Monday, February 21, 2011

Carlos Baute: "Thanks to Spain I survived"

.- "I survived thanks to Spain," confessed today the Venezuelan Carlos Baute, who managed to break into the music industry avoiding the pitfalls of piracy, which in his opinion, has cut the road to international success for many artists of his country. Spain "gave me much love and thank God that is still selling music and doing concerts," said Carlos Baute in an interview with Efe in Viña del Mar, where the act for the first time Wednesday as part of the festival.

The singer of "Hanging in your hands" is also part of the international jury of the contest, the most popular in Latin America, from today until Saturday to the Chilean city attract artists like Sting, Chayanne and Alejandro Sanz. At 36, Carlos Baute now lives in a continuous journey to base camp in Madrid and Miami, but for ten years the artist made Spain their only home, and he managed to "survive in this highly complicated." The artist recalls that "many Latinos who have tried to enter the Spanish market and have failed", so much so consider "weird" having achieved success in Spain, as its "natural market has always been Latin America." "Playing in America was simply a matter of record," says Baute, whose productions are in charge of Warner.

The singer, who was eight years old participated in a television program, also welcomes the talent search contest. "Sounds good. In Spain, thanks to such programs came Bisbal, Bustamante, Chenoa "he recalls. For this artist, the evils of the industry embodies the piracy that threatens the very survival of music.

"Every time you consume more music, but unfortunately pirate" he notes. "If there were no piracy there would be a boom of new players on all sides." "If we are not going to be hacking new artists," he warns. So he would look "great" initiatives such as the controversial 'Sinde Act', which seeks to prevent illegal downloads in Spain, and proposed alternative programs that offer music legally, like Spotify, which operates in Europe.

"In the future everyone is going to download music," predicts optimistically, even today, this problem prevents many musicians of his country to make the leap abroad, although they do not lack talent. "I can forty groups name right now, but they do not leave Venezuela because there is much piracy.

People do not buy disks and do not have money to get them out. So, if sold in, how they will sell out, "Baute asked. There, he says, the situation is "very sad" because "for many years there are two Venezuelas, and that had not happened in my life." "Today in Venezuela, Chavez Chavez does not hate and vice versa.

And that's nonsense, "he says." It is terrible, and it should not happen. We are all Venezuelans. I dream that one day again be the Venezuela before, "he says. This situation led to just such a controversy between Baute and Alejandro Sanz, when the former refused in 2008 to sign a letter against the ban imposed on the Spanish, who could not sing in Venezuela.

Both match on Saturday in Viña del Mar. The artist says, however, long since resolved this misunderstanding and said he did not sign the letter of protest "no not support Sanz," but to stay out of politics. "I have family there," he adds. The singer of "Who loves you like I" ensures that there are no more problems of this kind in Venezuela, although the last day 12 delayed the processing of visas for their players prevented him from climbing on stage with Marc Anthony Caracas and Alejandro Fernandez.

After passing through the Festival de Viña, Baute accompany Miguel Bosé and five other artists on 30 March at a theater in Madrid, on April 15 will travel to Castellón (eastern Spain) and then jump to Argentina, Mexico and Ecuador, to continue conquering Latin America.

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