By Amanda Mars
(El Pais)
An old detuned piano languishes in a corner of the department store converted into a photo studio.
Bad Bunny shows up no more than 10 minutes late for the meeting east of Los Angeles, a gift from a city devoid of traffic, the work and grace of the pandemic.
He greets from a distance, observes antiquity and I stroke the keys to see if the
trap
rises in him.
- I do not know how to play, he signals, approaching.
- And I only play this.
- I strum the famous notes of
Frère Jacques, Frère Jacques, do you sleep?
Are you sleeping?
- Even that, I can't.
In 2016, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio (born in Puerto Rico in 1994), alias
Bad Bunny,
or the Ugly Rabbit, was working to package the purchases of customers of a supermarket in Vega Baja, a town half an hour from San Juan.
In 2017 he was already bursting onto the international scene and today at the age of 26 he has broken several characteristic music industry records.
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