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Maluma firar födelsedagen med att släppa det visuella albumet “#7DJ”
Igår fyllde den colombianska superstjärnan Maluma 27 år. Han firade födelsedagen genom att överraska sina fans med det nya albumet “#7DJ” (7 Days in Jamaica). Albumet består av sju låtar som alla fått en tillhörande video som tillsammans utgör en kortfilm där Maluma tar med fansen på en audiovisuell upplevelse genom Jamaica.
Maluma hade länge drömt om att åka till Jamaica och under en sju dagar lång semester förra året inspirerades han till att skriva “#7DJ”. Maluma beskriver resan som att den förändrade hans liv och säger;
"Those seven days in Jamaica came at a time when I needed to escape and decompress as I had intensely worked non-stop on my career for seven years… causing me to question if I should even continue doing music. I did a lot of soul-searching and came back a different person, completely inspired and having realized that music is not just what I do, its part of who I am; how I experience and interpret life”.
På nya “#7DJ” tar Maluma sitt sound i en ny riktning där han blandar sin hyllade latin fusion med reggae och dancehall. Han har samarbetat med några av Jamaicas främsta musiker och artister som Ziggy Marley och Charly Black.
“#7DJ” är producerad av Edgar Barrera "Edge", Johany Alejandro Corral “Nyal” och The Rude Boyz (Kevin “ADG” Jimenez och Bryan Lezcano “Chan El Genio”). Alla låtar är skrivna av Maluma (Juan Luis Londoño) tillsammans med Edgar Barrera, Vicente Barco, Johany Corral "Nyal", Kevin Jimenez, Bryan Lezcano, Miky La Sensa, Ziggy Marley och Charly Black mfl.
Låtlista för “#7DJ" (7 Days in Jamaica)
1. Tónika ft. Ziggy Marley
2. Love ft. Charly Black
3. Chocolate
4. Agua de Jamaica
5. Desayun-Arte
6. La Burbuja
7. Peligrosa
Albumomslaget till "#7DJ" är gjort av den colombianska konstnären Federico Uribe. I skapandet av porträttet på Maluma har Federico endast använt återvunnet material. Konstverket kommer att auktioneras ut och 100% av intäkterna går till välgörenhet och stiftelser som värnar om miljön i Colombia.
Här ser du kortfilmen som tillsammans utgör de sju musikvideor som producerats av 36 Grados för "#7DJ".
Maluma:
Maluma is one of the leading voices in Latin music and a bona fide global youth idol. Born Juan Luis Londoño in Medellin, Colombia, he formulated his artistic moniker Maluma from the first two letters of the names of his mother, father and sister.
The 2018 Latin GRAMMY award winner for Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Album (forF.A.M.E.) is one of social media’s most popular artists with over 23 million Facebook fans, 6 million Twitter followers, and a whopping 56 million Instagram followers, making him the leading Latin male artist on Instagram and the first and only one to surpass 50 million followers. His official YouTube/VEVO channel has more than 26.8 million subscribers, having earned him a YouTube Diamond Play Button Award.
With his Maluma World Tour he has achieved unparalleled success, having sold over one million tickets in 105 worldwide concerts in 2017 alone and becoming the top concert-selling Latin artist in the world. In 2018 and 2019, he broke records achieving full houses in all of his shows throughout the United States and Europe selling out Madison Square Garden (New York), the American Airlines Arena (Miami) and two The Forums (Los Angeles), among others. With his 11:11 World Tour he also sold out Israel's largest venue, Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv (60,000+ audience); made history at the 18th annual Mawazine Festival in Rabat, Morocco, setting an all-time attendance record with his headlining concert in front of 200,000 people; and performed for the first time ever in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in front of 25,000.
In 2018, Maluma entered the fashion scene with his edgy, youthful and authentic look, and style. He has been named a “Menswear Icon in the Making” and “Men’s Fashion’s Newest Muse” by Vogue. In addition, he was one of GQ’s “Men of the Year” in 2019 and continues to gain the fashion support of designers such as Kim Jones (Dior), Jeremy Scott (Moschino), Olivier Rousteing (Balmain), Donatella Versace, Calvin Klein, Christian Louboutin, Louis Vuitton and more. In 2019, he attended the Met Gala for the first time, being one of the first Latin urban artists of this generation to be invited by Anna Wintour. Maluma has also released top campaigns and commercials as the face of global brands such as Moet Hennessy, Michelob and Adidas.
Since joining Sony Music Latin in 2015, Maluma has released five albums Pretty Boy Dirty Boy (2015), F.A.M.E. (2018), 11:11 (2019), Papi Juancho (2020) and 7DJ (2021). Maluma is the youngest artist to simultaneously hold both the #1 and #2 spots on Billboard's Latin Airplay chart and only the sixth act to ever achieve the feat he has now repeated three times. To date Maluma has had twenty #1 singles on Billboard's Latin Airplay chart.
