Seven years ago, Spanish singer Dani Fernández traveled to Mexico, bought an old guitar and composed ‘Oaxaca’, a song that reminds him of his two loves: his wife, Yarea, and his daughter, Belice, and also to the south of the country, that land where he is not looking for successes, only experiences, like the one he will offer at the Lunario in the Mexican capital.
“Coming to Mexico is more of a personal dream than an objective. I don’t want to come to break it or to have big hits, but to live the experience, get to know the country and enjoy its people,” explains the 34-year-old artist in a conversation with EFE on the occasion of his next and only concert outside his native country, to be held on May 21.
Fernández weaved a special bond with Mexico since 2015, when he was still a member of the Spanish pop band Auryn, and visited Mexico City for the first time to also promote a concert at the Auditorio Nacional, one of the most important music venues in the country.
Since then, the composer has returned several times to Mexican soil to win over his audience, a task that “is not as easy as people think”.
“It is taken for granted that -when you do well in your country- you have to be liked in other places where the same language is spoken, but the reality is that it is not that simple. You have to connect with the Mexican public, and you can’t force that connection, you have to work for it,” he defends.
In order to achieve this success, the singer, known for songs like ‘Bailemos’ or ‘Me has invitado a bailar’, has had to reinvent himself on numerous occasions, going from being a member of a boy band to a pop rock singer-songwriter, but always keeping calm, “without being in a hurry”.
“Reinventing myself has been the most difficult thing. I understand that from the outside it seems easy because it has been something natural, but in reality it has been a long process of believing in myself little by little,” she confesses to EFE.
This journey through his career was captured in the documentary ‘Dani Fernández. Todo cambia’, a journey through his life since he represented Spain in Junior Eurovision at the age of 14 until he won the Ondas award in 2022 for Musical Phenomenon of the Year.
Dani Fernandez wants to conquer Mexico: Necessary Pause
In 2025, his friend and collaborator in the song ‘¿Y si lo hacemos?’, Valeria Castro, decided to take an indefinite career break due to mental health problems caused by the exhaustion of the media pressure and his professional commitments, a gesture that shocked Fernández and made him see that he also needed to take a break.
“If you don’t live, if you don’t rest, there comes a time when you have nothing to say. You need to be good with yourself, otherwise it’s impossible to go on stage and transmit happiness, people notice it”, he says, after that break he decided to take in November last year, after announcing ‘La Insurrección Tour’.
For this reason, the artist, born in Alcázar de San Juan, surrounds himself with a team that takes care of his mental health and understands how important it is to rest, after going through “a lot of rhythm, travel and demands”.
With rapping honesty and humility, Fernandez admits that he neither feels nor wants to be a star, he just wants to continue being himself, to feel “proud” and leave aside numbers and money to “create and live”.
“If the next thing I do doesn’t represent me or I don’t really feel it, I’d rather wait, even if I have to come back in three or four years,” she revealed minutes before concluding the interview and getting ready to sign an autograph for one of her thousands of fans who are excitedly awaiting her tour: ‘La Insurrección’, which began this March in Spain, reported Agencia EFE.
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