A documentary of just over ten minutes from Bad Bunny, in which the Puerto Rican artist reviews various stages of his life, including his childhood dream of becoming a star, his repudiation of transphobia and his faith in youth, It will be offered starting this Wednesday on YouTube.
“My dream was always this: that people knew my music, that people enjoyed my creations, my inventions and ideas“the singer expresses in the first minutes of the project of the series ‘Artist Spotlight Story’, directed by the Puerto Rican Kristian Mercado.
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“It’s like I say: you have to daydream. If you want to achieve your dreams, you have to daydream to achieve it or you have to work for it or you have to create or innovate,” says Benito Martínez, the artist’s real name.
The documentary, filmed in an abandoned shopping center in Miami, continues with Bad Bunny recounting his first steps in music., which he created at home after leaving school.
“That was my journal living from a young age, imagining and letting the mind manifest itself and if I have an idea of something, at least try,” recalls the 26-year-old.
With more than 26 million subscribers on his official YouTube channel, Bad Bunny also questions “where does so much” come from people who listen to his music and that the majority are people who do not speak Spanish and who nevertheless support him.
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“It feels good to be able to connect with people who don’t speak your language, and there you can see the power of music, art and everything I’ve created,” explains Bad Bunny.
He also reflects on the change in mentality he has had when he became a musical superstar, after working in a supermarket.
Meanwhile, the artist highlights performing at some of the most important music festivals in the world, as well as placing a large majority of his songs at the top of the best-selling tracks and albums.
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Puerto Rican talent
In turn, the artist admitted that every time he leaves Puerto Rico for a tour of presentations, he misses the island so much that the feeling compares it to an illness.
Along the same lines, he indicated that from the island “every day a new talent leaves with a view to being great.” “There is something special on that island that has nothing else in the world,” said the artist, at the time he said that Artists from different generations and genres have come out of Puerto Rico, but especially from reggaeton.
In the documentary, Bad Bunny also takes the opportunity to tell about the event in which unknown people murdered the transgender woman Neulisa Alexa Luciano Ruiz, whom the artist honored him with a vindictive message during his performance in the North American program ‘The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon’.
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During the presentation of the song ‘Ignorantes’, which is part of his new album, ‘YHLQMDLG’, the Puerto Rican singer wore a skirt and a white T-shirt with a message of protest and of rejection of this murder: “They killed Alexa, not a a man in a skirt. ”
Bad Bunny, on the other hand, assured that he has faith in Puerto Rico, especially in young people “and in the new generations that are growing”, as he lived it firsthand in the summer of 2019, when he joined other artists to demand the resignation of the then governor of the island, Ricardo Rosselló.
EFE
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