Evaluna Montaner and Camilo Echeverry were united by fate: they were hired for the same event -the launch of a baby shampoo in Colombia-, followed each other on Twitter and then went on WhatsApp. It was she who took the first step and the Colombian singer wasn’t far behind.
A year later (May 2015), with no more partners in their lives, they started dating. In February 2020 they got married and in April 2022 they became parents for the first time. They already knew the name (they chose Indigo, to make no gender distinction) and didn’t want to know the sex until after birth. Furthermore, they agreed not to show their daughter’s face to the world, to “respect her autonomy”.
From that moment, the couple never separated again. He, born in Medellín 28 years ago, exploded as a singer when he became attached to her, now 25 years old, born in Caracas and daughter of an international music figure, the Argentine Ricardo Montaner (65) and Venezuelan Marlene Rodríguez (58).
Together they have nearly 50 million Instagram followers. The two are protagonists of the docureality The mountaineerslaunched by Disney+ November 9th. The first five chapters of the initial season are available and the remaining five will be uploaded on December 28th.
For the presentation of the series, in Miami, clarion interviewed the couple, who have a special affection for Argentina, where in December 2021 Camilo had four shows at Luna Park and one at the Movistar Arena. He sold out of tickets and more than 30,000 spectators went to see him. Such was the success that he has now announced that he will return to his homeland on March 10, again at the Movistar Arena,
The best audience in the world
In Argentina, musicians always tend to say that it’s the best audience in the world, a bit to get on well with people. What sensations did you have?
Eve Moon: They are very passionate. We are, I will say, because I am also Argentinian.
Camillus: It’s a very passionate audience. I am passionate about Argentine music, Argentine rock, Argentine folklore, very passionate. It’s part of my childhood and it’s still part of my daily life today.
So it must be for that artistic excellence that for a long time the Argentine public hasn’t played at going to a show to see how it goes, it’s part of their DNA, the interaction with art. So I feel privileged.
Eve Moon: I love him and all his life he went to my father’s concerts in Argentina. We moved for long periods of time and my favorite plan was to go every night to see him at the Luna and also tours him at the Grand Rex. People are very passionate and It’s very nice to see the love they have for my father and my husbandIs very cute.
Camilo, author of hits such as “Tutu” -together with Pedro Capó-, “Índigo” and “Pegao” tells of having known Buenos Aires and San Carlos de Bariloche. And that he had a fleeting visit to Río Gallegos, for which he says he “really wants to visit and get to know Argentina better”.
Atahualpa, Facundo Cabral and Charly Garcia
Camilo, which artist do you admire from Argentina?
Camilo: Ugh, very… The first guitar loves I had were Atahualpa Yupanqui and Facundo Cabral, who marked me a lot, Mercedes Sosa. Charly García marked me later, his music, Sui Géneris was a very important part of my life, then Serú Girán too. Spinet, a lot.
The Colombian, who hasn’t taken off since 2016 Salvador Dali style mustache -the histrionic Spanish painter- admits that he is a football fan and humorously embraces the joke of clarion about the little strenuous ball games with his brother-in-law Mau that can be seen in The mountaineers.
Camillus: I love football, but low quality. I’m such a good soccer player that I get hurt and everything. The good ones get hurt.
Colombia is not in the World Cup, does a Latin team throw you more than another?
Camillus: First, I am very sad because Colombia is not in the World Cup. Total mourning, pain in the soul. But we are football fans and obviously one that gives a lot of strength to the Latino neighbors. I have many personal friends who play this World Cup in various teams. So I will give strength, above all, to the teams of those great friends I have.
Camillus, winner of four Latin Grammys in 2021It is clear to him that at his father-in-law’s house they pressured him to support Argentina.
“The passion for the Argentine shirt is so absurdly contagious and I have mine, signed, delivered and worn, which is the one I play terrible with, by the way, don’t laugh, brother. I have Di Mariathey’ll say ‘Di María is thinner than Camilo’, but it suits me very well,” she says.
Eve Moon: It fits you well.
-You miss Messi.
Camillus: I have Messi too.
-Ah, but first you said Di María.
Camillus: Because that’s what I have left (laughs).
And Evaluna closes with a lament: “Messi didn’t come out in the World Cup stickers”.
The show that Camilo will give in March
Colombian singer-songwriter Camilo will return to Argentina on March 10, to perform again at the Movistar Arena, this time as part of the Latin American tour De Adentro Pa fuera Tour.
Tickets for this visit by Ricardo Montaner’s son-in-law are already on sale on the website www.movistararena.com.ar.
She says her goal is to “keep making music that generates happiness” and that “represents me”.
Before his debut as an interpreter and the international success that results in more than five billion views across all digital platformsCamilo has written songs for other artists.
Among them are Becky G and Natti Natasha (no pajamas), Stereo Bomb (international), who ended up being his brothers-in-law Mau and Ricky and Karol G (my, wing), Sebastian Yatra and Mau and Ricky (she no longer has a boyfriend) and Bad Bunny (If We Were Together), among others.
Camilo describes himself as “an honest singer who uses love as the motif of his songs”. His music is generally characterized as Latin pop and reggaeton. Billboard magazine labeled their music as “romantic pop songs fused with urban beats”.
Miami / Special Envoy.
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Source: Clarin
