Diego Cantero (Molina de Segura, 1982), leader of Funambulista, could not sleep for two days.
The decision he had to make could change his life.
If he let an international artist like Ricky Martin keep the song he had just composed for him, he would earn a lot of money, but what if not?
The Murcian singer-songwriter had previously composed for Raphael or Malú, but this time it was different.
"I had never felt the slightest attachment to a song written for others, but with this one I would compare figures and I didn't care," he explains in the video of this new episode of History of a
song
.
"My friends and my partner told me that he was crazy."
I like life
(2021) was born as a vital and energetic post-pandemic song, with Latin rhythms and a colorful video clip.
Today it accumulates almost 15 million views on Spotify and this summer it has played non-stop on the radio.
“I published it when I decided to start my own record label and get out of a multinational.
It has reached an audience that would never have listened to me before, ”she says with the guitar in her lap.
For him, who had always composed ballads and heartbreak songs, it is not usual to receive so many positive messages: people who shower with it in the morning, who put it on the children at school... Today, before embarking on a concert tour of Spain in which
Me gusta la vida
will predictably be one of the most chanted songs, he still does not know if the Puerto Rican singer even heard it before backing down.
“I wouldn't dare ask either,” he says with a smile.
What led you to make this decision?
How did you compose
I like life
?
Diego Cantero from Funambulista reflects on these and other questions in the interview for Historia de una canción, an audiovisual format from EL PAÍS that has featured artists such as Fito, Rozalén, Pablo Alborán, Víctor Manuel, Álvaro Urquijo, Vanesa Martín, Mocedades, Antonio Carmona, Alex Ubago and Mikel Erentxun, among others.