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Edgar Barrera caught up with Billboard's Tetris Kelly at the Spotify Best New Artist Party 2026.
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00:00Hey, you're walking up dripping in the Dior. How are you feeling tonight?
00:02I'm feeling excited. I want to see all those best in your...
00:05artists that are out there performing tonight. I'm excited to see the new talent, and yeah.
00:09Yeah, I mean, this...
00:10What category is stacked with these eight names? Who have you, like, been listening to or supporting?
00:14A lot of Olivia.
00:15Oh, yeah.
00:16Yeah.
00:17Big fan.
00:18Big fan right here.
00:19Yeah.
00:20And then how...
00:20How is it, as an artist, to come to these events during Grammy week and be surrounded by...
00:25so many of your peers?
00:26It's...
00:27For me, it's like a celebration of the whole...
00:30ears that, you know, you work really hard throughout the year, and this is like the...
00:35celebration where you see all your friends, and peers, and managers, and publishers, and
00:39this is...
00:40where, like, the magic happens, you know.
00:42I just saw a couple of my peers that I wanted to work with.
00:45Everything.
00:46We just reconnected, and, you know, we have sessions next week already, so it's...
00:49It's special.
00:50It's special for, you know, for the Academy and for, you know, Spotify to do these awards.
00:55You know, Billboard, you know, everybody to be involved, because we get to, you know,
00:59see our...
01:00our friends and...
01:01create more music.
01:02I mean, you can't just say, like, oh, I saw some peers, and we got sessions.
01:05It's coming up.
01:06So what can you tease us about new music you're working on, and what you might be...
01:09who you might be working with?
01:10I mean, I recently just worked with Peso Pluma.
01:12I love Peso.
01:13Yeah, Peso's great.
01:14We just...
01:15created this new album that just dropped a couple weeks ago.
01:18I'm excited for...
01:20for that.
01:21I'm really excited today.
01:22We dropped a new Fuerza Regida song too.
01:23Ah, yes.
01:24That was a good song.
01:25That was a good song.
01:25I'm excited for...
01:27new music with...
01:29any...
01:30anybody that wants to work with me, you know.
01:31There's a lot of stuff going on that...
01:33I'm working on the Santana new album.
01:35I'm trying to work with Legends also, and kind of feed that internal soul of...
01:40the music that I grew up listening to.
01:42Santana is insane.
01:43Yeah, I grew up listening to Santana.
01:45with all that smooth and Maria Maria and...
01:47and now working with a legend like Santana for me...
01:50it's just like...
01:51a dream come true, and I'm excited for that too.
01:53Ah, amazing.
01:54Well, have so much fun at the park.
01:55Thanks for hanging out with us.
01:56Thank you so much.
01:57Yeah, thank you.
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