The artist Becky G is one of the great Latin voices of recent years. with your song Without Pajamas It revolutionized the charts and has not stopped leading them since. However, recently it was fulfilled the tenth anniversary of his first hit Singing in the shower, which launched his career in the United States. To remember her beginnings and present her latest songs, the singer has visited The Anthill this Wednesday, June 26.
Pablo Motos wanted to know what he would say to Becky G who started in the industry at 15 years old, knowing that she is now one of the biggest artists in Latin music. “I would tell her to enjoy her journey, that it won’t be easy, but that I feel very proud of her,” the interpreter responded. And after a lot of effort and many years fighting to have a place in the world, last year she was nominated for Best Original Song at the Oscarswhere he had the opportunity to sing his song The Fire Inside Me.
For the event, she wanted to have her roots during the performance, and took her to play with her. the Inglewood Orchestra, his hometown in California. “I felt the most empowered of all.” However, growing up in the United States of Mexican descent was not easy at all, as she has always had identity issues with her feeling of being Latino.
“It is the experience for many born in the United States, who are so proud of their Latin roots. But, I always wondered what it means to be Latin enough,” the singer confessed. And the thing is, until she learned to speak completely Spanish she felt like she was failing her roots. “I was embarrassed by my accentbecause I speak Spanglish,” he told Pablo Motos.
And she has confessed that it has been difficult for her to feel comfortable speaking in Spanish, “it has been many years until I I was able to feel comfortable speaking without a translator”, he explained to the presenter. Since for a time she had to do the interviews with the support of a translator next to her, something that frustrated her a lot and which she worked hard to correct.
However, this did not happen when he became an artist, since “singing in Spanish is much easier.” And she has explained that since she was little she has performed regional Mexican songs, which she learned from her family. This, she has always tried to instill what their origins are, but Becky G explains that today these are lived differently: “Previous generations are learning more and more that for us the most important thing is to have pride first. There are other things in our culture that show more of being Latino, “There are more things than language.”
The artist has confessed that what she is most proud of being Mexican “is my passion and my way of working, which I learned from my grandparents.” And Rebbeca Marie Gomez, as she is originally called, has been fighting for her dream since she was very young, and Today he fills stadiums thanks to his songs.
