The members of Camilo Séptimo love to surprise their followers with the content of their videos, just as they did with “Inevitable”, where they portray the drama of a couple united by love toxic.
“Although the lyrics are romantic, we like to capture that contrast”, said Érik Vázquez, guitarist of the combo founded in the State of Mexico. “People can adopt it and dedicate it to whoever they want, and that’s when the song gets richer.”
This song, whose video already has more than a million views on YouTube , is part of “Ecos”, the album that this pop rock group is preparing and that will be released at the end of May or beginning of June.
The song has an eighties touch that Érik says is part of the many influences that the band has, formed as such eight years ago, but with a musical history that goes beyond when this group he finally began to reap the fruits he sowed more than a decade ago.
“My mother and my aunts listened to that music,” said the artist. “And although I was very young, without being consciously, you are forming your musical tastes.”
But before this eighties stage, the group had an older band, the one that inspired the name of the band.
“When we started we had a sound that was more folk, more classic”, he said. “And he told me, ‘your project sounds like Camilo Sesto to me,’ and Coe he said, ‘Ah, we’re going to call ourselves Camilo Séptimo’; it vibrated us and we left them there”.
Before being Camilo, the group had a precedent, Lady Lane, a group that began to play in Mexico but due to problems among its members it disintegrated. However, Érik and Coe, far from throwing in the towel, formed another group –Camilo Séptimo– with which they finally managed to be recognized.
Currently the group is touring various cities Mexican, but in the summer he will come to the United States to appear in various venues alongside the Chilean Francisca Valenzuela, in New York they will be on 24 July, at the Gramercy Theatre. He will then return to Mexico City to offer a show in October at the coveted Palacio de los Deportes.
Érik, who left his career as an industrial engineer to dedicate himself to music, says that the sacrifice of so many years was worth it.
“I liked my job, but I was always thinking about the music,” he said. “Definitely my career [de ingeniero] was not my passion.”