The Argentine artist Duki has assured that “people are very desperate to be known” and that “thinking about being famous” is not the path to success, as he added in a press conference on the occasion of the start of the European stage of ‘ADA Tour’, which begins this Saturday, June 8 at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium.
“People are very desperate to be known and thinking about being famous does not lead you to success. Thinking about writing lyrics that make the public jump in the clubs, thinking about ‘I’m going to get hit’, ‘I’m going to buy the chain and the car, it kills you. It eats your brain,” the artist explained and later acknowledged that he is “sensitive” and nervous about his concert this Saturday.
Furthermore, he has pointed out that competitiveness is “killing” the music industry and has stated that if all the artists release “ten songs a week”, after two years the music will be “fucked up”.
“It makes no sense to think about the top 1 on Spotify, that doesn’t give legitimacy to your music. Your music isn’t going to be better or worse because it’s number 1. It’s a good thing that people like, but when everyone “We artists are worried about going to the studio and we are releasing 10 songs a week, we are killing music little by little. The industries, the brands, everyone is taking advantage and in two years we will have smoked the music,” he criticized.
In that sense, he has assured that “the new breeds” of artists like Quevedo, Tiago PZK or Milo J., who achieve success with a song, have “a lot of pressure” that can even lead to depression.
“How many artists have come out now that release two or three songs, that are super young, like Quevedo, Milo J. or Tiago PZK, and in one year they are playing for stadiums of 40 thousand people? They have millions of visits and they don’t have It’s easy for them. They don’t say that it’s great or that their life is back on track. Most of them have to endure pressure, they have depression…” said Duki.
THE ONLY ARGENTINE ARTIST WHO HAS ‘SOLD EVERYTHING’ AT THE BERNABÉU
The ‘Malbec’ singer, whose real name is Mauro Ezequiel Lombardo Quiroga, became the only Argentine artist to have hung the ‘all sold out’ sign in the Madrid stadium, selling out all 65,000 tickets six months before the performance.
“I don’t consider myself ‘mainstream’. Yes, I have a lot of people who follow me, and maybe if someone does a Bernabéu they have to be ‘mainstream’ because of the number of people who go. At least in my songs, I try to speak from a different perspective… And if there is something I enjoy, it is that my listeners feel identified with what I sing and what I do,” said the singer, who has also acknowledged being aware of the “milestone” that this concert represents for he.
“MY SPANISH AUDIENCE HAS TAUGHT ARGENTINE TRAITS”
Duki, who feels very linked to ‘trap’ and Spanish rap and who has collaborated with national artists such as Dano, Omar Montes, Rels B or Quevedo, considers that his audience in Spain has “grabbed” Argentine traits, such as the way of living. the live ones with “the passion” that characterizes a place “as far away” as Argentina.
“The urban genre in Spain has always been very enriching. We know that they are samurai fathers of Spanish-speaking rap. For Argentina it has always been a point of inspiration and learning. For Spanish rappers and trappers, I must know more than half and I listen to their It was always that, we feed a lot on the urban scene in Spain and today I feel that there is more unity than before (…) There are many resources, both audiovisual and musical or production, the artistic here in Spain, flies up. another level,” he highlighted.
PROUD ARGENTINE
During the press conference, Duki was moved on several occasions and stressed that “being able to carry the flag” of Argentina around the world gives him the opportunity to show “that anyone can do it.”
“The Argentinian in the world goes out to fight, fights and resolves very well. We have that decisive capacity. It is to continue raising the flag. We come from Argentina, which is supposedly the third world, the end of the world, where there are supposedly much fewer possibilities than in the rest of the places. We know that it always affected, whether on an economic level, globalization. There everything came five years later, when everyone here had audio cards and it was super difficult to get it. 2017, 2018, it was not something so normal. Going outside is raising the flag and saying I can do it,” explained the artist, who shed tears when his mother, Sandra, participated in the presentation.
His European tour continues through Milan, Paris, Berlin and London, and the artist, who has hinted that a new album will arrive this year, will end 2024 starring at the Buenos Aires Trap Festival.
“What brought me here is my people, my relationship with the public. I am still the same person I was, I am the freest person in the world. People feel involved in what happens to me, because they have accompanied me since I started,” he thanked.