Although he claims he is not the “right person to be famous”, Eduardo Hernández Saucedo, better known as Ed Maverick, became one of the youngest and most listened to singer-songwriters on the Mexican scene at the age of 17, after the song he dedicated to the girl his friend liked, ‘Fuentes de Ortiz’, became a worldwide hit.
Now, seven years later and far from fame, he tells EFE, in one of the few interviews he gives, that he does not like his direct, melancholic and loving music to be related to show business: “I want it to be linked to the world of art. In the end, that’s what music is: art”.
Shows its most human and vulnerable side
“The music I make is in my most vulnerable flashes, but I’m not that anything else.”
“I’m human and I have my part that I try to improve all the time,” adds the 24-year-old musician.
While still a minor, his success, Ed Maverick acknowledges, changed the way he related to people.
“Most of the time I feel embarrassed. If I get to a restaurant and they play my rolas (songs), I will most likely leave.”
Although, with a laugh, he adds: “If I’m drunk, I feel a little more joy and not so embarrassed”.
The price of fame
After moving from the northern city of Delicias (Chihuahua) to the Mexican capital, and later returning to his homeland, Ed Maverick acknowledges that he has had to rebuild his personal ties.
“As of today, for me life has nothing definitive in the matter of the people you relate to (…)”.
“The main problem I feel most difficult and existential is that of trust.”
“There are friends I no longer have because the way I perceived myself was not the ideal of a person with whom you can have a well-made bond.”
“All the time it’s doubting whether it has anything to do with being famous,” reflects ed Maverick.
According to him, this generated certain insecurities in him:
“You don’t realize that you start to need closer ties until you feel completely alone.”
Far from commercial trends, Ed Maverick released ‘The Cloud in the Garden’ in 2024, a 53-minute single track album with the songs linked together that broke the logic of viral singles.
Betting on the transcendent, not on fame
“I don’t like to release music in the traditional way. We wanted to do something more transcendent, not just looking for the hit of the moment,” he explains.
A success that certain songs of the new Mexican music achieve through the musical style and lyrics of the corridos tumbados.
“It scares me that there’s so much violence that the music is about that, but it’s not the artists’ fault,” Ed Maverick points out.
“The corrido is a reflection of social and political mismanagement. Even so, I like it very much; it is part of my references”.
Along with the way he understands music, after touring theaters in the United States, Europe and Mexico on a tour planned two years ago, Ed Maverick explained that when it was organized “I didn’t want to stand in front of so many people.
“Today I would do it just for the money that represents, but I prefer a more intimate format.”
This Monday, the Mexican, accompanied by his guitars and a full house of 3,000 people, illuminated, in a subdued staging, the capital’s Teatro Metropólitan, where he presented his songs in a two-hour concert.
With information from EFE
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