“Dónde Estás” is Ivan Cornejo’s latest hit, which has been streamed over 21 million times on Spotify to date! The single is produced by Frank Rio and the emerging singer-songwriter himself. On today’s episode of Verified, watch Ivan perform his hit ballad with his guitar and find out the meaning behind the hit song.
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00:00 I started playing the guitar around seven years old.
00:02 I was writing songs like 14 years old.
00:05 I had already started doing covers on TikTok
00:08 and I would look at comments and they'd all say like,
00:11 does he have music?
00:12 And I think that just clicked.
00:14 Kind of wanted people to just feel like, you know,
00:23 they're shutting off from the world
00:25 and just entering their, you know, imagination.
00:29 Like you're closing your eyes, you're closing your door,
00:32 turning off the lights, you're in complete darkness.
00:35 [whooshing]
00:36 [gentle music]
00:37 [singing in foreign language]
00:41 I tried to paint the picture that you're in space
01:02 and you're an astronaut.
01:05 And the "Mi Estrella" part is kind of influenced by J. Cole
01:09 when he said, "You're not the type
01:11 that snorts the white lines.
01:12 I mean, the one that lights the night times."
01:15 I'm a big J. Cole fan.
01:16 [laughing]
01:18 [singing in foreign language]
01:23 [singing in foreign language]
01:27 [singing in foreign language]
01:30 [singing in foreign language]
02:00 There's always those couples.
02:02 The ones that break up tend to be the ones that,
02:04 you know, you're the most stubborn.
02:05 An argument between two stubborn people is like a war zone.
02:09 And me personally, I'm not a stubborn person.
02:12 I'm very understanding.
02:14 [singing in foreign language]
02:20 [singing in foreign language]
02:24 After a breakup, I feel like everybody tries
02:38 to fill the void by going out and just dating newer people
02:43 and just more people.
02:45 But I feel like the only person
02:46 who could fill the void is yourself.
02:49 [record scratching]
02:51 [singing in foreign language]
02:56 [singing in foreign language]
02:59 [singing in foreign language]
03:03 I think what inspired this chorus,
03:29 I just wanted it to feel strong vocally.
03:32 That's why it's like the climax of the song
03:34 and lyrically too.
03:36 I think it's something you say when you're in your,
03:39 like the worst times of the breakup.
03:41 So I felt like it connected well with the chorus.
03:45 [singing in foreign language]
03:52 [singing in foreign language]
03:55 If you're going through a breakup and you start drinking,
04:07 it's not really gonna help.
04:08 It only enhances your emotions
04:11 and makes it feel 10 times worse than it really is.
04:14 [air whooshing]
04:15 [singing in foreign language]
04:19 [singing in foreign language]
04:23 When I wrote this part, I wanted to add it in there
04:38 just as a like reminder that we all need therapy.
04:40 [air whooshing]
04:42 [singing in foreign language]
04:46 [singing in foreign language]
04:50 I think with the outro,
05:02 I just wanted to kind of show that, you know,
05:05 the anxiousness of just wanting to go literally find them
05:09 and just go see them.
05:10 But with a bit of like just giving up towards the end,
05:14 you know, like, [speaking in foreign language]
05:16 wherever you are, I hope you're okay.
05:18 [air whooshing]
05:20 The first song that I wrote,
05:23 I think I was talking about school.
05:25 It's almost like a [speaking in foreign language]
05:26 about myself.
05:27 [laughing]
05:28 But yeah, that's never coming out.