Uruguayan singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler will sing along with the English Elvis Costello at the Latin Grammy Awards ceremony to be held the following day 17 November in Las Vegas, Nevada, as announced to the agency EFE the Latin American artist.
“I will go to the Latin Grammys with my band, I will sing at the Latin Grammys, I am very happy. And I am happy because I will be singing with a guest who is also kind of a dream,” Drexler told EFE. , nominated for nine awards for his latest album ink and timereferring to Costello.
Drexler, who is in New York where he starts this Tuesday a concert tour in the United Stateshe says that when they proposed to sing at the ceremony, they also asked him who he would like to share the stage and the song with.
“Can I aim high?” Drexler asked them, to which the organizers told him yes, or at least to try.
“And I said Elvis Costello, with whom I had worked on his record Spanish modeland he had worked closely with him on adapting a song, “said the artist, who has already brought the ten songs of his new work to various Latin American countries.
He added that when the prestigious interpreter of This year Template She said yes, Drexler was jumping for joy.
“He told me with great joy and great availability and said he really wanted to do things. The truth is, I can’t believe it. I’ve been rehearsing with him for a few dayshere in New York, talking a lot with him on the phone, organizing it, making an adaptation of the song we have to sing “, he commented before warning that the song they will perform cannot be anticipated since it is “a surprise”.
“A delightful person”
When asked what Costello is like on a day-to-day basis, Drexler said: “He’s an absolutely delightful person, with some degree of modesty which relocates the entire perception that one can have of a musical idol “.
And he ensures that «he acts with a completely disarming naturalness“, to the point – he says – that it seems that Costello is not at all aware of his own transcendence.
“It is a rare bird, it has a kind of wonderful blindness towards its transcendence, it is as if it does not see it. It seems to me the brightest vital attitude in this work,” said the Uruguayan, before insisting that these days of living together with Costello are for him more than a musical experience in view of a show, “a life lesson”.
Drexler starts touring next week in the US and Puerto Rico to present his new album Ink and time. The newly released album features special guests ranging from legendary Ruben Lame to the Israeli Noga Erez. a new job appears after five years without registration, pandemic through.
The tour will start this Tuesday November 1 in New York and two days later it will arrive at the James L. Knight Center Coliseum in Miami. New Jersey will be on the 10th of that month. On the 11th, Washington and on the 12th, Boston.
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