▲ Surrounded by paintings by Velázquez, Rubens and Bosch, the Puerto Rican rapper Residente and the Spanish singer Sivia Pérez dedicated the song to Noemí Gasparini, who died in 2022 and sister of the violinist Violeta Gasparini, who also appears in the video clip.Photo courtesy of the Prado Museum
Madrid. The Puerto Rican rapper Residente, the Spanish singer-songwriter Silvia Pérez Cruz and the Italian-Mexican violinist Noemí Gasparini went to the Prado Museum to surround themselves with the canvases of Velázquez, Rubens or Hieronymus Bosch and sing the single 313which was written by the former vocalist of Calle 13 in memory of his muse Violeta Gasparini (sister of the violinist), who died unexpectedly in 2022. In the sequence of images and sounds, the sound of the violin is interspersed with the mourning voice of the singers, while fragments of Las Meninasof Velázquez, or of The adoration of the magithe Rubens. It is a hymn to the beauty of the ephemeral in the face of the immortality of art.
summarized from the Prado Museum to celebrate this conjunction.
The story of Residente’s latest single, 313which is part of their album The letters don’t matter anymore, refers, according to the rapper himself, to when We discover ourselves as a single person, like the sun discovers the mornings by instinct.
. Those verses had been haunting his mind since the death of his friend and muse Violeta Gasparini, a violinist with Italian and Mexican roots who committed suicide in 2022. Her death shook the singer, who sought, through poetry, to understand her absence and remember her mark. , hence in the song dedicated to him he says: I want your chest to be my bed, your hands and your legs to be my branches. The beach that is backed by the hair of your waves with the sand of your back
. Or when he claims that The directions are directed, in the look of your eyes because they never end. You open them and I crash. The clouds break, the flashes shoot and I traveled when they saw me because they are like the heavens that opened
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The Prado Museum opened its galleries and halls for the Puerto Rican rapper to record, on March 15, a video of that song, accompanied by the singer Silvia Pérez Cruz and Valentina’s sister, Noemí Gasparini, who is also a violinist. The recording was made in the Central Gallery and room 12 of the art gallery, which served as the stage to cover Residente’s verses. The emotion and feeling of the composition are intensified by the vocal choir of four women who accompany the artist while he recites in the room dedicated to the painter Velázquez and before The adoration of the wise men, the Rubens.
The emotion deepens when it is heard, along with the violin and the pictorial canvases: You are a single bird. You shoot like a gun. You are one of those who dared like all the lips that my kisses knew… When I feel the afternoons approaching. I wish the endings would forget to end. And I don’t want it to end. You are so much that you don’t fit. And I don’t want it to end (and I don’t want it to end)
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When he released his new album, Residente explained that, since Valentina’s absence, I started seeing the number 313 everywhere: in hotel rooms, on the telephone, on clocks, in the microwave, in addresses, everywhere. I didn’t know that number 313 was connected to you. The song was born in an inexplicable, supernatural and magical way, inspired by my friend Valentina, a talented young woman who, although she is no longer physically here, is still here. It is a tribute to time and the things that we do not want to end.
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