00:00There are cases where people are recognized worldwide
00:04thanks to social media and I think it is very important and a very beautiful tool.
00:08At the same time, as in everything, it has things that you have to be able to manage.
00:14In the social media, we always start comparing the numbers, the likes,
00:19how many followers, how many likes you gave them,
00:22how many views you gave them, how many likes you gave them,
00:25how many good comments are and how many bad comments are,
00:28and how many people attack and how many people don't,
00:30and then you enter a world that is delicate,
00:33that you have to know how to handle,
00:35because obviously one as a human has these emotions and feelings
00:39and it would be a lie to say that those types of things don't affect you.
00:55I remember the beginning of Bonka as a very beautiful and important time in my life.
01:03Because everything was born from the friendship,
01:06everything was born from a very organic, very natural.
01:09We were in the school, we met with great friends,
01:14who became my best friends, who became my best friends,
01:17who became my friends of work, my friends of band,
01:20with whom I had the opportunity to launch many songs,
01:24to make many concerts, to turn around different countries and different places in the world.
01:28And I remember it with a lot of affection,
01:30I have a lot of gratitude and much affection to that time,
01:38and that moment in which we all started with Bonka.
01:40We were in the school, we were children, we were little children,
01:44we were in the school, we were in the school,
01:45we were writing songs to those situations that we were living in that moment.
01:49We were writing songs to our first love,
01:52our first tusses, our first tragas,
01:56our first problemones,
01:58to La Mona that we liked.
02:05I think we never were aware of what was happening with Bonka
02:12and the magnitude of what was happening with the band in that moment.
02:17I think that we were in a moment where we were thinking about
02:21to be very good, to reunite music,
02:25we didn't have expectations of fame and of becoming famous,
02:31because it really didn't start.
02:33We were more ready to conquer that girl that we liked,
02:38that we had to try, but we had to give the final project of the school,
02:41and we had to organize ourselves, because they had invited us from the school
02:45to play at the middle of the school, and we wanted to do it,
02:49so we looked at how we gave the permission to do it in the school,
02:52and we were thinking about things very different,
02:54and when we took so much strength,
02:57I think we didn't realize the magnitude of everything that was happening.
03:03Obviously, we were going to go a lot,
03:06but I think that it was also very pleasant and very calm.
03:10It was never that world of fame and all we were very happy
03:16and we were always very happy.
03:18We watched the songs on the emisoras and we would go to the car,
03:22and we would say, we were saying, we were singing,
03:24we were singing, we were singing the radio, we were singing,
03:25we were singing the songs and we couldn't believe it,
03:28and we were singing like,
03:29a little child of 16 years old,
03:32a lot of people are singing,
03:35and everyone is in the party with our songs.
03:38What was the reason why the band was so natural?
03:43There was a moment in which, in a very natural way,
03:47some of the band members started taking decisions
03:50and decided that they had different priorities in their life,
03:54and different projects and dreams.
03:56As we started in college,
03:58it was not something that I wanted to do,
04:01it was something that I wanted to do for everyone.
04:05Every one, as we grew up and advanced with Bonka,
04:11there were many who said, I want to do something different,
04:13I also have other dreams, I also have other goals,
04:15I also have other goals, other things to accomplish,
04:17and of a very natural way,
04:18every one took the decision to go out.
04:21And Bonka, we started being five,
04:23we ended up being two,
04:25and at the end, I duré being Bonka
04:28for a whole year as a solista,
04:31but I kept using the name of Bonka,
04:33because I knew that I had my music behind.
04:35And it was in the last year,
04:37when I said, well,
04:39I think I have to be able to close chapters,
04:42I think I have to give space to new challenges.
04:45I was absolutely sure
04:47that the music was what I wanted to do in my life,
04:49that I wanted to be an artist,
04:52that I wanted to be an artist.
05:01What was the beginning of the world?
05:05Many people say,
05:06that the tropipop is over,
05:07and what happened with the tropipop?
05:09It was like,
05:09it was like,
05:10it was only lost and ended up the planet,
05:14and I feel that all the artists that we do and that we do,
05:18from tropipop,
05:18of some way,
05:19we followed with that.
05:20And the concerts,
05:21we followed,
05:22we followed,
05:23we followed,
05:23and the songs followed,
05:24and the release of them,
05:24they followed a different level from that moment where I was really very close and very strong.
05:33But the people still watching the songs and still having these songs as part of their life.
05:39And I am showing you that today I'm going to go to a concert,
05:42they've passed almost 20 years, the next year we've done 20 years of having launched the first song of Bonka.
05:48And today is the day where I'm surprised because not only the people continue to sing these songs
05:53of an impressive way, but I've had the opportunity to be with people who had not even born,
06:02young people, young people who have 18 years, 15 years, 16 years, 17 years,
06:08and I go to a concert and I go to a concert with these children,
06:12for me they are children, and that was the age in which I started.
06:16And I say, wow, that's crazy how the music is at the same time.
06:19So then I say, the Tropy Pop is too, it's not like that
06:22it's not like that it has disappeared, it's not like that it had gone,
06:24and it's a very important legacy.
06:29It's not like it's a secret that I'm zero of stereotypes,
06:34I'm zero of etiquettes, zero of smashing something with a genre.
06:40but you have seen my career and how I've explored so much in terms of sound,
06:45I love music, I'm in love with music, and I'm a fan, because before I was artist,
06:49and I'm a fan of many other artists, I'm a consumer of music and melómano a morir,
06:55and I like to hear many genres, depending on the mood, I hear music very different.
07:02You get to the platforms that I use to hear music and you can find a mezcolanza
07:09and an arroz con mango in everything I hear, and I say,
07:12this guy's like this guy, how he likes this guy, how he likes this guy,
07:15because I enjoy a lot of things, and so I try to be honest with what I do music,
07:20I like to explore, I like to fusion, I like to be very curious when I make music,
07:26and when I hear so much music, there is something that I have left of every genre, every thing.
07:34I think that you can see more, I think at the beginning, when I began to make music like this,
07:43when I started to make music like Las Rancheras and these fusiones,
07:44like a song that I made Me Hacé Falta Un Beso that I had 3 different genres,
07:48I had to make a song with Mike Bahia, I had to make a song with Pipe Bueno, I had
07:50to make a song with Siam,
07:50like that people saw that, like, this man is doing what is so weird, three genres,
07:56three different artists, this guy was different, this guy was different, and it was a moment where people said,
08:02what is this, we don't understand, but this man is at the end, what is it?
08:06Is he rancheras, what is it that he did with Pipe, or he does urban, what is it that he
08:09did with Mike,
08:10or he does pop, what is it that he did with Siam, or he does tropipop, or what is it
08:14that he does, this guy has no identity.
08:21Obviously it's very difficult to be an artist and it's very difficult to make a career in many areas,
08:29not only in the music, but I think that there is where the secret is to be sure that what
08:35you're doing is doing,
08:36what you're doing is doing with all the conviction, with all the love and with all the passion of the
08:38world,
08:39because good comments will be there, bad comments will be there, and more when you do something that is so
08:45public,
08:45you know, you do this again, you release a song and people who the first one is,
08:49I like it or not, I like it, I like it, I like it or not, this artist does not,
08:52I like it, this artist does not much,
08:54so now you go to one, when you see opinions, if one is leaving what people say, and one of
09:00them is saying,
09:00and one day one happens, and one happens that one, that there is a lot of people who don't like
09:02the song of one,
09:03and just that one happens to that one, and one happens to that one, that is a mistake,
09:07this one's gonna work, this one's gonna work, better, let's go and let's go.
09:15Lo siento que dentro de tantos años
09:18uno también va cogiendo un poquito de callo ante las críticas.
09:21Al principio, cuando uno es más chiquito,
09:24cuando están pensando cómo recibir tantas críticas,
09:26de pronto se las toma más personal y lo afectan a uno más.
09:30A medida que tú vas creciendo
09:30como que vas cogiendo un poquito más de fuerza, más de coraza
09:33y vas entendiendo que, al final también, lo que te decía,
09:36las críticas también forman y son bienvenidas.
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