Kany Garcia – La Siguiente

By: Alejandra Gil M.

Q) How would you describe your sound, Pop, Alternative?

A) I think music is becoming less and less pure. I have never been satisfied with defining my music as pop because I would have skipped the possibility of exploring bachata, cumbia, vallenato and many other rhythms that have lived my songs. The word “singer-songwriter” has always identified me, because in it one does not see the edge of that horizon and it is intimately charged with feeling, pain, struggle and the truths of the people and the people.

Q) Who are some of your musical influences?

A) Well, quite diverse with perhaps a common denominator common denominator in most of them and that is the singer-songwriter genre. Artists like Sabina, Charlie Garcia, Mercedes, Silvio, Chavela, Violeta Parra, Pablo and Serrat, but I cannot deny that my childhood was loaded with the salsa of the great combo of PR, Hector Lavoe, Frankie, Cheo, Ismael, Ruben and so many more.

Q) Tell us about the story behind your new single “La Siguiente” with Christian Nodal.

A) “La Siguiente” is a beautiful flirtation with regional Mexican music which I love deeply. Mexico and its folklore have a level of enrichment to the ear like very few other places. The story was a simple excuse to delve into something I enjoy, stories of taverns, of neighborhoods, from the hand of someone I have long admired, Nodal.

Q) The single was also co-written with Christian Nodal. What attracted you to work with him?

A) Nodal has a voice that literally carries Mexico in his throat. He has a privileged vocal range and what has been a great surprise is that behind it, he hides a sensitive, feminist, respectful man and someone I privileged call a friend.

Q) What is your songwriting process? Do you need music before you can come up with the lyrics?

A) In my process almost always, the story is the first thing. In it is enclosed many times as in my head I want to dance it – if in son, if in cumbia, if in a bolero. Then I start working on the lyrics and melody simultaneously.

Q) The track was also released with a music video filmed in Buenos Aires and directed by Diego Peskins, and shows the story of a couple, the aspects that usually happen in a relationship before breaking up, and also integrates personality traits such as individual tattoos. To what extent were you involved in the development of the concept?

A) I think Diego was very gentle in taking care of our personality traits, as well as telling us what was in his head and trying to convince us. It is one of the few videos that I have let myself go one hundred percent – that I have been little of opinions but that I have felt more at ease. And I think that much had to do with the chemistry I have with Christian, with him everything is easy.

Q) Your voices harmonize perfectly in “La Siguiente,” which tells the story of a relationship that didn’t work out. What do you hope people take away from it?

A) Learn about women and how little we need that story of the better half. Learn about the sensitivity of men! It is nice to see a Mexican, with the machismo that still exists, dare to express himself, to recognize what hurts, to ask for forgiveness and why not? To beg a woman. The best thing? That many people identify with the song and that gives me hope for new times of love stories.

Q) You are nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards in the categories of Best Pop Vocal Album for your album El Amor Que Merecemos and Best Tropical Song for “Agüita e coco.” What does this honor mean to you?

A) In the case of the album, it is a gift because it is an album that involved an exercise that allowed me to co-write many songs with composers and musicians I admired and to achieve this is to feel that the exercise culminated in something beautiful. But what I did not genuinely expect was to be in tropical song. “Agüita e coco” is a song that I love and that this type of recognition allows me to continue to move away from perhaps that pigeonhole that sometimes people create with genres that define only and forever an artist.

Q) Your latest album also includes songs like “Mi plan de Vida,” “Supe que Eras Para Mí,” “Muero” and my favorite “Me Quedo Sola.” Is there any song that stands out as a favorite or that was more difficult to record?

A) “Supe que Eras Para Mí” is a song that I wrote to the story of my parents and talks about a priest who falls in love, but in this case, I tell it from another angle, changing characters and taking it to a story of 2022 was an enjoyment apart from those Sabina fans that found a couple of phrases of the master that gave me illusion to add.

Q) What album/group are you currently listening to and why do you like it?

A) Just this week I have on repeat the album Nacarile by ILe.

Q) You are part of social media. Why is it such an important way to connect with your fans?

A) Today is everything! Today is the way to know which song is working, how your audience behaves, which is your strongest fan base in each city, how you address them in the shows, what social issues are important to them, whether it’s for writing a song or for what I talk about in the concerts. Besides, they know me without filters, without third parties! I really enjoy the stress of being on the lookout. [laughs]