Natti Natasha chatted with Billboard’s Griselda Flores and Jessica Roiz ahead of Billboard Latin Women in Music 2025.
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00:00Hey, hey, hey, that's Nati.
00:02It's like chatting.
00:03If it's not chatting, it's nothing.
00:05You always have to do something with something.
00:08How are you, Nati?
00:09Very good, you.
00:10And my number, you guys.
00:11Nati, how are you guys?
00:13We always have to do something with something.
00:15I see, I see.
00:15I always have to do something with something.
00:18But there's no problem.
00:19I feel very proud when I tell them.
00:21You look beautiful tonight.
00:23Thank you so much.
00:24How special is the Nati tonight,
00:26where we are giving you the Unstoppable Award?
00:29I mean, it's kind of crazy because you
00:33don't get to realize that people out there actually
00:37see the effort that you're making every time
00:40you're going through something.
00:41Every time you're super being very successful in music,
00:48and then you're not there.
00:49And then it's like, so understanding
00:51that throughout the years, people are living that with you
00:55makes me appreciate everything so much more.
00:58Like I've said before, I feel like you go growing with music,
01:01and I feel like people that are seeing you also, fans,
01:04they grow with you.
01:05And understanding that they're giving me this recognition
01:08is like a hug from everyone.
01:10So definitely, I feel like that represents us Latinas,
01:13like how much we work, how much we fight for what we want,
01:16and we make it happen.
01:17I also feel that this award is coming at a really important point in your career,
01:21and Amargue feels like a really big moment.
01:25I don't want to call it a comeback because you never really left the industry or even the stage,
01:30but does it feel like this really big moment in your career to you as well?
01:33It's like a different vibe, definitely.
01:35And I feel like it's because I definitely said this time I just wanted to be, to enjoy it.
01:40To me, I respect this project so much, not only because it's mine,
01:44but because it was written and produced by Romeo, which I'm a huge, I've always been a huge fan.
01:49Same.
01:49And he knows it.
01:50You know, I'm singing something from my country, from Dominican Republic.
01:55It feels very raw.
01:56It feels very real.
01:58And that's something that I needed also.
02:00So I definitely said that I just wanted to enjoy this moment and be present
02:04and not worry about the outside noise, which was going on a lot in my life.
02:08So it's like, I don't think I need that anymore.
02:10I want the good parts about it.
02:13And how impactful is it to silence those voices?
02:16How has that been life-changing for you?
02:18It's impactful in every single way in your life,
02:22just because sometimes you can lose yourself very easily, your essence,
02:28which is what people love to feel and love to hear and love to just get to know about you.
02:34And when you start worrying about like what you're supposed to be doing,
02:37how you're supposed to be looking, where you're supposed to be fitting in,
02:41then you lose who you are.
02:42And by that, then you lose what you're doing in music that represents you.
02:46Even if it sounds like anything else, but it still needs your essence, you know?
02:51Even if you want to go with the wave, it needs you.
02:54So it's very important for your mental health, for your family, for everything.
02:58I feel like it's the best.
03:02Definitivamente, solamente te digo que se noto definitivamente que te lo disfrutaste muchísimo
03:06ese proceso porque en amargue está buenísimo.
03:08No, sí. Thank you so much.
03:10De hecho, hablando de eso, Nati, de hecho, Nati, I mean, I know what en amargue means,
03:15pero para que el que no es dominicano, caribeño, what does Nati Natasha en amargue mean?
03:21¿A qué se debe el título?
03:22En amargue, cuando estamos hablando en amargue, usualmente la bachata es de música corta vena.
03:27O sea, cuando alguien lo dejó la novia o el novio, va para el colmado, el colmado donde tú compras cerveza o compras cositas allá en la república donde juegan dominó y ahí tú te juntas con los amigos, bebe, ya tú sabes, comienzas a cantar música de despecho.
03:42Pero también la bachata, como la tienda Natasha en amargue, ese álbum que tiene canciones de amor, pero son amores pasionales.
03:48Son que tú estás oficiada, que tú estás enamorada, entonces son como esas, como tú locas, tú sabes, yo te celo, pero no es formal, es para cuidarte de otras, son como que, son como que cositas muy reales que la bachata, así como el género urbano, te permite expresar, like, very raw, cosas muy, muy al grano, y para mí, eso es lo que me hace sentir también tan libre en el género de la bachata.
04:11I have to ask you before we let you go, obviously at the beginning of the month we had, you know, vimos la tragedia del jet set en República Dominicana, pero I want to ask you, ¿cuál es el legado que nos deja, you know, el merenguero Ruby Perez, que he's so iconic in the genre and in your country?
04:28Ruby Perez siempre ha hecho historia, Ruby Perez siempre acompañó a uno en todas las fiestas familiares, Ruby Perez siempre fue un, una figura de respeto, de creatividad, de alegría, donde sea que uno fuera como dominicano,
04:46era simplemente alguien que sabías, que no importa en qué lugar del mundo ibas, era alguien que te representaba y que aún así, y que aún te representa, así que,
04:56definitivamente ver que, que en el momento en el que se fue, al igual que las demás personas que estaban brindando alegría, que es lo que nos caracteriza a los dominicanos,
05:05es algo de mucho, de mucho respeto, así que definitivamente ha vivido con nosotros para siempre y siempre seguirá vivo en nuestros corazones.
05:14Nati, muchísimas felicidades, disfruta mucho esta noche, felicidades por este premio.
05:20Muchas gracias.
05:20Have so much fun.
05:21You guys look beautiful, by the way.
05:22Thank you so much.