The Kanka returned from retirement in style after giving a moving concert at the CDMX: “I’m in music”

With only a red chair, a borrowed guitar and a microphone, Juan Gómez – better known as El Kanka- got his fans singing and having a good time in Mexico City when the February 15 at the Forum del Tejedor.

And it is that, after a brief retirement, the man from Malaga decided to return to the stage and began an international tour with his new album entitled the things of the livingwhich has 14 unreleased songs and many cross feelings.

He was in interview for GlobeLiveMedia Mexico where El Kanka talked a bit about how, after announcing a hiatus in 2021, it is now back with very authentic content and a jovial tune that transcends continents.

“It’s hard for me to stop like everyone else and I’m also a Freudian book neurotic and my head never stops and I’m driving like everyone else, but in this break something is happened because I remember that at the beginning when I stop I say: ‘I’m going to see if I’m composing, if I’m learning English, if I’m doing sports’, I stopped a bit and I said: ‘I want to see what happens with nothing, but I devoted myself a little to reading, to cooking, to being with my family, with my friends, I did not have a plan, if one day I I’ve already done everything I have to do and I wanted to see what would happen to me with that.”he said.

The artist reflected on this hectic world, where the excess of information and the constant use of mobile phones have gradually alienated us from our nature and contributed to affecting the mental health of thousands of people in their daily lives. However, music was for him something therapeutic, escapist and encounter with his own person:

“Music, to me, is therapeutic and I found something completely absorbing. I don’t know if I’m into music, I’m into music. But it happens to me with a lot of things, love, how I feel about my partner or how I feel about my family or my friends. One of my favorite things is cooking and eating, reading makes me feel alive, in the end life is in the little things. It makes me feel like we’re less important than we think,” he said.

It took El Kanka five years to compose the songs that make up his new musical production and, refreshingly, the artist and his musicians recorded this album in a fairly classic way, as they all came together to play and share their proposals. on each of the themes.

“I compose because I compose, before thinking that I was going to record an album that I was already composing, I liked to express myself through songs“, assured the Malagan.

In the Roma district, almost hidden on the top floor of a famous bookstore, is the Weavers’ Forum, where around five o’clock last Wednesday afternoon, The Kanka took the stage with the charisma that characterizes it, to make his subscribers have a good time.

So, with a full siege, the Malaga man started with the something, a song from his new album and little by little he was creating an ideal, romantic and somewhat nostalgic atmosphere.

The singer-songwriter thrilled his fans with other tunes like Youtuber, Self-Portrait, Farewell Song there Come live with me. In addition, a single that was not missing was To live, a melody that El Kanka recorded with the Mexican Silvana Estrada.

“She came to my house one day, we had mezcals with her and we were singing new songs that they had not been taken out of my file and his file. And I remember it in a super beautiful way, with her she is a charming girl, apart from that she is divine”, confided the artist to GlobeLiveMedia a few hours before his presentation.

About this moment, the singer recalled that the performer of hits like Map oh I am looking at you He was moved when his friend showed him this song and, thanks to this moment, one of the most important collaborations on the record took place.

returning to showcaseEl Kanka also made his audience whistle, clap and stomp with other of his famous songs such as You don’t say luck, Fly there Because of your smell

Moreover, after announcing that the concert was coming to an end, his Mexican fans clamored for more and the man from Malaga pleased them with Cinnamon stick and an endearing collaboration with El David Aguilar.

“Here (in Mexico) you are crazy, there is a passion, the desire for music is noticeable, that we come and sing and it is very appreciated because these trips are tiring (…) but the affection of the people is worth it, it is something very special”, had precisely predicted El Kanka before his presentation.