{"id":2066,"date":"2024-10-16T21:20:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T01:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/?p=1235803441"},"modified":"2024-10-16T21:39:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T01:39:50","slug":"j-balvin-opens-up-about-latin-culture-resilience-at-latin-music-week-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jconeloverlaradiodelamor.com\/www\/2024\/10\/16\/j-balvin-opens-up-about-latin-culture-resilience-at-latin-music-week-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"J Balvin Opens Up About Latin Culture & Resilience at Latin Music Week 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

J Balvin<\/a>, Billboard<\/em>\u2018s current cover star<\/a>, spoke with\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u2018s chief content officer Leila Cobo for a Superstar Q&A on Wednesday (Oct. 16) during\u00a0Billboard Latin\u00a0Music Week 2024<\/a>. He spoke about his vision on the future of reggaeton, the power of collaborations and the importance of mutual support in difficult times.<\/p>\n

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nnnnnnn Here are the best ten quotes from the Colombian superstar:<\/p>\n

nnnnn About A Great Day With J Balvin<\/em>: <\/strong>\u201c[The series] is really about sharing with artists, public figures, and getting them out of their comfort zone. Talking about topics that normally no artist talks about\u2014 their fears, their concerns. I don\u2019t know how I did it, but I managed to get a lot of information out of them about their spiritual and mental health situations. With Jimmy Butler, Demi Lovato, Anitta and Brooklyn Beckham.\u201d<\/p>\n

nnnnnnn About collaborating with new talents:<\/strong> \u201cSince I started [my career] I have always loved collaborating with new artists. It\u2019s not something that\u2019s just happening at this stage of my life. [When I started] I always wanted the opportunity that gave me that thrill to collaborate with [established] artists that could allow people to get to know me. So, I want that to happen for others, to be able to share in that dream of elevating their careers; to serve as a medium, without any interest of absorbing what they do.\u201d<\/p>\n

nnnnn About Latino Gang: <\/strong>\u201cMy mindset has not only been about Jos\u00e9 or J Balvin, but about the general Latin culture, with Latino Gang. That our culture continues rising, that we are present, that in places where before we did not have the opportunity to sit, now we [are seated at the table].\u201d<\/p>\n

nnnnnnn Explosion of Latin music: <\/strong>\u201cNow there is a movement in Colombia with artists from different urban genres, trap, drill, dancehall, afrobeats, reggaeton. Now there is indeed a movement. Before in Colombia there were very few. The first ones who had the opportunity to get that exposure in the United States\u2026 at the beginning I was alone. Not because I was the best; simply because I worked and I was allowed to be one of the first to open the door for reggaeton [in the United States].\u201d<\/p>\n

nnnnn About his friend Karol G: <\/strong>\u201cCarolina is a person to be admired and highly respected. I had the opportunity to see all her process, all her patience and resilience to endure until her time finally came. I always had faith that this moment would come, and she knows it, and I think it has just begun. There\u2019s a lot more to do. She is definitely the woman who strongly empowers everyone, not only women, but all the people who dream and say it can be done.\u201d<\/p>\n

nnnnn About Colombian reggaet\u00f3n: <\/strong>\u201cWe didn\u2019t have a map, but we had a desire. Obviously reggaeton came from Puerto Rico. [In Colombia] we had Juanes, Carlos Vives, Shakira, but in the end, it\u2019s a completely different genre. We lack a reggaeton artist that represents Colombia. We don\u2019t have one. And I saw the opportunity to achieve that.\u201d<\/p>\n

nnnnn About his downfall:<\/strong> \u201cAfter that storm that fell on me, that earthquake, well here we are, stronger and more mature than before. We have had so many No. 1s non-stop, for a long time. I felt like, I was laughing, \u2018why does all this happen to them, and nothing happens to me?\u2019 And then, when it happened to me, I said: \u2018Ah! Okay, I wasn\u2019t the exception, it happens to me too.\u2019 And that learning served me a lot, it helped me to know who my friends are and who are not, to give myself more to my family, to my wife, to my closest friends, accompanying me at the time of darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n

nnnnn About his latest album Rayo<\/em>: <\/strong>\u201cThank God, that I can make music, not out of necessity, as we did before, but being able to do it from another point of view and from another situation. It allowed me to connect with that inner child and enjoy the music without caring if it sells or not, but what makes me happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

nnnnn About Coachella, extraterrestrials, and Will Smith:<\/strong> \u201cI have always been very fanatical about extraterrestrial life, it makes me very curious. And I, wanting to revive my inner child, decided on that concept. I explained to Will Smith, from artist to artist, that the alien was part of the original concept. We both had our problems. The greatness of a person cannot be overshadowed by a few mistakes. I am not going to judge Will Smith for his mistake. You cannot erase the legacy that man has made.\u201d<\/p>\n

nnnnn Latin Music Week coincides with the 2024 Billboard Latin Music Awards set to air at 9 p.m. ET on Sunday, Oct. 20, on Telemundo. It will simultaneously be available on Universo, Peacock and the Telemundo app, and in Latin America and the Caribbean through Telemundo Internacional<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

J Balvin, Billboard\u2018s current cover star, spoke with\u00a0Billboard\u2018s chief content officer Leila Cobo for a Superstar Q&A on Wednesday (Oct. 16) during\u00a0Billboard Latin\u00a0Music Week 2024. He spoke about his vision on the future of reggaeton, the power of collaborations and the importance of mutual support in difficult times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jconeloverlaradiodelamor.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jconeloverlaradiodelamor.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jconeloverlaradiodelamor.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jconeloverlaradiodelamor.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jconeloverlaradiodelamor.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jconeloverlaradiodelamor.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/www.jconeloverlaradiodelamor.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jconeloverlaradiodelamor.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jconeloverlaradiodelamor.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jconeloverlaradiodelamor.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}