Andrés Cepeda is very clear about where his Mexican side comes from, despite being Colombian. His parents always listened to music by José Alfredo Jiménez, mariachi and Agustín Lara. That is without counting the countless movies and soap operas that came to his country in droves from Mexico.
“So there are some cultural codes that are very similar,” said the Bogota singer from his residence precisely located in the Colombian capital. “That is why there is so much interest from the Colombian to get together with this type of sounds that are not alien to us.”
Andrés, 48 years old, refers to the recent collaboration he made with Joss Favela, the singer-songwriter from Sinaloa who is a sensation with the guitar and with his romantic compositions. Andrés, who plays romantic pop music, fell in love with a Joss song that he heard from another performer.
“In my life, the relationship with Mexican music is long, “he said. “I have recorded two rancheras songs in my career, but it is the first time that I have dared to sing with a Mexican artist.”
So with those tables, he was encouraged to search through his label Joss, since they both work under the same label, and asked him not only to give him a song, but to record it with him. Joss did not think twice, he got on a plane and traveled to Bogotá to record the song and the video for “If everything is finished”, which to date already has more than three million views on YouTube.
For Andrés, this “experiment” was possible thanks to the fact that “the two universes can be found because they have something in common, which is romanticism.”
Joss, from 30 years, he talked from his home in Caetae, Sinaloa, and said that he wrote this song inspired by a romance that ended but marked him so much that instead of regretting the event, he decided to perpetuate it with a theme .
“I never forget it because it was an essential part of my life,” he said. “It was an important part and I am in love with what she was and what I was while I was with her.”
The song is part of Andrés’s next album –his fourth studio album–, which will be released next year. Half of the songs will have collaborations and the other half will be solo; One of those collaborations is with the Mexican singer Ximena Sariñana.
Far from thinking that the musical styles of both were not compatible, the Colombian artist is convinced that a balance was achieved between his romantic pop style and Joss’s “elegant” way of writing.
“When the pen is good, the genre does not matter,” said Andrés, who Next year he will begin an extensive tour of several countries, and in which, it is a fact, he will have Joss as a guest.