About two weeks ago, I was reading something when they mentioned a group from Mexico releasing an album of cumbias featuring the sounds of different countries, or something like that. I am terrible at names, and I thought I read that the last name was Khan. I was wrong, it is Klan.
Well, the fact that I could not find him kept bothering me. Today, I found him.
Los Ángeles Azules, Santa Fe Klan, Cazzu – Tú y Tú (Video Oficial)
The young man has a fascinating background.
Without mincing words, Angel Jair Quezada, his birth name, says that creating in sobriety “cost him a little more”, since “sometimes alcohol or drugs make feelings flow more or say things that one does not dare to say”.
Although he assures that being clean allowed him to see a new version of himself, an Angel who sang differently, because he didn’t “have a hoarse voice” due to the effects of the smoke, to be aware of what he spent his money on and who he invited to be part of this project, which has more than six collaborations.
“Not even a puddle of alcohol fell in the studio, because there wasn’t any. I didn’t burn any couch, because there were no cigarettes, there was nothing to light”, he says about the production of this album in which the sonidero and his friends from Monterrey (north of Mexico) “kept him away from vice”, especially Javier López, with whom he sings the song ‘Bájate la falda’ (Lower your skirt).
The artist, who started in the world of music at the age of 13 with an egg carton studio in his neighborhood Santa Fe, looks at his body covered with tattoos -each one part of his story- and says: “There are times when the mind can be distracted by other things and I did it by recording a cumbia album”.
Click the image to go to YouTube and watch the video. The music is lively, and cumbia makes one want to move their legs and hips and dance.
