The true story that Julieta Venegas wants to tell
Forget the gossip. If you expected Julieta Venegas’s next book to be an account of her love relationships, you better adjust your expectations. The singer was clear: she’s not going that way.
“It’s more about my relationship with music, the memoirs focus on something and I wanted to know where it (the music) came from in me,”
he said during a brief meeting with the press.
Norteña: memories of the beginning
This will be the name of the material that will tentatively arrive in spring. It is no coincidence that it shares a name with his next album. Both projects were born in parallel, but according to Julieta, they are different universes.
“The book and the album are different things. The album is a celebration of my land, everything is connected and at the same time not (with the text),”
He explained briefly.
The story begins with an eight-year-old girl discovering her taste in music. Then comes family support to study piano, the fleeting time in Tijuana No!, another band in Monterrey and finally, in the mid-90s, the decision to strike out alone.
Friendship on stage
While the book takes shape, the music doesn’t stop. His first single from the new album, “I have to tell you”, is already circulating with Natalia Lafourcade. For Venegas, recording with her was special.
“I love Natalia and I admire her a lot, we met many years ago and in the end it is a song that talks about friendship. We always talk to each other like ‘friend, friend’ so it was nice to sing with someone like that,”
he expressed with genuine emotion.
The 55-year-old artist was present at the premiere of the documentary “Flamingos”, where she lends her voice as narrator. The director Lorenzo Hagerman chose her precisely for that reason: for being a natural voice, far from the academic tone that knows everything.
“The story, the text, is beautiful, I hope everyone sees it”,
Venegas concluded about the project that opens next week in national theaters.
So now you know: if you’re looking for romantic drama, you’ll have to look elsewhere. What Julieta offers is something more intimate: a journey to the origin of her music.
