Diandra Interviews Inti Y Vicente: A Dream Shared Is More Fun

When I think of how many people are trying to become artists, in this world, I want to run and hide. (lol!) It is truly a saturated field, of which you need to believe in yourself to survive and make others believe in you the thrive. How many others you get, measures how you thrive, but even that is not a measurement to your talent or charm. A lot of times, it is the luck born from staying focused, determined, and having enough support to make sure you stay in the game long enough to see yourself win it. For Inti & Vicente, their friendship and childhood bond over dreams and music helped them garner the resilience needed to be a star, and, in our interview, they discuss being the “fun heroes” of their story.

Diandra: With 2020 out, what would you say is the biggest change the year has brought to your sound?

Vicente: I think we have created more of everything. We always created music at home so I feel we have just done more of what we were doing.

Inti: It didn’t change in any negative. It motivated us to really focus and explore what “better” means to us. It pressured us to amplify the caliber of our music because, now, everyone was at home and trying to make something out of music. So we felt like we really had to learn more to compete.

Diandra: Was there something you learned?

Inti: Persistence! If you give your best, then you will always feel happy with yourself. This year has only further convinced us that this is our dream and it deserves our best.

Vicente: No matter the barrier!

Diandra: What made you decide that you were right for each other to share this dream together?

Vicente: It was so natural. We met in school and Inti played guitar. We were in school, on a class trip, and we went to see this play with these musicians that sang, at the same time, in such perfect harmony that they sounded like one voice. They sang and said everything in harmony, and we thought it was incredible. So we did it for fun, and then we started practicing, and we felt excited. Something about harmonizing together felt like, “Yes!”

Inti: We practiced so much. Our professors really encouraged us, as well. We were so supported.

Diandra: You have said your music comes with the purpose of connecting with people as much as making them connect with themselves. What do you feel people need to connect on?

Inti: I would say the fragments of life. I don’t know how to explain it, but it’s like….I can be on a text ride with a driver that says one wise thing and walk out inspired. It was a short ride with a stranger to the city square but yet it made me feel refreshed. I want people to feel small moments, like that, are big.Those things inspire my music. Life is infinite inspiration.

Vicente: 100% There is so much inspiration from life itself, especially documentaries. We love music documentaries.

Diandra: Is there something you see in common, that surprises you, with all the artists you have watched documentaries on?

Inti: That they end up really alone. That always shocks me, and I don’t know if it is, necessarily, their fault or just the world they are in, but they end up so alone. I don’t know why, but they end up with this inclination to separate themselves from others. They grow so distant from people, despite living to entertain them.

Vicente: It is why we are happy to have each other ( they laugh).

Diandra; Well, do you feel more protected or safe in having a friend pushing for a dream with you?

Vicente: Totally! I remember walking from school and talking about our futures and dreams. I would say, “I see us in a private plane traveling the world,” and I thought to myself, “That dream would be boring if I only saw myself on that plane.” We always had so much fun together. We laugh a lot: both on and off tour. So it was like, “Why not want to work and dream with someone you have fun with?” The fun makes us feel closer to success.

Diandra: As story-tellers, what do you see is a recurring theme in your story?

Inti: I feel the arc of the hero is a common theme. There is a great author, Joseph Campbell, who discusses how there is a pattern and a sequence in the arc of a hero like, in Star Wars or Percy Jackson. Now, I am not saying I am Percy Jackson and I cause storms (he laughs), but I understand their perseverance and resilience.They have end goals they want to achieve and they use their talents and determination to reach them.

Vicente: He is a Luke Skywalker (they laugh).

Diandra: So when you write love songs, do you see yourself as a hero? Or with the heroic qualities of sorts?

Vicente: I feel like, similar to a hero’s arc, love is about learning about yourself: seeing your strengths and weaknesses, I have found, so many times, amidst the chaos of a relationship or the power of a moment, putting my feelings into words helped me learn more about how I was feeling.

Inti: It brings a profundity to you. People learn more about themselves when they write about themselves. It may seem strange to sing about yourself, but it is crazy to see how it transforms you like, once I write about who I am, I become someone more or different.

Vicente: When we create our music, it is all about the joy of creating so it is like we leave ourselves to see ourselves.

Diandra: You have said that there is more of an awareness, even self-awareness, to your generation that previous ones did not have. How so?

Inti: Yes!! I didn’t say that meaning that we are better, but it does make us really different. Every generation is different, but I feel we have to juggle more in terms of information, our feelings, and how both intersect in terms of how we see the world and want to be seen by it.

Vicente: It really is strange and a lot. Social media and the internet carries a lot of knowledge, whether you like it or not, and you can get really addicted just to knowing. There is a sense of never feeling comfortable with what you hear or see, and, as story-tellers, are songs are about the everyday, normal interactions: people with people. It feels simple and needed.

Diandra: What is your favorite moment with music?

Inti: Our concert in school! It was so beautiful. It was the first time that everyone saw us as professional. We sang 10 songs and they were so attentive.

Vicente: It was so incredible to see people we know listening and enjoying our music with a seriousness like, they are absorbed our every move and lyric. It was amazing.

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