San Juan, Oct 28 (EFE).- Puerto Rican musician Francisco Rosado, known as “Pirulo”, launches this Friday his fourth album, “Calle Linda 4: Salsa y Saoco”, in which he includes urban rhythms with his salsa essence in an album of 21 songs, 5 of them with an urban version and another in salsa.
“Five of those songs have a version in reggaeton, or an urban version, and their salsa version as if to say: ‘look how I turn it to one side and the other,'” highlighted the singer and timbalero of his orchestra, Pirulo y La Tribu, in a telephone interview with EFE.
The five songs that have a double musical version are “Salsa y Saoco”, “Mi Locura”, “Amaneciito”, “Swing” and “Naranjiti”.
URBAN MUSIC ALLOWS YOU TO LET DOWN
The artist became known internationally for his song “Loco, pero feliz”, but now for his new production he is betting on the urban genre, although this is not new in his professional career due to his past collaborations with prominent reggaeton artists Tego Calderón and Julio Voltio, now pastor Julio Ramos.
“The urban area allows me to let off steam and make other music with other colors, offer a little more than what Pirulo is,” deepened the Puerto Rican, who also highlighted that the song “Mi Locura” is included in this album, a continuation the song that launched him to fame.
HE DOESN’T WANT A CURE FOR HIS INSANE
“We are all a little crazy. And if I found the recipe to cure that madness, I don’t want it, leave me crazy, leave me crazy so I’m happy,” stressed Pirulo, known for his long braids and a graduate of the Free School of Music Ernesto Ramos Antonini of San Juan.
Likewise, within this new album he highlighted the theme of “Guillao” that “has an urban influence of Afro beat, with that African trend, modern, with a very particular and very festive and happy sound, a strong theme.”
Two of the video clips for the new album were recorded in the Colombian city of Cali because of “the passion for salsa” that the people of Cali have, while the videos for “Guillao” and “Amaneciito” were filmed in Puerto Rico, in the municipality of Loíza (northeast) and Canovanas (north), respectively.
YOUR MUSIC MUST HAVE AUTHENTICITY
The interpreter of other well-known songs such as “La vida se me vablan”, “Let them talk about me” or “Como mi salsa no”, explained that the song “Guillao” reflects on highlighting the positive over the negative that happens in the daily life, especially in Puerto Rico.
In this context, the Puerto Rican said that his music “has to have authenticity and desire for people to like it.”
“This album has a very special energy, very fresh, very cool and very beautiful”, said the also creator of his albums “Calle Linda”, “Calle Linda 2” and “Calle Linda 3”.
The musician is now preparing to promote his new record production and visit other countries.
At the moment, his performance in Mexico on November 25 is confirmed.
“I am crazy to go to Europe, I have many fans in Spain, in Italy,” he said.
NEXT PROJECT WITH DON OMAR AND JERRY RIVERA
Pirulo also announced his participation in a musical project with Don Omar, self-styled “The King” of reggaeton, and the salsero Jerry Rivera.
Regarding his professional future, he indicated that he would like to enter the cinematographic world and capture his life in a film.
Before delving into salsa, Pirulo worked with prominent rappers Tego Calderón, Voltio and the duo of Jowell and Randy, whose influences he transfers to the album “Calle Linda”.
Rosado began in the urban genre when he composed and produced most of the songs on Tego Calderón’s album “El abayarde contraataca” (2007).
Among the songs on which he worked on that album, “What’s done is done”, “Tú pa’ mí”, “Venganza” and “Por mi madre” stand out.
He was also the musical director of the documentary “Voltio, live from the White Bear”, where a group of prisoners from “Block 352” of that now defunct penitentiary in San Juan recount their experiences.
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Puerto Rican musician Pirulo mixes urban rhythms and salsa on his new album