Diandra Interviews Nanpa Básico: Finding Your “Solecito”

Nanpa Básico. is a perfect example that that if you learn how to use the internet, you are, virtually, unstoppable. Much like fame, I don’t really know the formula to “get” the internet (lol!) It is a world that asks you to be the most open, mysterious: constantly exposed, yet oddly abstract. Nanpa Básico. has used that dynamic to climb as an international artist, and creates a sound style that feels so…. Nanpa Básico. In our interview, we talk about originality, determination, and moms. 
Nanpa Básico – Solecito (Video Oficial)

Diandra: What relationship inspired “Solecito”? 

Nanpa: I wrote that song for the woman I most love: the mother of my children. I think that everybody has someone that is the “sun” of their life. Whether that person is their wife, mother, brother, sister, father, child, it doesn’t matter. We all have that person that brighten our life with their warmth and makes us smile. 

Diandra: Do you consider yourself a romantic? 

Nanpa: Maybeeee……. I don’t know….. I feel like I am too sensitive and sweet, but romantic? I just know that love is the most powerful force.  I have done very loving, romantic things for my wife, like everyday I leave her a lover letter, send her flowers, and, obviously, I write her love songs. In every relationship, it is important to realize you are constructing something: cultivating it. So what you do for or to the other person is apart of building your story with them. Nanpa Básico – Casaca (Video Oficial)

Diandra: Your songs are so much about joy and compassion. Who are the people that most bring that for you? 

Nanpa: My children! They are love. I think when you have kids you learn what love is. My kids and my mom. I have SUCH an immense admiration for her. In everything, I want to be like her. 

Diandra: Do you think becoming a family man has softened you or made you find hope in humanity because you do have songs where you  really lose faith in us? 

Nanpa: I feel like there are two positions. My love for humanity does not block me from seeing it is divided, especially between good and evil or people care versus those who don’t. I mean we are divided in EVERYTHING! You have environmentalists versus polluters, vegetarians versus meat-eaters, pacifists versus war-lovers, and we have the tendency to deal with every difference or disagreement with violence, and we are the ONLY species that does that. Every species has a purpose or a reasoning, especially when it comes to furthering their own kind, but we are the only ones that destroy ourselves and, frankly, we have no reason. We literally put ourselves on the brink and it is so foolish. 
Nanpa Básico – Después de las 12 (Videolyric)

Diandra: What is your favorite memory with music and family? 

Nanpa: So many! So many! I’ll never forget when I went to perform at this really big arena in Colombia and, right before I went on stage, my mother gave a blessing, and when I finished performing my eldest son just ran up to me with so much pride. 

Diandra: With childhood in mind, do you have any favorite things from that era?

Nanpa: I was OBSESSED with this TV special on Anacondas and I recorded it on VHS, and I would rewatch it like a million times .

Diandra: With how influential you are in music, especially in Spanish Hip Hop, who do you see as the influencers? 

Nanpa: When it comes to influential, beyond whether they are good or bad, I think Eminem is superbly influential. He has a way of saying things that is so him. He is so distinct, and I think that is something you have to respect. I think Jay-Z, as well, is an amazing rapper, but he has really impacted people with his ability to be a massive businessman. It is something incredibly admirable, especially for kids: “the man who made himself.” 
Nanpa Básico – La Verdad del Pobre (Audio Oficial)

Diandra: With nearly 11 years as an artist, what are the growths you have seen in yourself? 

Nanpa: I have been in music for awhile, and it has been rough. There were a lot of difficulties, and I really had to clear my head and push myself through. You have to fight, and understand that struggle IS apart of gain. 

Diandra: Do you feel more at peace with your career? 

Diandra: Yeah! I have my family. Luckily, I work with a of my friends, and I feel that that makes the work feel less like work. There comes a point in your life, like I said, where you see struggle is apart of life, but so is joy and that comes from the people you surround yourself with. 

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