Journalist: What happens to you when you see that a young man like you perhaps saw now at Lollapalooza watches your videos and uploads the challenges to TikTok?
Emanero: I think it’s nice, it also makes me proud from time to time. It’s a little unreal so much evolution of information that comes to you from people who are enjoying what you do. But hey, it also sets the tone for you that somehow you are on the right path.
Q: The reversal of “A Puro Dolor” came out. How did that get together and how did they come to do an international collaboration?
AND: The first thing that happened was like a fantasy of humming the song and saying hey, what if we do it because it’s so good? I’m thirty-six and I remember in 2001 that song didn’t stop playing everywhere. And at first it sounded like a hum, like saying Wow, this song is great. And why don’t we try to do it? And we contacted Ángel López, who is the original singer of the song, and he said yes. And well, then it started to grow. I told Rusher, “Che Rusher, you’re here to do it with me,” because I knew the intro was going to be beautiful. And the chorus too. So, nothing, it was like a dream, until suddenly we were filming it and we were releasing it.
Q: Would you do a song with Lali?
AND: Yes, definitely. With Lali, definitely. He is an artist that I admire a lot on and off stage. I had never seen her live. Yes, I had seen videos of her, but I had never seen her in person live and I saw her last year. I think it was last year at El Luna Park and she totally blew me away. She couldn’t believe what she was seeing. The artistic level that she and her entire team manage seemed incredible to me. And yes, she is always a person with whom I have the dream of sharing at some point.
Q: What is the worst and best anecdote you have experienced at a festival as an audience or as an artist?
AND: The worst anecdote many years ago, in 2007, at a festival that I had to open at the Morón stadium, being there, having a climate similar to what there was these days and having a lot of mud and ending up muddy up to the top of the sneaker and be there before going out to play, because I had to go out to open. Before going out to play, I was removing the mud from his shoes so as not to get up so muddy and two minutes before going up to sing at that same festival. Then I went out on stage and there I had my best experience, like that duality of waiting behind the mud from two in the afternoon until nine at night to be able to get up to sing, clean the mud shoes and then get up and see all that mass of people there, like I experienced the best and the worst, very quickly. The live shows part is a part that I like. I really like preparing shows, knowing what I’m going to do from start to finish, thinking about ideas, all of that is what I really like.
After selling out the Vorterix Theater and filling Niceto, The artist takes a step forward with his first concert at the emblematic Luna Park stadium, where he will play for the first time this Thursday and Friday. A milestone that accompanies its great growth in recent years, backed by recent successes and the honor of opening María Becerra’s shows in River.
