Leonel García on his nomination for best singer-songwriter album: When you are nominated in that category, you think you are making it

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The Mexican singer-songwriter Leonel García, nominated in two categories in the twentieth installment of the Latin Grammy.

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(CNN Spanish) - Leonel García was announced by the Sin Bandera duo with Noel Schajris in 2000. Nine years later they decided to separate and try alone. Garcia released 5 albums and is currently touring with the Mexican duo Camila and with Noel himself.

In the special week of Pop Zone from Las Vegas, because of the twentieth installment of the Latin Grammy 2019 awards, we talked with Leonel, who is nominated in two categories, best pop song, for the song “Dance”, and best album of singer-songwriter, for "Love present."

“This nomination is very exciting for me because the people I most admire in music are singer-songwriters in English and Spanish, and, from a very young age, I started composing songs, I began to see myself as a singer-songwriter and when I nominate in that category, you think you are doing it, ”says the musician.

Marysabel Huston: "Love present" is the album that takes you to the nomination, how was it born?

Leonel García: "The album is the continuation of" Future Love ", which is the first album where I use this pun and now" Last Love "is going to come out next year, a traditional Mexican music album very much my way to see it and with quite original versions. This album was born as a review exercise of my life as a music fan. I love music, I bathe and wherever I go with music. ”

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@marysabelhuston is in the city of sin, Las Vegas at the 20th ceremony of the @latingrammys and interviewed @leoelleon, what have they talked about?

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MH: How do you see pop as a genre today?

LG: “It's very interesting because in this era of mergers and the loss of the lines clearly between genres, pop is popular music. Before if there were certain characteristics. Pop was what didn't look like rock and it was like more “strawberry” as we say in Mexico, more light , more fun, more naive. But now there are incredibly interesting pop artists in lyrics, music and production or more interesting that are on the other side as in the alternative or rock. I think it's a time when genres are the artist himself. I like to think that we can unite more at the moment when we divide less. ”

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Goodnight! Tomorrow to the USA, shows in California this weekend, Ontario and Okland, from there to Vegas at the week of @latingrammys, media, seeing colleagues and celebrating music, the next week for South America, and 29 in TJ for the first show of the Amor Presente tour, several shows are coming for next year, soon days and cities, there are already several cities on the list, what a thrill, today I saw advances in the visual part of the show and it is a total beauty, It will be very exciting to be able to share it with you and my dear group of crazy people with whom I will turn. All my love for you in these troubled days, we generate love to counter a little of the bad, meanwhile I wish you smiles and good times. Enjoy everything. Kisses #tour #songwriting #vegasbaby #hastapronto

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What kind of music do you have in your personal catalog? What was inspired to compose the themes of this production? What genres are your favorites? Why do you consider it as an eclectic disk? What is your most recent playlist ?

We invite you to listen to the talk we had with Leonel García in the City of Sin, days before the twentieth installment of the Latin Grammy.

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