Yeison Jiménez returns to the cantina to sing about heartbreak with ‘De Pura Rabia’

This is the first single that will be part of his next studio album that will be released in 2023.
The Colombian singer-songwriter Yeison Jiménez returns to the cantina to sing about spite and heartbreak in a new song, “De Pura Rabia”, which takes him back to his roots, to the popular genre, to tell “the story of a person disappointed by make the worst mistake of your life: falling in love.

It is the first single that will be part of his next studio album that will be released in 2023 and was born on a trip from Mexico City to Colombia, where Jiménez (Manzanares, Caldas, 1991) discovered that he needed “a cantinera song.”

«We have all been experimenting for about five years, with many sounds with Mexican alternatives, mixing things from pop to mixes with reggaeton. And I said, I want to return to those roots of the popular genre, also taking advantage of the fact that its rise is so strong after the death of our teacher Darío Gómez,” he says in an interview with EFE.

Yeison Jiménez, singer.
Yeison Jiménez, singer. Photo: EFE

“Of pure rage” officially premieres this Thursday, October 13, during the artist’s tour of the United States, who will return to Colombia to continue singing in his country before leaving, in February of next year, on an international tour of Europe and Australia , where it will be for the first time.

Remove the stigma from the canteen

With this song, Jiménez seeks to scare away the stigmas that have always fallen on cantina music, associated with heartbreak and “guaro” (aguardiente) bordering on the vulgar. Before “we only played in those types of places, today our music has crossed all borders,” celebrates the Colombian.

Now “it is very common to see someone with our music driving a car or in their office, at home cleaning, at a family gathering, they don’t have to be so linked to a canteen as such,” and that “has been our great “I work as a new generation of popular music, we were 100% stigmatized until we were able to distance ourselves more and more,” he says.

In this sense, Jiménez is not afraid to return to the music that brought him fame, he believes that he has gained “a lot of ground” and now he feels more confident than ever: “I like what I sing, I can identify with it.” , and not only with the cantina, but with all the genres he has experienced, from Mexican banda to northern salsa.

The rise of social networks has undoubtedly helped to remove this stigma, especially TikTok, where popular music has found its place and has managed to go viral. In fact, a piece of “De Pura Rage” went viral on this social network and Jiménez fans already know some verses before its official release.

The Colombian singer-songwriter is grateful to these platforms because they have helped him “create a community” and reach an audience that he may not have had access to before, it is “an easier and more direct way to reach the public.”

The future

Jiménez feels grateful for the career that he has built in the last ten years, which has led him to be one of the best-known popular music artists in Colombia, and assures that the dreams he has left to fulfill “are not material.” but “100% personal, artistic.”

In fact, he considers that “90%” of the dreams with which he modestly started his musical career have been fulfilled, including being able to buy a house, something that no one in his family had been able to do. The goals that she continues to pursue go further and seek to continue succeeding with what she does best: singing.

“I would like to fill the National Auditorium, fill arenas in Mexico and the United States, not only with Colombians, Venezuelans and Ecuadorians, but also begin to attract a Mexican audience,” he says while daydreaming.

“If you ask me ‘what are my next dreams?’ I want to become great, I like greatness, I like artists who die as legends,” says Jiménez.

EFE

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