MEXICO CITY.- Nicki Nicole goes into the cumbia with its most recent release Green eyes. “Cumbia has to be done from the heart, literally, with feeling,” she said in a recent video call interview.
Nicole’s story with this Colombian Afro-Caribbean gender, spread and adopted throughout the American continent, is long. Since she was a child in Rosario, the Argentine urban singer used to listen to it at her house, at parties and even on television.
“There was a program called Saturday Pasin “And they gave it every Saturday and the best cumbia bands came and sometimes they had bands compete,” she said. “I started listening to Los Ángeles Azules from a very young age because in Argentina they listen to a lot.”
Nicole marveled when, over the years, she collaborated with the Mexican cumbia group, with whom she performs. Another night.
“I’m not going to deny that I was nervous the first time I saw it because they don’t know, until I told them they didn’t know that they had been part of my childhood; it’s very crazy the twists and turns of life and being able to make a song with tremendous artists who have been part of my life,” he noted. “I really admire them a lot.”
Incursion into cumbia
For Green eyes, a song to shake off your spite by dancing, Nicole, who wrote part of the lyrics, teamed up with a proven composer and producer of cumbia and Latin tropical music, the Mexican Dágar Barrera. She also called on the Venezuelan Sara Schell to compose and had Tatool as producer.
“That’s something I wanted to get out, I really wanted to channel into music many things that were happening to me,” said Nicole, who recently went through a breakup with Peso Pluma, in which she shared her emotional state in real time with her friends. fans through their social networks.
“It was perfect for me to make a cumbia that you can dance, but you can also feel it, you can go through your emotions, but it is still something danceable and something to have fun with.”
For the video of Green eyesNicole wanted a retro style so she chose to film in super 8 format, similar to videos from the 1990s. Nicole sings dressed in red and white surrounded by carnations and crimson roses. She says that flowers reflect passion.
He defined the style of this song as a Santa Fe cumbia (from Santa Fe Argentina) with a touch of nostalgia.
Nicole pointed out that for now it will be the only cumbia on her next album, but that it will not be her last song with something of this genre after having collaborated on a song by Grupo Frontera, the northern Mexican group, supported by Barrera, who has stood out in the popularity lists with cumbias like It doesn’t go away (live).
“We laugh a lot,” he said of his time with Payo, Frontera’s frontman.
His work
Nicole, who has a privileged voice as confirmed by her acoustic versions, said she was pleased with the evolution in her style to be able to interpret genres such as cumbia.
“I feel that on a vocal level from 2019 until now I have taken my voice out a lot, I have been working on it enough to be able to release it much more, I used to have a much more nasal voice,” he said. “I was able to bring out my voice more and I feel that in this cumbia it shows a lot and I like that too.”
Nicole’s fans will soon be able to see the songs from her most recent album live Alma at the Tecate Emblema festival in Mexico City and at the Concert Music Festival in Spain. For the second half of the year, he will be on tour in the United States, on his first solo tour with stops in New York, Houston, Dallas, Miami, Chicago, San Diego and Los Angeles.
“I try not to have expectations, but I have high expectations because the truth is that the tour is a great achievement, from Argentina, from Rosario, to reach the United States with my music,” he said.
Nicole has previously performed at festivals such as Coachella, but this is her first concert series as a headliner at American venues. She wants to live the full experience, traveling by bus the old-fashioned way.
“Let’s live it like a rockstar,” he said smiling. “With my band everyone is there playing cards.”
FUENTE: AP
