Mau y Ricky chatted with Billboard’s Jessica Roiz on the red carpet of the 2024 Latin Grammys.
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00:00We are here at the 2024 Latin Grammys with Mau and Ricky, three-time nominees,
00:05including your album Hotel Caracas, one of our favorites at Billboard. Tell us about this nomination.
00:10We're so excited. We're so proud of these three nominations. We're proud of this album. We're
00:16proud of this work. Hopefully it comes back home with us, the award tonight, but if not,
00:20we're already very proud of the work that we've done, what this represents for our career and
00:25what it represents for our country. So yeah, hopefully we can take it. It'd be a lie to tell
00:31you that I don't want to win it. I definitely do want to win it. Yeah, it'd be amazing.
00:44That is an even song of the year there with Elena Rose. I think that's incredible. Like,
00:48how do you guys feel when you saw that? It was like almost all your colleagues, honestly.
00:52La verdad, it feels beautiful. I feel like there is something happening in the Latin,
00:56sorry, in the Venezuelan, I guess, movement, right? And that is exciting to be a part of.
01:03I believe that Venezuela has always had extremely talented musicians. And I think that being a part
01:10of this generation and what's happening is something that means a lot. And I think it's
01:15just the beginning. This year, it was a lot of us, but I believe that next year and each year
01:19is going to be a lot more. All right. So I need to know about this Hotel Caracas era with,
01:24you know, when are we, you know, what's next? What follows? I mean, next year,
01:28are we still going to have the suits? I need to know. So we're going to have,
01:31we're going to have Livelulas, which is a song that's coming out today. It's kind of in the
01:35same universe. We're going to announce our tour next week. So we're going to continue this Hotel
01:39Caracas era for a minute, and then we'll be back. Probably going to be wearing the suits in the
01:44concerts and in red carpets and stuff. We might start changing it up starting next year. But we
01:49wanted to, yeah, we wanted to kind of like, we'll see, we'll leave it as a trademark. And once that
01:55I started seeing or hearing people say like, oh, Maui Ricky, the guys with the suits, you know,
01:59since I was in some, since I'm hearing that already, I'm like, maybe it's time to just use
02:03it in the shows and start changing it up. So we actually just did a list of like for Halloween,
02:07of Halloween costumes. And I was like, we need Maui Ricky in their Hotel Caracas era. That is,
02:14I can't. Something so many people dressed up like this. It's easy. All you got to do is wear
02:18suit with a tie and with shorts and some converse and you're ready. Exactly. And the mustache.
02:25Thank you. Love seeing you. Billboard, we love you. Of course. Billboard,
02:29we're Maui Ricky. We love you guys. Thanks so much.