Evaluna feels “very honored” to be one of many honorees on the inaugural Billboard Mujeres Latinas en la Música (Billboard Latin Girls in Music), set to air Sunday, Might 7, on Telemundo. She’s going to obtain the Custom and Future Award, and can carry out alongside Canadian artist JP Saxe.
“That award is actually further particular to me,” she says in a brand new interview with Billboard Information. The Venezuelan singer-songwriter, daughter of ‘90s pop crooner Ricardo Montaner and sibling of urban-pop duo Mau y Ricky, recollects falling in love with music throughout a household journey in Italy.
“The second I stated ‘That is what I wish to do for the remainder of my life’ was after we have been in Italy, visiting collectively as a household, and all of a sudden, we heard a music by an Italian singer. We had no concept the place the music was coming from, however we have been obsessed together with her voice and the music,” she recollects. “What the music made me really feel and that search of getting to know who she was, I’d like to make somebody really feel the identical in regards to the music we do collectively within the household.”
The artist can also be married to the award-winning pop star Camilo, whom she has a number of collaborations with, together with “Por Primera Vez” and “Índigo.” The latter is called after their first child, who was born in spring 2022.
“Camilo writes songs with me. I really feel like he empowers me lots so I can talk what I’m feeling,” she says. “I really feel the music I do alone has at all times had a extra non secular sound. I feel my focus has at all times been attempting to speak a bit extra about my relationship with God. And Cami talks lots about love in his songs, which in essence is similar.”
Evaluna additionally thinks motherhood is “a beautiful journey.” “Being a mother is one thing completely new. I feel it’s my favourite model of myself proper now,” she gushes. “I’m fortunate as a result of I can work proper subsequent to her. Disregarding the hour, at any time when you may cuddle together with your child, I feel that generates the power to do all the pieces else.”
Hosted by Ivy Queen and Jacqueline Bracamontes, the 2023 Billboard Mujeres Latinas en la Música will probably be taped on the Watsco Heart in Miami on Saturday, and can air solely on Telemundo on Sunday at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT. The gala, which is an enlargement of Billboard’s Girls in Music franchise, will have fun Latin girls artists, executives, and creatives within the music trade.
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