Boza presents "Bucle" and explains the reason behind "San Andrés"

(CNN Spanish) -

Boza presented this Friday "Bucle", his second studio production, which includes songs such as the hits "Ella" and its remix version.

The album, with thirteen songs, addresses a variety of topics: dimes and diretes, jealousy, love, the enjoyment of sexuality, social networks, among others.

However, the Panamanian also opens his heart regarding his mental health.

"Bucle" is released less than two years after his debut album, "More black than red", a production that led him to a Latin Grammy nomination as a new artist and to be named by Billboard magazine as

, or emerging artist, in Spanish.

For the most part, Boza says in an interview via Zoom with Zona Pop CNN, the album was already written.

He only dedicated himself to choosing the songs that would be part of the

And releasing two albums in less than two years speaks to the Panamanian's ability to write songs.

A habit he developed years before.

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"There were songs that I already had written. I always keep writing. I think that when making an album I just have to choose the songs since I practically always have half or a little more than half of the album," Boza told CNN Pop Zone.

The singer, true to his beginnings and to the people who saw him take off as his songs went viral on social media, recorded in the same studio and with the same producer he has been with since his first song, Faster.

From the production, Boza had already released seven songs and there were six that surprised his followers.

"These last six songs we were very thorough in what the choice was. I always try to make a theme for each person, each listener or each situation. Each song [of the six unreleased] has a different

," he explains.

"Saint Andrew"

Among that meticulous selection is "San Andrés", song 5 of the album, which is also one of the singer's favorites.

In the theme Boza says: "every brain has a San Andreas fault, excuse me if I treat you without interest, but sometimes I feel that the world is upside down".

The singer refers to the feared San Andreas fault that crosses the state of California and has a length of almost 1,300 kilometers.

It is a fault in the land between the North American tectonic plate and the Pacific plate, responsible for the deadly earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1906.

Boza tells in an interview with Zona Pop CNN that the song came at a time when he felt he was going to explode.

"The song came out to me when [it was] about to explode. One loads a lot sometimes for a long time. Suddenly one has no one to talk to, because of trust or for many reasons"

"I wrote that song at 4 in the morning, [one] of those nights when you wake up out of nowhere and lose sleep and your mind is like walking and walking. I think the best thing I could have done It was writing that song. After I wrote it I felt like a relief... I told what I had to tell, I didn't tell anyone but the world will hear it, I practically told everyone, "explains the singer.

Does Boza feel like a puppet?

The theme, says the Panamanian, talks about "loves, about what one feels, what one goes through."

In one of the verses, the singer says that he feels like a puppet in the world.

And I feel like one more puppet of this world

"About the puppets, I think most of us have felt like I'm doing many things that people want me to do... you feel like you're doing what you want, but many times when you think about it, you're being what other people they want you to be," Boza tells CNN Pop Zone.

I'm a prisoner in my head, even if I do what I want to be free

The theme also refers to how in society we sometimes hide how we feel inside, appearing to be calm and happy when our heads spin at a thousand miles per hour.

"Many times we have a problem... facing the superficial, I can go to a resort, I can be bathing on a beach, I can be doing whatever it is and my head is somewhere else, thinking about some problem. I don't know if you It has happened that there comes a time when you are with everyone, but [it is] like you take off for a moment and then come back, things like that," says Boza.

Boza: "The mind also plays with one"

For the Panamanian, staying positive and letting go is one of the ways he calms his mind, he says.

"I always try to think about the positive. Many negative thoughts have come to my head, the mind also plays with one," he explains.

"There are times when you feel bad for no reason and it's strange. What I always try to think about is the positive or take something positive out of something negative. I always have that escape from that dark moment. I always try to think about what positive, what I've achieved, what I've been through, what I was before in my life.

And regarding the pressure he may feel within the industry, as a singer already with international projection, Boza says that he tries to let everything flow, a lesson he learned in prison.

"As for the pressure, I try to flow in everything. If I'm in a bad moment, I flow and let things happen, if I'm in a good moment, I flow and let things happen. In the end, a bad moment doesn't last a lifetime," he explains.

The learnings that he left behind bars

Before his single "Hecha pa' mi" broke the charts and became a global hit, Boza had a difficult adolescence that landed him in jail at age 16 for illegal possession of firearms.

"First they had given me five years, if I'm not mistaken. Then they lowered me a little more, to one year. And then they told me that I would leave next month and I would not leave. I felt that they were playing with my mind," says the singer.

"I learned a lot about patience. I was one of those people who wanted something and if I didn't get it when I thought I could get it, I got frustrated. I learned to wait," the Panamanian tells CNN Pop Zone.

Patience and letting go were one of Boza's learnings in those seven months in which he was imprisoned.

"The day they were going to release me, they weren't going to give it to me because I didn't have a lawyer. I had in mind that I was going to go back. Five minutes before I got on the bus to return to the prison, my mom got a lawyer," says the singer.

In those months, four notebooks were his escape, writing helped him stay mentally active and in a certain way, prepared him for the agility he currently has to compose.

There were almost 600 songs that he wrote in those weeks behind bars.

However, he tells him, he hasn't drawn any.

"I wrote songs about everything. The songs were much more intimate. There were much stronger moments. They were much deeper, more personal, more intimate issues. I see that as a stage in my life. I have it all saved," he says

"I created sayings, phrases, poems, drawings, songs. In truth, there are practically four notebooks full of pure songs. Everything I felt, what I thought I left there. Likewise, it was also evolving when writing. It was seven months, If I had not written even one of those months, when I had come out I would have been blank," he explained.

Reggaeton in Panama

Despite the fact that Panama is considered by many to be the cradle of reggaeton, Boza does not recall having clear influences from the genre.

Ivy Queen explains it in her original podcast with Spotify, LOUD, the foundations of what we know today as reggaeton emerged in Panama, in the Spanish translation of the

Jamaican

We have reference in the nineties to El General.

"People have the wrong impression that reggaeton was born in Puerto Rico but it was born in Panama. People think that reggaeton started with Daddy Yankee, in Puerto Rico and no, it actually [started in] Panama like a decade before," said the famous music producer El Chombo in the first episode of the "LOUD" podcast.

However, Boza, who was born in 1997, did not have a clear reference to the genre, especially because those who listened to that genre were

, as he explains, which for Panamanians, are wealthy people.

"In Panama it was like the one who listened to reggaeton was rare, like yeyé. In the underworld, in the ghettos, reggaeton was not heard," he says.

"We grew up listening to full Panama. Certain reggaeton songs were the ones that were played in Panama, not all really. That perspective has already been changing, the genre has been growing. We have been evolving, obviously, and now we already do reggaeton. It seemed complicated, It took me years to do a good reggaeton", he explains.

According to Boza, the closest thing he had as a reference was the

or romantic reggaeton.

"The closest thing to reggaeton was the

, if I'm not mistaken. The General, Nando Boom, there were several who did, if I'm not mistaken, 110 at that time," he says.

Reggae 110 is a subgenre of reggae, done at 110

, or measures per minute, which makes it moderate in tempo and makes the songs danceable.

Think of "Rica y Tightadita" by El General with Anayka.

"It was like the closest thing to reggaeton of those times. Those who hit were very few. I think it was difficult for me because I grew up listening to full Jamaica," he explained.

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