“Three years ago I had a very bad time with anxiety. I went to a psychologist and he told me that I had depersonalization. It’s hard to explain, but I felt like I wasn’t living a real life. Now my life is literally like being in a dream. So, imagine, success is complicated but I’m doing well.” Miguel Cantos (Granada, 2002) speaks, although everyone knows him as My mind.
He is the fashionable boy in music and they already refer to him as the new Quevedo, with whom, by the way, he maintains a close friendship. She has cast up to four songs on the current Spotify Spain hit list, more than nine million people listen to her every month and each song she releases becomes hit Instantly. A year ago he was a complete stranger to the general public, just another singer and producer between rap and Latin rhythms; now all the stars want to count on him. How did you get here? Where does this meteoric success come from?
We met in Madrid on a hot day at the end of June, just turned 21 years old. He arrives with Andrés, a friend turned manager. Saiko -whose name is a phonetic adaptation to Spanish of English psycho [psicósis]- tells that he already has a team of nine people working on his project. He is a kind and friendly boy. The spotlights have not devoured him nor does he go on lead feet when responding. He gives his opinion freely and is sincere in every issue that comes up. “I’m a normal kid even though they don’t treat me like that anymore. I’m not a robot and I’m not going to be a pop star of these roses. Just as you have done or said things, I do and say things “, she will come to point out during the hour of talk.
He doesn’t know exactly where he will sing next week or what city he will travel to in two. She is only clear that it is her time and that she cannot miss it. “In September everything will be quieter and I’ll lock myself in the studio again, which I’m looking forward to,” she says. Just two days after our appointment, she will appear by surprise at the WiZink Center in front of 15,000 people invited by the world star Feid at the Colombian concert in Madrid. Together with him, Quevedo y Mora published a month ago the remix of Polarisa song that already adds more than 100 million listeners between Spotify and YouTube in its two versions and that it has been decisive in turning his life upside down.
“At 14 I recorded my first song in the studio of Antonio Narváez, who is the producer of Dellafuente, my idol. My brother took me and that day I felt magic, I fell in love with this”, he begins by remembering. He kept writing his songs until he turned 18… “I threw a triple with my mother and it went well”account.