Camilo’s tremendous and pointed mustache has a history. And no, he has nothing to do with Salvador Dalí.
“The truth was not something planned,” said the Colombian singer of urban music. “About four years ago I had a week where I didn’t want to do anything. So I didn’t shave, I started writing songs and that’s it”.
In that week, his mustache grew faster than all his beard and, “out of curiosity”, he raised it to the sides. She took a photo to make a joke and uploaded it to social networks. People hated his new look and left many negative comments for him. That, far from discouraging him, served as an incentive.
In addition, he has a very powerful reason for leaving it: his wife, Evaluna Montaner, loves it.
At this point, with the fame that Camilo carries on his back, the least important thing is his mustache. He is in the middle of a tour that brings him to Europe, the United States and Latin America. On Friday he will arrive in Los Angeles and tour other cities, including San Antonio, Boston and Washington; then he will return to his native Colombia to end the year with a show in Medellin in December.
At the end of the tour, which will happen in 2023, the family – he, his wife and their baby daughter – will take a couple of weeks of vacation.
Of all this bustle, the cherry on the cake, however, was the concert that Camilo offered on Sunday at the Puerta de Alcalá, the emblematic Madrid monument. There he performed a large part of his repertoire before a capacity of about 80 thousand people. Admission was free.
“Not even in my wildest dreams would I have imagined it,” Camilo said in an interview that he answered in writing because he was in transition between Europe and America. “It was the biggest concert I’ve done so far.”
Camilo also presented his new and third album, “From inside to outside” –also the title of his tour–, in a show with the motto “All accents fit in Madrid”. The show celebrated diversity and had his wife and the Spanish singer Pablo Alborán as guests.
Currently, Camilo promotes his third studio album, the aforementioned “From inside to outside”, an album of urban, pop, bachata and reggaeton music that has exceeded the expectations of the performer, whose career took off about three years ago after he decided to leave. to “defend my music” after years of producing and composing for other artists.
In 2019 he released “No te ir”, “and two years later we can already say that we have three albums under our belt, two incredible tours and La Tribu [mis seguidores] growing more every day”.
In detail
What: Camilo
When: friday 8pm
Where: Microsoft Theater, 777 Chick Hearn Ct., Los Angeles
How: tickets $60 to $230
Reports: axs.com