There is a quintet in front Las Meninas. In the middle, Resident. Her voice bounces off the canvases of the most important room in the building. Prado Museum in Madrid. “I want your chest to be my bed,” she begins to sing among four dancers dressed in delicate white and blindfolded. This is how the new video clip by the Puerto Rican artist begins.
“A hymn to the beauty of the ephemeral in the face of the immortality of art,” reads a publication from the Prado Museum. The institution has given up two of its most symbolic spaces, the Sala 12 and the Central Gallerywho was head of Calle 13 and the Spanish Silvia Perez Cruz so that they can recite, raw, a cappella and at the mercy of the silence inherent to the museum rooms, 313.
The first version of 313 It also had the participation of Penelope Cruz. That video clip, also cared for and produced with care, accumulated seven million views on YouTube.
This time, the voice of Resident is combined with a coro vocal soaked in emotion and feeling and surrounded by the paintings that make up the Velázquez room. Furthermore, the violin Naomi Gasparini accompanies the voice of Silvia Perez Cruz in this particular piece of music, intimate and delicate, in front of The adoration of the magias indicated by the museum.
Following its latest release, The letters don’t matter anymoreResidente confessed in March in an interview with EL MUNDO that he did not rule out pressing the button stop in his musical career. In practice, the rapper not only has not abandoned ship but has crossed a barriersince it is not common to look into these hallways with music video clips.