The day of the interview with Yng Lvcas, the artist was not in a very good mood, let’s say. His favorite team, Chivas del Guadalajara, had lost the final of the Mexican championship.
“Don’t play that waltz for me; I am in recovery,” Lvcas said with a sorrowful tone. “By telling you that he was wearing the shirt [del Guadalajara] on, but I took it off for the interview.”
The good news is that there were other topics to talk about, and that made him forget, at least for the moment, the sad defeat. Lvcas, whose real name is Daniel Donlucas, was celebrating the premiere of “Six Jewels 23”, an album that outlines him as one of the promises of Mexican urban music.
You just have to see their numbers. With the song “La bebé”, she achieved the impressive number of more than 40 million views on YouTube. But then, in the remix of the same song, Peso Pluma joined, a phenomenon of Mexican urban and regional music, and then Lvcas’ fame exploded.
“We made a good team,” said the singer, originally from Guadalajara but now living in Querétaro, a city very close to Mexico City. “The song is mine, but he came, set up and we took the subject forward.”
Now, he says, his environment is different. Until a few months ago, nobody believed in him, she said. His family, especially his parents, insisted that instead of music, he dedicate himself to studying. But his mother, despite having his doubts, gave him a microphone to record his songs. For a few years, Lvcas did so, until the success of “La bebé” arrived. And recently he premiered the song “Wazap” with Justin Quiles.
The 23-year-old artist is already on one foot in Spain and Italy, where he will travel to offer concerts.
Lvcas, however, did not start out as a reggaeton singer, but as a corrido singer, a genre of which she is a fan thanks to her parents. In 2018 he began to listen to groups that combined the traditional sounds of the corrido with electronic mixes, and he decided to continue with that current.
Now he has production projects with various artists, some trap and others guaracha, a term used to define the genre that combines corrido with electronic music.
“I am versatile,” he said. “I like to do everything; I am not from reggaeton or corrido; I am a musician, and I want to earn my name as an artist”.