In our Q&A /attribute collection Tell Me Más, we ask several of our favored Latine artists to share some inside details concerning their lives and practices, disclosing every little thing from their latest read to the tracks that obtain them hyped. This month, Grammy-winning musician Goyo, a participant of famous team ChocQuibTown, decreases in to speak about her most recent turn as a solo act, Afro-Latine depiction, and what she’s entered shop for us in 2024.

As reggaetón, afrobeats, and catch come to be international, their unique noises and solutions come to be a lot more sealed. However, rap artist and vocalist Goyo has constantly resisted the boundaries of a solitary style. As a participant of the acclaimed team ChocQuibTown, the audio that she assisted craft together with her bro Miguel “Slow” Martinez and Carlos “Tostao” Valencia, mixed components of conventional African percussion, Colombian individual, hip-hop, dancehall, and reggaetón. Now, as she proceeds her music trip, this moment as a solo musician, Goyo still locates it hard to placed a tag on specifically what her audio is.

“The truth is that it’s difficult for me to classify myself as one single thing . . . I can easily do a song that’s straight hip-hop or a song that’s straight folkloric. It’s part of what I am,” states the musician.

When she initially got here on the scene, it was equally as hard for the sector to categorize her and her fellow team participants. They won their very first Grammy under the rock/alternative group for the tune “De Donde Vengo Yo,” as there was no urbano group during that time. But because that time, the style has blown up enabling young artists from barrios around the world to chase their desires and enabling women hosts to reveal what they can.

Yet, regardless of this increase of brand-new skill, there is a fluidness and maturation to Goyo’s audio that instantly establishes her apart.

“Within the urbano movement, hip hop, rapping, singing, that’s where I feel most comfortable,” she informs POPSUGAR.

For veteran followers of ChocQuibTown, this ought to come as not a surprise, as Goyo’s skill for ariose hooks and exact lyricism has appeared given that ChocQuibTown’s launching cd “Somos Pacifico” in 2006. However, since the limelight is exclusively concentrated on her, she’s able to completely welcome her convenience, crafting tracks and checking out ideas that highlight a a lot more individual trip.

“With ChocQuibTown, what we wanted to do was put Chocó on the map, to vindicate our culture, and in some way say that ‘hey, we’re here.’ We’re representing our hood,” Goyo shares. “The difference now [as a soloist] is the experience, everything that I’ve lived, showing everything that I am as a versatile woman.”

It’s a trip that has lots of parallels with a particular hip-hop tale and among Goyo’s idolizers: Ms. Lauryn Hill. Both were the single women participants of giant rap teams. Both ruptured onto the scene to prompt honor and not just might balance and offer R&B components to praise their male team participants’ raps, however they were likewise giant spitters in their very own right. The resemblances aren’t shed on Goyo as she confesses to looking to Ms. Hill, not just as a resource of ideas however a instructor of types, assisting her develop self-confidence as a young host.

“For me, she’s a teacher in the way that [listening to her music] was able to rid me of a lot of fear and allow me to be myself when it came time to write [my verses],” Goyo states.

Along with Hill, Goyo points out Foxy Brown, and Rah Digga as significant impacts. On the Latin side of points, artists like Tego Calderon, Celia Cruz, and Grupo Niche have all had a remarkable influence on her.

“I grew up surrounded by music, my mother and my aunts always singing in the house. So while I was growing up influences would always come to me from all different sides,” she remembers.

These various sides were something she obtained to display in the HBO unique, “En Letra de Otro,” where she placed her spin on timeless tracks like Don Omar’s “Otra Noche” and Tito Puente’s “Oye Como Va.” But do not obtain it turned, these weren’t simply Goyo’s analyses of standards. She absolutely made them her very own, repositioning them with totally initial verses and beats.

Now, she prepares to comply with up that task with a brand-new cd of all initial tracks. And if the very first 2 songs are anything to pass, Goyo is making use of the deep waters of the urbano style as her play ground.

“Tumbao” offers reggaetón de la vieja feelings with its straightforward dembow and conventional percussion components. Insomnia on the various other hand is a full 180. Produced by hip-hop manufacturer IllMind, it begins with a hefty rock riff prior to introducing some stylish entrapment drums and driving a Jersey-design bassline over which Goyo moves in between a ariose carolers and even more sharp raps easily.

“Within the creative process, it’s important to have a concept, a beginning, and an end,” she states.”But in rap, sometimes you’ll have a punchline that doesn’t have anything to do with the concept but you can make it connect with the next verse. It’s a beautiful game and it’s the thing I most enjoy, that it’s not rigid. That I can start a song melodically and when I get bored, switch to rapping.”

But regardless of the development that she’s gone through and regardless of her job going into a brand-new phase, Goyo verifies that she’s still the Goyo her followers were presented to back in 2006. And as an Afro-Colombiana in a style that, regardless of its Afro-Latine beginnings, has come to be progressively light, she comprehends that the depiction that she’s promoted since her set days is equally as essential currently as it remained in the earlier days of her job.

“I think that the process [by which Afro-Latines find success] is a process that takes time, that maybe in my generation, I won’t see as many changes as the next generation will, but [the work is being done],” she states.”And the important thing is that we are conscious of that work . . . that we understand where we come from and take beauty from that … so that we can keep advancing and make the load lighter for [future generations].”

When it comes to lightening the lots, Goyo has played a substantial duty given that tipping onto the globe phase. Not just did she assist place the traditionally Black area of Chocó on the map, however her ongoing success assisted to make area and offer a plan for the future generation of Afro-Latine artists, revealing them that business and vital success is feasible while still remaining real to your audio and where you originate from.

Yet, for a musician that has currently attained a lot and stands as an ideas to her individuals, Goyo desires her followers to recognize that she’s still obtained even more to accomplish at this phase of her job and is looking ahead to bringing them along for the trip.

“We’re putting a lot of love into the album, “La Pantera,” and I hope that the fans like it and connect with [it] . . . ,” she states. “Something I’ve always wanted to achieve is to have a solo album — to perform, to tour as a soloist and reconnect with the fans who have followed us and also to find along this new route more people to accompany me in the process. Now, I’m able to materialize that dream.”

Now that we have actually obtained you hyped for Goyo’s upcoming task, maintain analysis to obtain the deets on that she would certainly such as to work together with, what she would certainly be doing if she had not been rapping, and what she does cuando la sleeping disorders se la pega.

POPSUGAR: Where is your delighted location?

Goyo: Wherever my family members is.

POPSUGAR: What tune would certainly you play to obtain the event begun?

Goyo: Blessings (Remix) by Victor Thompson.

POPSUGAR: What do you do when you can not rest?

Goyo: Write. Read.

POPSUGAR: Who’s your most paid attention to musician now?

Goyo: Fridayy. I’m fascinated Fridayy

POPSUGAR: Which artists would certainly you such as to work together with in the future?

Goyo: Don Omar. Tego Calderon. And Eladio. He goes incredibly hard.

POPSUGAR: If it had not been songs, what enthusiasm would certainly you commit on your own to?

Goyo: Writing.

POPSUGAR: What was the very best feature of remaining in a songs team?

Goyo: Being the only lady.

POPSUGAR: What was one of the most hard point?

Goyo: Being the only lady.

POPSUGAR: Finally, exactly how would certainly you specify words “Tumbao”?

Goyo: Tumbao is that unique something that I have which you have however is various for everybody.