Latin star Pedro Capó opens up about his latest album 'La Neta,' going on tour, life after the success of his track "Calma," new music and more!
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00:00 Out of the Blue, unexpectedly, wasn't supposed to be a single.
00:02 It wasn't written with that, you know, looking for that either.
00:06 That one was absolutely special.
00:08 Hi, I'm Pedro Capo and this is Billboard News.
00:11 Pedro Capo, welcome to Billboard News.
00:22 Thank you. Happy to be here. Happy to see you.
00:24 Thank you for having me.
00:24 Likewise. And now you're back with La Neta Tour.
00:28 This is the first tour since the onset of the pandemic for you.
00:31 Yeah, yeah. Happy, happy that we finally got here.
00:35 Tell us about that tour.
00:36 Yes. Well, we started in Spain.
00:39 We did four cities over there and it was a huge success.
00:42 Every city sold out. We're now going to Argentina, which they all sold out.
00:47 I feel like La Neta is that, you know, the little boat that could.
00:50 And then we go to Mexico and we're going to come to the States.
00:54 So we should be here in October. Very excited about that.
00:57 La Neta was a different, it is a different sound and I feel like it marks a road ahead for me.
01:03 And because sonically I was coming out of the whole Calma thing, which was beautiful, amazing.
01:09 Calma, you know, happened at such an interesting moment.
01:12 The pandemic came. I kind of got lost in my sound for a little bit, which is part of our process, I'd say.
01:19 And La Neta was something that I record and produce and write in its entirety in my house.
01:24 Very personal.
01:25 So you wrote it during the pandemic.
01:27 Yep. It's a pandemic album. It's a picture of everything that happened in those two years of my life.
01:34 And the best thing that happened was it pushing me to build a studio in my house and working from there.
01:40 And it has a certain sound.
01:42 I got to tell you, I love La Fiesta.
01:43 I love the lyrics and I love that you wrote it all on your own.
01:54 I love the whole wordplay in that song.
01:57 Oh, thank you.
01:57 Was that fun to write?
01:58 That was a lot of fun. A lot of fun.
02:00 I was in my backyard, "Un roncito y la guitarra" and I was like, you know, what's a fear that I feel, you know, that we can all relate to?
02:07 And the first thing I thought was death.
02:09 I think it's an important conversation to bring to the table.
02:11 You know, we're dying from the second we're born, but not to make it dark and morbid.
02:16 On the contrary, kind of be playful with it, humorously talking about, "I felt a pain. I looked online."
02:21 We know what happens when we look online, you know.
02:24 And I wanted to kind of, you know, play on that and also give a perspective of, you know, that final outcome of ours.
02:32 It's an invitation to enjoy what we have in the present moment.
02:35 And it's been for me.
02:36 And it was as therapeutic to me to write as, you know,
02:48 And "Devolver a casa" to me was as literal as coming back home after being on the road or
02:54 And as symbolic as coming back to your essence, to that, you know, safe place that we all have to express ourselves and heal vulnerably.
03:05 "Calma" is this humongous hit.
03:15 I believe it was maybe even the biggest song of the year.
03:19 And you get the biggest hit of your career.
03:21 Right.
03:22 Like "Out of the Blue."
03:23 Yeah, "Out of the Blue," unexpectedly, wasn't supposed to be a single.
03:26 Wasn't written with that, you know, looking for that either.
03:30 That one was absolutely special.
03:32 Thanks to Farruko, I mean, the whole combination of things, the timing, it just worked out amazingly.
03:38 But it was very new to me.
03:40 I, you know, I thought I was at the place that I got to, you know, as a writer and I was happy with that.
03:46 Completely caught me off guard.
03:47 I was 38 and started, you know, traveling the world and then a sudden stop because of the whole pandemic.
03:53 Yes.
03:54 And so you come from that global success so big and then there's a pandemic.
04:00 Yeah.
04:01 Ita Toka.
04:02 And you have to like...
04:03 Back to one.
04:04 Back to... Did you feel that way?
04:06 Did at one point you wake up and say, "This sucks"?
04:09 Right. You know, it was very important too because I feel like I was starting to fall into the trap of chasing a calma moment.
04:17 And as a songwriter and creative, it was affecting me.
04:20 That silence was necessary for me to kind of come back to my roots.
04:25 What would have been of Pedro without that in the middle?
04:27 Where were you going naturally, creative?
04:29 And that's what "La Neta" has been for me.
04:32 And what's coming, I just, I spent about a month just locked myself in Nashville.
04:38 And we put forth a great number of songs that should be coming out at the end of the year.
04:42 So all your lyrics in Spanish, Pedro, this kind of rich fusion of music.
04:46 Yeah, there's a little bit of country.
04:48 There's a little bit of what I, you know, unavoidably bring to the table and very happy.
04:53 I think it's going to be a special one.
04:54 (upbeat music)