Embracing the bridge that unites the Canary Islands with the tradition of Latin American song, St. Peter is running for victory in the third Benidorm Fest with the theme Two Strangers (String Quartet) while running a legend about the origin of his career and how strongly he is able to invest in his music.
«I neither confirm nor deny. “I want to create a myth and the story is very cool,” he limits himself to answering the question of whether he boycotted his chances of victory in the 2017 La Voz final in exchange for signing with Rosalía’s representative, Rebecca León, to who he met thanks to his then coach in the program, Juanes.
Whether it’s true or not (“It wasn’t so exaggerated, those who know us both can believe it perfectly,” he adds), for him that moment in which his career was yet to take off has little to do with the current moment and with the responsibility that comes with being able to win and represent Spain in Eurovision 2024.
«When what happened to me The voice I thought of myself first, but now I am aware that I represent my country. That is something much bigger than your career and for me the price you have to pay is keeping your word,” says Pedro Hernández (Tejina, Tenerife, 1996). one of the 16 participants in the third edition of Benidorm Fest.
From his four previous years in Miami, where he ended up after leaving The voice, He says that they were an “intensive course in life”, where he worked with “very great” and at the same time “very humble” people, but where he also learned that “the world is not pretty and that you have to be grateful for what you have.”
«When I returned to Tenerife, everything started to work well», celebrates his return to his homeland with a rarity on the market such as an album of Christmas classics and several singles, especially ‘r&b’ and ‘soul’ music, among them Malapami, with more than a million listens on Spotify.
“When I returned to Tenerife, everything started to work well,” he celebrates upon returning to his homeland.
After seven months of working in a studio in the Canary Islands, he affirms that his involvement in the official Eurovision catwalk in Spain came in a “natural” way. “Half of my next studio album was prepared and, when the bases were opened, we all realized that it was for Benidorm Fest, although we left the decision on the subject in the hands of people we trust,” he recalls, after acknowledging that The doubt was mainly between two songs.
One of them remains unpublished and the other was the delicate Two Strangers (String Quartet), whose strength lies in his opinion that it came out easy, “because it goes through personal moments and comes from a very deep and very real place.”
It also represents the consolidation of his recent change in stylistic register, from a music that is equally melodic, but more black and urban, to one that, as in the case of Guitarricadelafuente or Valeria Castro, connects its own roots with the bases of traditional Latin American songs, between merengue and salsa.
«For me it has been a natural turn. Before I didn’t feel like myself, it was a time of absorbing knowledge and experiences, but when I returned to the Canary Islands and met up with my lifelong friends with whom I made music, we connected with our essence from when we were little,” he explains.
That’s what his album will be about, he advances, “why Canarian culture is the way it is and where that mix comes from”, also convinced that “traditional music is still ‘soul’, only with the cultural differences of Latin America.” ». “I don’t feel like I sing anything different now, but I do feel like I sing better since I sing like that,” he confirms proudly.
He refrains from commenting on the possible scenery, which he has fully planned, after pointing out that his time in The voice It has helped him know what television is like. “Although as formats, they have nothing to do with each other: Benidorm Fest focuses a lot on the song, the artist and the fandom, which is incredible,” he highlights.
