After years and years of chipping away at stone, Lasso can finally say that all his hard work is paying off.
The Venezuelan singer-songwriter based in Mexico continues to celebrate that “Brown Eyes” his first hit, exceeded 200 million listeners on Spotify. The song is already a global hit and the spearhead of “Eva”, the album that the artist will release this week.
“[Es] an alternative song and without collaborations, ”he said. “That is not something that happens a lot in the current Latino world scene […] I am very honored and happy to be able to experience the first hit of my career.”
If you ask Lasso, he doesn’t know what the particularity of “Brown Eyes” is. Or rather, he knows that there was something in that song, something that caught people from the beginning, that they began to record themselves interpreting it, doing covers and covers and sharing it on social networks.
“It’s a song that talks about the eyes that most of the world has,” he said. “It’s also a nice way of saying, ‘I know most of us have brown eyes, which are also pretty eyes,’ and that connected with people. I saw it a lot on networks; people saying, ‘I’ve always wanted to have light brown eyes and this is the first time I’ve heard someone sing something cute about brown eyes.’”
The origin of the album “Eva”, however, was not so simple. Lasso had recorded the album but it had no title or concept. The songs were there, but there was no idea that encompassed it. That came at Sonic Ranch, the recording studios located in a charming Texas town where the singer produced the record.
There, he had a “kind of revelation” around Adam and Eve, two characters from the Christian tradition who, according to this story, were the first human beings to live on Earth. Lasso realized that many of the themes on his album had to do with religion. One day, she woke up and thought that since all the topics had to do with different parts of relationships, it would be nice to “make a kind of metaphor for a woman that represents all the relationships I’m having with her.”
“I said, ‘Well, why don’t I name her ‘Eve’ and write a song called ‘Eve,’ which according to theology was the first woman.” she said she. “I thought it was super cute, poetic and that’s how it stayed.”
Lasso, who has been making music professionally for ten years, believes that this record, more than a story of his personal life, is a reflection of his essence, and he hopes it will be one of many, because he dreams of having a long and productive career as a performer of pop music.
“I love what I do,” he said. “What I want is to reach my 60 years, be able to go on tour and continue living from music.”