Johann Vera lanza conmovedor nuevo sencillo “Closet”
Johann Vera lanza conmovedor nuevo sencillo “Closet”
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00:00Hi Johan, welcome to Pípola en Español, how are you?
00:08Very excited, thank you for this space, for this time.
00:12Pípola en Español, this is huge, thank you.
00:15It's great that you are here with us for the first time.
00:18Tell us a little bit about your career.
00:20We know that you were in the band.
00:22How was this experience and when did you decide that you wanted to be a singer,
00:27that this was your great passion?
00:29Well, it was the same program that helped me and sent me.
00:33I did Factor X when I was 11 years old in Colombia with Camilo and Greicy.
00:37I was a finalist with them.
00:39There I started, I am from Ecuador but I lived a long time in Colombia,
00:43so that's why I was in this program.
00:45They gave us a school to study acting, music, I started with all this
00:50and I fell in love with creating, with music, with dancing, with everything.
00:58When I graduated at 15, I decided to move here to the United States, to Miami.
01:02I started the process, literally, extra, back there, in the productions,
01:11little by little, climbing, you could say, until I started, I don't know,
01:17little steps in commercials, in series, in different things,
01:21until the opportunity of the band came.
01:24I was also one of the finalists and I didn't feel ready.
01:32I didn't feel ready to be a soloist and it was the same program that pushed me
01:37and told me, yes, you are ready.
01:40Ricky, Laura, Alejandro, were the ones who said,
01:45start your career as a soloist.
01:47Precisely speaking of Ricky Marte, we know that you met him.
01:51How was this friendship with him and what has he meant for your career now as a soloist?
01:56Well, he has always been a very big exponent for me,
01:59an example to follow in everything he has done.
02:04It's interesting because now I see what they basically compared us in the program.
02:10I also had to sing a song by him.
02:15And to this day I still receive comments about that presentation.
02:21I feel that Ricky also connected a lot at that time.
02:24I didn't understand either why.
02:27He was like 19 years old and it was until I was 22
02:32where I realized and got to know a little more about me.
02:38Well, and this week you are precisely releasing a music video.
02:42Tell us about this song called Closet.
02:44Precisely speaking of this topic, why is it so important to you
02:47and what does it mean for your career now?
02:51Closet is the most important song that I have released.
03:01I say 20-24, I didn't think it was necessary.
03:04I've been saying for many years, but why?
03:07This song shouldn't be something that influences or affects what I do artistically.
03:12In the end, it's just a small side of what one is.
03:16I'm from Ecuador, I'm in Ecuador right now.
03:19I saw a lot of people still very repressed by this topic.
03:24I live it with my family to this day.
03:27I'm releasing this song without counting most of the people in my family or everything.
03:33Because in the end you are still the same person, nothing changes.
03:38That's such a small side of what Johan Vera is.
03:43That it wasn't important, but it was important to make the statement.
03:48And that's what I'm going to do.
03:50This is it. I'm going to continue with my music and what I do.
03:55But I live that side of gossip, yellowism and all that.
03:59Trying to see it as something negative, when it's not at all.
04:03So I said, if they're going to make it look negative, no.
04:06They're not going to villainize my story or make it look bad.
04:13I'm talking about the media in Ecuador.
04:16I can't believe that in 2024 it's still considered an insult to say or see sexuality as an insult.
04:29And I said, well, there's still something to talk about and educate people.
04:32So if I have a voice and my way of communicating is through music, I'll do it through music.
04:40I didn't think about it in the song.
04:42It came up very organically.
04:44I wrote this song.
04:45It's crazy because I wrote it two years ago.
04:48I just realized because I was reviewing the videos I recorded the day I was in the studio.
04:53And I wasn't going to release it on the 22nd or 23rd.
04:56I was going to release it on the 16th or 15th.
04:59But things in life took a long time.
05:01Various things.
05:02The dates changed.
05:03And I realized that the day it's going to be released is the same day I wrote it two years ago, specifically.
05:12Yes, I understand perfectly.
05:14And well, talking about music, you promote your song Cielo, which is great.
05:20Could you tell us a little bit about the song?
05:23How did this song come about?
05:24What is the message you want to carry through your music and your art?
05:29Yes, of course.
05:30Well, Cielo is...
05:34Everything is connected.
05:37This is part of an album called Nada Importa En Verdad, which is also the theme through everything.
05:42In truth, nothing is so deep.
05:44In the end, life goes on and you continue.
05:47And the problems you feel, time helps you, it happens.
05:50And you continue.
05:52And that was what I had to understand.
05:55So through this EP and this album, as I come from this musical theater background,
06:00I tell it through this, which is very visual.
06:04Cielo is the first song where it shows a very in love Johan at this stage,
06:09where he discovers this freedom and this enjoyment in this new thing.
06:17And it's not as I thought, it's much better.
06:20It's like that discovery of what it is to fall in love for real,
06:25of what it is to surrender to a relationship.
06:28And after that comes this part of accepting what is happening,
06:35of what it is, and saying, ok, let's continue with life.
06:42So that's why everything is very connected.
06:45That's why this album is so beautiful.
06:48It's very therapeutic, it's my story,
06:50it's a way of telling what has happened to me through these last three years,
06:57giving it to you.
07:00Well, congratulations on this great project.
07:03And to finish the interview, if you can,
07:05if you can make an invitation to all the friends of People in Spanish
07:08to follow your music and everything that comes out there.
07:11To all my People in Spanish people, Johan Beracá,
07:14I invite you to listen to my new song Closet,
07:17to listen to Cielo and to immerse yourself in this world of this album
07:22called Nada Importa en Verdad.
07:24Stay tuned, a lot of music, a lot of things to tell.
07:28And yes, there we are.
07:31Thank you for this space, People.
07:33Thank you for being able to talk about this topic.
07:35I send you a hug and a kiss.