Mexican singer María José is celebrating her 50th birthday and 35th career anniversary with the recording of a new album with unreleased songs of “broken hearts” and “female empowerment”, while celebrating that the “matriarchy is making progress” in music and politics, according to an interview with EFE.
“There we go, there we see important women in the industry, which I am very proud of, especially Latina women, I love it. Above all, we also see it in politics. In other words, we are seeing more and more women in the highest political positions in the world and that speaks of a matriarchy that is on the move,” she said in Miami.
La Josa, born in January 1976 and famous since the early 1990s for the group Kabah, says she will record in Miami the second half of a “completely unreleased album with songs that people are waiting for”, about “broken hearts, broken souls, but empowered, with a lot of feminine content”.
After leaving Kabah in 2005, María José became popular with songs such as ‘No soy una señora’, ‘Adelante corazón’ and ‘Las que se ponen bien la falda’, as she states that she has “always tried” to be a “woman who sets an example for her daughter and, therefore, for all young people”.
“That we women are strong fighters, we have a voice, a vote and that everyone, in any relationship, deserves to be treated well, regardless of gender, we deserve to be treated well and to be loved 100% and not with bits and pieces. No pedantry,” she adds.
María José and her new album in her ‘best moment’.
The singer of ‘Lo que tenías conmigo’ sang for the first time last week at the ‘Premio lo nuestro’, a ceremony that recognizes the best of Latin music in the United States, where she performed ‘Te apuesto’ with Ha*Ash.
Although she jokes that her knees are those of someone in her 80s, she says that she “feels 30”, with a “maturity and a very rich wisdom” because she no longer “cares so much about what people say, or what people think”.
“I’m going to sound very auntly and very hackneyed, but I do feel that life feels different as you get older and you enjoy it more. And for me, I’m in my best moment,” she says.
The Mexican confesses that she wants to explore genres such as salsa and cumbia, besides not ruling out corridos tumbados “depending on what the lyrics say”.
She would also like to collaborate with Ricky Martin, Chayanne or Marc Anthony, and expresses admiration for the new female exponents of Mexican music, such as Majo Aguilar, Camila Fernández and Mar Solís.
“I like that women today are incredibly vocal about their feelings without being seen as the weak ones. On the contrary. I mean, expressing your feelings makes you stronger and makes you have more guts,” she points out.
María José’s song ‘Prefiero ser su amante’ has become a classic for the gay community in Mexico, which is why she attributes part of her success to the LGBT+ community, even from her time in Kabah.
“When I started my solo career I said: the day there is a María José apart from me, that is to say a (drag) dressed as María José, it’s because I’ve already done it (already triumphed) because if the LGBT+ community represents you doing those shows it’s because you’ve already reached a very closed and very demanding community,” she says.
He also considers it “wonderful” to come to the United States whenever he can, reported Agencia EFE, where he has found a Mexican public that “curiously” has “a different euphoria” from that of Mexico, as “it is more tender” and marked by “nostalgia”.
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