Alejandro Sanz arrives at 35 years of career with “the illusion recovered” after the personal process overcome in recent years, something that is palpable in his new long-format album and that will show both in a documentary and in an upcoming musical.
“We’ve been working on this project (of the musical) for a long time, which we had kept secret, but yes, we are working on it,” he confirmed to EFE during an interview, after searching for the cast and about to start the readings of the musical in a few weeks.
But what is already a reality is ‘¿Y ahora qué +?’ (Sony), which sees the light this Friday and expands to 13 tracks the previous EP ‘¿Y ahora qué?’, which just a few days ago brought him two more Latin Grammys, including the recording of the year for the song ‘Palmeras en el jardín’.
“I’ve learned to work in a different way without having to sacrifice so much. Many of my records, almost all of my previous ones, have been about a lot of personal sacrifice,” he says about the new approach to this album with a younger team, made up of people like Spredlof, Casta, Richi Lopez and Andy Clay.
“They make good lyrics, music, arrangements and productions and I’ve managed to delegate some things, not in the sense that others do it, but to be there and work it with others,” he explains after also singing with young figures such as Rels B or Emilia, although he denies that it is a strategy to reach younger audiences.
“That’s not our thing. It’s not about trying to connect by skipping your musical principles or pretending what you’re not. There has to be a musical connection. If I didn’t like Rels B, I couldn’t do anything with him. I did it once in my life, I recorded something I didn’t like – I won’t say with whom – and I’m never going to make that mistake again,” he admits.
Alejandro Sanz’s new album
Curiously, in the cut that closes the album, ‘Qué injusto’, he begins singing: “If I could travel in time, I would”. When asked if he would take the opportunity to change anything, he admits that “maybe” he would have “saved a couple of stages”, although the balance is tremendously positive.
“(I am proud) after 35 years of career to still be here with the same illusion intact, or recovered and, above all, to have always been very honest with what I do,” he stresses.
At the beginning of 2026 will come the documentary in which he will show his psychological and personal process after publishing in 2023 a message that went viral: “I am not well. I don’t know if this helps but I want to say it. I am sad and tired”.
He will do so with news, he reports, as Netflix is no longer part of the equation due to a difference of opinion. “I didn’t like the idea of doing a ‘reality’ show or that we had to fake things. When they started asking me for this I backed off a bit and we finally found understanding on Movistar’s part so we could do something that was real without having to fake it,” he argues.
Sanz, who recovers the “desire to play and a bit of mischief” with the single ‘Las guapas’, now looks forward to the long world tour ahead and, who knows, maybe in a year’s time he will have the chance to beat the Latin Grammy with a fellow countrywoman.
“Rosalía is a great artist and has a good chance of winning many awards. I haven’t listened to the whole album, I haven’t had time, but I have listened to several songs and I loved it. I think she is at the right moment to do what she wants to do and the songs as she thinks she has to do them,” she concluded, reported Agencia EFE.
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