Mexican singer and actress Susana Zabaleta presented this Thursday the song ‘Soy loca por ti’, a tribute to her partner, comedian Ricardo Perez, in which she celebrates her love for him through an intimate cabaret show similar to the classics of the eighties.
“You do things for the people you love, you do things for the moment as if it were a testimony of life, as if you wanted to remind people that you can be happy,” said the singer at a press conference to present the song, which will be released on March 6 in audio and video.
According to him, the single is a kind of celebration for the love he feels for his partner, so he will try to make the public understand that this is a “testimony of life” that is summarized in that “loving is contagious”.
The actress recalled her origins in cabaret shows, so, she explained, her goal is to make a “tribute to all those people who did that cabaret, who got on stage and said what had happened the week before or yesterday”.
In this sense, he assured that in the past it was possible to talk “about what was going on in politics” in these shows, in which “jokes could even be made about the president, about his lovers, about the names that were called”.
Susana Zabaleta happy for the premiere of her new song
However, now “they kill you” if you do that, he said, contrasting the current situation with the era of “impressive openness” in Mexico in the 1980s.
In any case, he defended that artists are “very sentimental” and express different emotions with their songs, both positive and negative, which in his opinion is what makes him “have a change and be so different”.
For his part, his partner, Ricardo Pérez, pointed out that it is something “very special” that someone dedicates a song to him, in which, he explained, he appears as a “muse who writes a very beautiful love letter”.
“For Susana it is a video surrounded by love from people who love her so much (…) My heart is bursting with love,” he added.
The video was directed by Bernardo Vázquez, who started working with Susana Zabaleta as her makeup artist, but decided to make the leap to show business to direct a theater in Mexico City.
“We met many years ago and I started in makeup in this industry but I wanted to be a creative director and it took me 20 years to get to design this theater (…) It imposes a lot to direct the person who educated you. It’s not easy, but it was easy because he trusted me and the things I wanted to do,” he said, Agencia EFE.
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