And then doing moments like the dance with the car was very fun.
03:10Very fun, because Latin American folklore is cheerful, it is fun and it is common among all.
03:15What Karim himself said, he said these roots music,
03:20this music that comes from the roots is very similar among all of us.
03:24You can dance that genre that I don't really know technically what rhythm it is.
03:29Dance it in Chile and everyone dances it.
03:33I don't know, from North America, South America and everything that is in the middle, dancing the same.
03:37No, no, how nice. He always says that he brings the musicians from Sonora, where he is from.
03:42I still don't understand what huitlacoche is, I once asked him and I didn't understand a thing.
03:47Huitlacoche is a fungus that is born in the corn and it is eaten.
03:52It is like a fungus that grows the corn inside the leaf and between the leaf and the grain.
03:58It looks disgusting because it is a fungus and you take it out and it is like a cream.
04:03It has a strong smell.
04:05Yes, yes, but it is delicious.
04:07I thought it was like a bird.
04:11There may be a bird that knows huitlacoche, but the huitlacoche that we don't know.
04:15That likes corn.
04:16Yes, yes, yes.
04:17But it may be a bird, who knows.
04:19No, no, of course.
04:21It was incredible. How did you feel being present and singing?
04:28It was a lot of fun.
04:30How often did you come?
04:32We come to Chile every year.
04:34We do tours in the summers, January, February.
04:39For many years in a row we come.
04:41We play in communes, in towns from north to south in Chile.
04:45We always have a good time.
04:47Last year we went to the Festival of the Counts and this year I came from the sea.
04:50So there is a constant connection with Chile.
04:54But Viña, obviously when we play in Viña, the last time was in 2007, in the festival.
05:00In 2007, which was our last show before we took those long holidays of 10 years.
05:07But it was a reunion with the monster and there was a mutual affection and mutual respect.
05:14And we had an incredible time.
05:16It is very fun.
05:18There is a bit of anxiety, a bit of fear.
05:21But it is a very important stage and the people welcomed us in a very nice way.
05:27Speaking of these reunions, my first million is 23 years old.
05:33I don't know if it already turned 23 or if it turns 23 this year.
05:362003, 2004.
05:38I think more.
05:3921 years.
05:40That seemed to me...
05:4121 years?
05:42Yes, it came out in 2003, 2004.
05:4421 years.
05:46How has life changed?
05:48Because obviously it is completely different.
05:51On top of that, you had those long holidays.
05:57How has life changed in those years?
06:00Or that time you came to Viña?
06:04Our career as artists goes through different phases.
06:08When you are young in your first moment of fame and success,
06:14life is an incredible, crazy, confusing experience.
06:20Youth is an experience in itself.
06:22We all know that.
06:23All of us who are old can see what it is like to be young.
06:27That was a wonderful time.
06:30We did two Viñas during those years.
06:33The Latin American audience accepted us.
06:36They opened the doors for us.
06:37We were a novelty.
06:41That is a way of living.
06:43Years go by and your music either stays or ends.
06:51And ours, thank God, stayed.
06:53Even though we are not artists in the industry.
06:58We have come to be appreciated by our colleagues,
07:04by the new industry.
07:06Because Basilos really resuscitates thanks to digital platforms.
07:11Because we all realized that we sounded.
07:15Of course.
07:16You are part of us.
07:18Of course.
07:19But before that was not seen.
07:22Because if you weren't on the Billboard charts,
07:25you didn't exist.
07:26The parameters or indicators were a bit diffuse.
07:31They were not clear about what the Latin American people
07:34really accepted as music, as something of their own.
07:38Basilos is an interesting example of an artist
07:41who was favored by the algorithm.
07:44We were separated and suddenly they told us,
07:47you have so many millions of listeners.
07:50The people?
07:51Yes, the industry, our friends.
07:53Rosa Garriguez, Rebeca León.
07:56People we knew for years.
07:58They said, hey, you know what's going on.
08:00People from the industry, Walter Cohn.
08:02Everyone started telling us.
08:04People who knew us from another life, from another time.
08:07Do you understand what's going on?
08:09We talked and said, hey Andres, something is happening.
08:12Of course, because I'm telling you.
08:14Digital platforms do...
08:16In 2015 the numbers of Spotify really came out.
08:19So how many millions?
08:21But they're not playing, they're not promoting,
08:23they're not touring, they're not...
08:25No, no, no.
08:26They're doing their own thing, each one.
08:28But you have to get together, you have to come back.
08:30So really, in a way, the songs of Basilos and the fans
08:35made Basilos come back.
08:38How beautiful.
08:39Very interesting.
08:40I think we needed it.
08:41All of us.
08:42Because yes, because obviously they are part of the soundtrack
08:46of all of us, of the path that we have all been walking.
08:51And how did you like this new part of the industry
08:54that you see now?
08:56In this return of Basilos, so to speak.
08:59Although they already have a couple of years too.
09:01It's interesting.
09:02Yes, I think that the new system, let's say,
09:05allows artists like us, who are independent artists,
09:09to continue doing our thing.
09:11I imagine that before, being independent was much more difficult.
09:14If you didn't have a label, a support, a large structure,
09:18it was practically impossible.
09:20Today, the distribution is digital, the promotion is digital.
09:24So it allows you to do your thing and be able to connect
09:28with the whole world at the same time, immediately.
09:31So that's very important.
09:33On the other hand, this is much faster.
09:36So suddenly, for artists who are calmer or slower,
09:41not so cybernetic, that generates so much content,
09:46it's something that maybe we can't keep up with.
09:50But it's okay, because what we've noticed is that
09:53this new generation that knows how to use these technologies
09:56of communication, of contact with the artist,
09:59have discovered Basilos in this way, in a cybernetic way.
10:04So we see in the shows this new generation of fans
10:07who are children or were very young when we played
10:11in Caraluna, in Millon, more than 20 years ago.
10:14So now they have, for the first time, the opportunity
10:17to sing a song with Basilos live.
10:20So there's a reunion with the fans as always,
10:24a new reunion with these fans.
10:26New faces.
10:27New faces, new ages, new spirit.
10:30How beautiful.
10:31Last year, you released the album Pequeños Romances.
10:36Obviously, it had the Basilos label.
10:40What have you prepared for this year?
10:42Have you prepared something?
10:44I know that sometimes music goes so fast
10:46that it's hard for us to enjoy it.
10:49The problem is that music goes so fast.
10:52In principle, our plan is to continue showing
10:56what that album was, what the album is.
10:58Because we are independent, so we work in our own way.
11:02We see how we do it, we go by different forces
11:07from the artists who are signed with labels.
11:10But you never know, because everything goes so fast.
11:13It seems like a possibility of a collaboration.
11:15Or someone thinks, let's do a version in another genre
11:18of this song from the album.
11:19And the path starts to change on its own.
11:24And you react depending on how things go.
11:27Because it's a very fast medium.
11:29It's a medium in which the plans change very quickly
11:33because the form of communication is instantaneous.
11:36The meetings and the ability to record something with someone
11:40or to create something.
11:41It's a new world.
11:42It's a very interesting world.
11:44And what you have to be is ready.
11:47What you have to be is in shape.
11:49To take.
11:50Exactly.
11:51We are athletes and we have to be in shape to play.
11:54Hey, do you want to play a tennis game with so-and-so?
11:56Let's go.
11:57Or do you want to go to this championship?
11:59Let's go.
12:00It's more or less the same.
12:01We are in shape, we are working all the time.
12:03We have a band.
12:04We are one of the survivors, let's say, of live music,
12:07of the bands that play our instruments.
12:11People sometimes think that André and I are the two singers of Basilos.
12:14That's not true.
12:15We are owners of a brand called Basilos.
12:20But we are part of a band.
12:23We have a band on stage.
12:24André plays the bass.
12:26I play the acoustic guitar.
12:27I sing.
12:28There is a drummer.
12:29There is an electric guitarist.
12:33Everything that is heard on the records is there.
12:35That's how it is and that's what we do.
12:39So, we have that formed.
12:42That team of work is active.
12:43We are ready for any eventuality.
12:45To go out.
12:46Exactly.
12:47If you had, for example, three people who told you,
12:50right now that we have been in Viña,
12:52look, let's record.
12:55Who would you like?
12:57That it was like telling them ...
13:01The three shows,
13:03apart from the shows we saw last week,
13:05there is Mark, there is Carlos,
13:07there is Karim, there is Yatra.
13:10But it's a trap.
13:11Some I don't know.
13:14But they are.
13:15Well, also.
13:16They would encourage us to do a regional agenda.
13:20Yes.
13:21If they were not here,
13:23we would be thinking,
13:24in a way,
13:25to be on the list of Basilos.
13:29To do something with Carlos Vives and Basilos.
13:31Carlos Vives would be very funny.
13:32They have never done it, right?
13:34Yes, we did a version of Caraluna.
13:36What happened is that it was in the year of the pandemic.
13:38Then all that was entangled.
13:41Nothing big was made.
13:43Because you know,
13:44what happened, happened.
13:45Yes.
13:46We re-recorded Caraluna with Carlos.
13:49At the same time that we re-recorded Tabaco Chanel with Morat.
13:53And they both came out at the same time,
13:54but it was in the middle of the madness of the pandemic.
13:58But they are there.
13:59If you want to listen.
14:00They are there on the platforms.
14:02Basilos and Carlos and Basilos and Morat.
14:06How beautiful.
14:07And they went on tour too.
14:09Last year they were also here.
14:11Or they have a Movistar in Chile right now.
14:14Yes.
14:15Where are they going?
14:17We never stop.
14:19We are on a constant tour.
14:21We did a very interesting tour in the United States,
14:24in Canada,
14:25we went last year.
14:26This year we were in Paraguay,
14:28we were in Argentina,
14:29we were on a picnic in Costa Rica,
14:31we were in Guatemala,
14:32now we are in Viña.
14:34In two weeks we will be in Movistar in Bogotá.
14:37Ah yes, in Bogotá.
14:38In Bogotá,
14:39Movistar in Bogotá.
14:40The next day,
14:41March 14,
14:42in Medellín,
14:43in the Teatro Metropolitano.
14:45We have a small tour of two weeks in Mexico in April.
14:50We go to Spain on the weekends of June,
14:53Barcelona, Madrid,
14:54festivals,
14:55and the Guitar Festival in Barcelona.
14:58And we return to Chile on July 31 for the Movistar in Santiago.
15:03So, as you can see,
15:04we don't stop.
15:05And among those dates that I mentioned to you,
15:07there are a few that I don't remember,
15:09but we are still on our way to Latin America,
15:11constantly on tour.
15:13We continue to promote the album Pequeños Romances.
15:16Today we are working on a specific song,
15:19which is the notes of my psychologist,
15:21which are listed in some countries.
15:23People like a lot what we did,
15:26because it is something very,
15:28very vain on this album.
15:30So, we continue.
15:32We continue doing our thing and playing a lot.
15:34I love it.
15:35Well, no,
15:36thank you for being here with us.
15:38How nice to have enjoyed you live again,
15:41to have you here,
15:43and we hope to see you soon in Miami too.
15:46There we are.
15:47From time to time.
15:48From time to time, yes.
15:50Because how difficult, right?
15:51It's difficult.
15:52It's difficult to be away from home.
15:54Yes, it is.
15:55You have to be very careful
15:57with what you ask for in life.
15:59You know what I was going to ask you?
16:01How has been the life of an artist
16:03and living from songs?
16:08Well, it has been wonderful.
16:10I mean, to achieve,
16:11to make dreams come true.
16:13But it is also interesting that in life
16:15you realize that everything has a cost.
16:17Totally.
16:18And this has been difficult,
16:19especially in the phase of raising children.
16:22It's difficult.
16:23Yes, I really,
16:25my respects obviously to the artists,
16:27because yes,
16:28the energy they have to have,
16:30like the attitude,
16:31the face they see,
16:32because,
16:33imagine,
16:34I mean,
16:35you have a lot of eyes all the time.
16:37More and more,
16:38because when we started,
16:39no one had cameras in their hands 24 hours.
16:42Nowadays,
16:43it's a camera for photos and videos,
16:45constantly,
16:46everyone has it on their phones.
16:48So,
16:49yes,
16:50it's a job.
16:51But,
16:52in general,
16:53I think we are enjoying it more than ever.
16:55We enjoy the stages much more.
16:57We are much more grateful.
16:59We know the effort the fans make
17:02to be in a show,
17:04to pay,
17:05to be there,
17:06to move,
17:07to organize.
17:08So,
17:09we have a great time on stage
17:10and we enjoy each show.
17:11And every time we release a new song,
17:13it's something very special for us.
17:15And,
17:16we are having a great time.
17:18It's like life.
17:19Learning to live in the present
17:21and enjoy it.
17:22Exactly.
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