Stars and ghosts, the song with which David Otero has presented his new album, Natural Intelligence, has an important background. We already told you about the curiosity and interest that the Madrid soloist has had in new forms of communication and how they affect our relationships. But also, the performer wanted to share with all of his followers what the process was like until reaching that song.
Through his official Instagram account, the singer and composer wanted to show his followers that nothing is a matter of luck and that behind a single song there is a gigantic work that does not even begin when the song begins but rather began many years ago. .
David Otero explains in his post how the journey from his adolescence to today through his successful stage in El Canto del Loco has led him to his daily work routines: playing, composing… This, added to the inspiration of the muses and the work with colleagues and professional colleagues, has molded an artist with his own stamp who in 2024 returns to the loads with new music.
This is the creative process of the Madrid native step by step:
“Hello, my name is David Otero and a few days ago we published a song. But… what’s behind a new song? Today I stopped to think about the amount of things I needed to get here, to this very moment where I want to invite you to listen to this song that I published just a few days ago: Stars and Ghosts.
I started playing the guitar at the age of 14 and it has been no less than 30 years rehearsing and playing practically every day. In my case I think that the theory of 10,000 hours falls a little short: they say that to be an expert in something, you must dedicate at least 10,000 hours of study or rehearsal to something and I calculate that I have spent an average of two hours a day. guitar every day during these 30 years, doubling that number of hours, and yet, I do not consider myself a scholar.
I’ve been composing all my life. I have filled notebooks and notebooks with song lyrics, composing non-stop and writing lyrics from school recess, until today. I have created songs with my colleagues from El Canto del Loco, with friends who, like me, are dedicated to pursuing their dreams. But my most common way of writing is alone, in my room as a child. In my car when I was still a young man who was struck by inspiration in the middle of the night and couldn’t sing at home because I still lived with his parents. Or as I usually do, in my studio, which is how this song was born.
To get to this song I have previously published around 200 songs, both for my project and for other artists. But to be able to publish those almost 200 songs I must have composed thousands and thousands of ideas, demos and fragments that will never see the light of day and that will remain hidden on hard drives forever.
To give shape to this song, I worked on it for almost a year, changing structures, looking for new melodies, finishing finding the meaning of the lyrics with my beloved Funambulist. Once we had the composition focused, we spent two days rehearsing with my band in Tato Latorre’s studio where Carlos, Mayte and Manolo put their magic to make it grow and finish forming. When everything was ready, we moved to Studio One to record the final version and we ended up mixing and mastering it with the best professionals in the industry.
We racked our brains with our “Nocturna” creative team to find the best cover and the best video clip and we closed the process the day we launched it to fly on its own. With our work teams from Altafonte and Be the one Media, Marina Roveta and BMG, we look for the best way to reach you, fighting like someone sailing in the middle of the marketing storm with a small boat that longs to reach your door, your ears. . We create a future full of concerts together with the RLM team to soon reach a stage where you will be enjoying that song and singing it at the top of your lungs the day we play near you. I rehearse it every day waiting for that moment to come.
So what’s behind a song? Well, behind a song there is a whole life.”.
