Depedro, stage name of Jairo Zavala (Madrid, 1973), began in music influenced by the habaneras that, as a child, he heard his grandparents sing. They were also the ones who gave him the guitar with which the neighborhood boy began to make his way in music, many years before touring the five continents. “I still have a hard time developing my career. I haven’t gotten anywhere yet. I don’t want to get there,” he reflects from the wooden cabin where he composes his songs. “The immediacy that prevails today is a path to frustration and not giving value to what we do. If as a musician you fill large venues in one year, you don’t have the opportunity to process what that is and you lose along the way many experiences that build you as a person.”
In this new chapter of An intimate advicethe artist, who these months is immersed in the tour of his latest album A perfect place, reviews some of the defining moments of his personal and professional life, from the secrets of recording his first album in Arizona with the legendary American band Calexico to his humanitarian trip to Madagascar.
