At this point, Camilo does not need an introduction. At the age of 26, this singer-songwriter, a Latin music star, has more than 11 million followers on YouTube and about 20 million on Instagram.
“Ropa Cara”, his latest single and the third released ahead of what will be his second album, is on track to hit 10 million views on YouTube in less than a week after being released on January 18, as Camilo, By dressed in “Expensive Clothes”, he has stripped his soul in the form of music.
CAMILO FACTOR
Camilo Echeverry was born in Medellín, Colombia, on March 16, 1994, although he lived in Montería from the age of 5. Son of Eugenio Echeverry and Lía Correa, music guided his heartbeat from an early age.
“There was no radio in my house, but we had records from the Beatles, Mercedes Sosa, Pink Floyd, Facundo Cabral, Charly García …” he said in an interview with Efe Miami. “That was my first seed: since I was little, my dream was that legacy,” he explained. It is therefore not surprising that he formed a musical duo with his sister Manuela from a very young age.
In 2006 they participated together in the “XS Factor” competition, but did not reach the final. A year later, however, Camilo came alone to the “talent show” … And he was the winner, which earned him the prize for recording his first “mixtape” as Camilo Echevarry, “Regálame tu Corazón”, which he released in 2008 .
That same year, he performed in a number of soap operas, such as “En los tacones de Eva” and “Súper Pá”, and was also the presenter of the children’s program “Bichos” until 2009, the year in which it toured Colombia and the United States.
Later, in 2010, it was the turn of his next “mixtape”, “Traffic of Sentiments”, which was a success in Colombia and in several Latin American countries. A year later, in 2011, he returned to “Factor XS” as a presenter and to the program “Bichos” until 2014.
SING … AND WRITE
In between, he launched in 2013 “Let me love you today”. After that, Camilo Echevarry decided to put his last name aside to simply be Camilo, change scenes and get behind the lights: he started writing songs for other artists.
“For a long time I wanted to hide behind the scenes or under the stage”, he confessed years later, already the popular artist he is today, when he spoke about this withdrawal in his video “Back to the Game”.
In 2015 he moved to Miami, Florida (USA) and continued that journey with hits like “She no longer has a boyfriend” by Sebastian Yatra with Mau and Ricky (2018), “Veneno”, by Anitta (2018)) or “Sin Pijama” (2019), by Becky G with Natti Natasha.
Other artists he has collaborated with or worked with include: Prince Royce, Daddy Yankee, Bad Bunny, Yandel, Juanes, Bomba Estéreo or Karol G. Sometimes, along with some. Others write for others as an actor of words.
And, for Camilo, “when you write for someone else, you work as a composer but also as an actor, because you write the feelings of someone else. He explained, adding, “I’m Ricky Martin for a while, for another Becky G …”.
BOHEMIAN SUCCESS
Because to see him as an interpreter again, we would have to wait until 2018, when a Camilo with no last name and a long way from that image of a flawless and perfect teenager returned to the spotlight with a much more bohemian and confused image, highlighting on a traditional mustache.
But for this restart, the Colombian did not go alone. He did it in the beginning with Manuel Turizo and Mau & Ricky (his brothers-in-law) with “Desconocidos”, and he repeated it with the duet for “La boca”. The success he achieved with the first song led him to sign a contract with Sony Music Latin.
A year later, in 2019, he released “No te vayas”, his first single as Camilo. For this he had the cooperation of his current wife, then girlfriend, the Venezuelan actress and singer Evaluna Montaner, sister of Mau & Ricky and daughter of singer Ricardo Montaner.
The artist has never spared in his public displays of love for his wife, whom he married in 2020: “forever”, he said on his Instagram when he tattooed her name and published the photo.
Together with her, he feeds his YouTube channel and his social networks, sharing not only music, but also his life and love affair from a “Christian perspective”. Because they want to emphasize “the power of love to improve and bring light to life in difficult moments”.
“Don’t go” was a hit that continues. The video on YouTube has already been viewed more than 250 million times. So, in the midst of the pandemic, his first studio album was released on April 17, 2020 entitled “For the first time.”
It was met with similar success, with 6 Latin Grammys nominations. Among them, he was the winner of the award for “Best Pop Song” with “Tutu”.
DRESS FROM “CARA ROPA”.
And what about the difference between the lyricist Camilo and the singer-songwriter? “If you write through and for yourself, you are 100% yourself, in all your essence,” he confirmed, saying, “if I write for another artist, I can have the song in two hours. It takes weeks for me ”.
That is the essence of it. The packaging is his striking aesthetic: “my girlfriend saw me,” he told Efe in 2019. And it’s that his appearance has garnered a lot of criticism on the internet for being “poorly dressed” according to users, referring to “Vida de Rico “, another of his successes along with” Baby “or” Tutu “.
About this and about his source of inspiration, the singer spoke on his Instagram: “I love how poetic and meaningful the image of God creates us from the simplest and filthiest materials: mud, dust,” he said, in response to a question from a fan about the black spots on his nails: “they remind me at all times the symbolic image of God with hands dirty from clay giving me life.”
Difficult moments like the ones he experienced at the beginning of this year when he lost one of his employees: “Ruper, after several months fighting COVID-19, he went to heaven today and my heart broke into a thousand pieces,” the artist said on Instagram. , “He was the first to hear ‘Vida de Rico’ and I knew it was a good song when I realized it made him dance.”
Now Camilo will release his first single in 2021, “Ropa Cara”. A song that owes its title, as in “Vida de Rico”, to justify the simple life and to criticize superficiality and appearance … And based on the reality of the artist: “it is a song that talks about those mutations that one has and he’s doing for love, however far-fetched they may seem, ”he said in a statement.
“The story took place at a time in my life when I also mutated out of love,” he confessed, explaining, “I have been very open with my gift and what I live and felt it was time to do some. tell about my past “.
A past that they can know in the form of a song because Camilo makes his life and essence music.