Carlos Vives and Ricky Martin have teamed up to create “Canción Bonita”, their first collaboration.

The new single was released Tuesday night with a vibrant music video shot in San Juan’s historic district and on the beach in Puerto Rico.

“If anything, we’re more childish than the new generation,” Martin told Billboard about the inspiration for the song. “We’re never going to change. We’re laid back. We’ve achieved nice things in life. We don’t have to prove anything to anybody.”

Ricky Martin released the quarantine-themed album Pausa last year. In an interview with Rolling Stone last September, he revealed that he initially had other plans for the album: “In my mind, the album was going to be called Movimiento, which means movement. But with all this [pandemic], I was like… ‘The way it was, it wasn’t working. Let’s do it another way.’ I have music with a beat, but I wasn’t going to tell people to move. So I called it Pause.”

“We don’t want to change. We want to be the same people. And this song is a declaration of love to a city that I love. And it’s one of Ricky’s cities. For me to have a piece of Ricky in this song…it’s total happiness.”

added Vives

The Latin star plans to release the follow-up to Pausa, the album Play, in late 2021, and told Ellen Degeneres in June that he is going to “bring all those funky Latin sounds” to the album. Pausa is the follow-up to Martin’s 2015 Grammy-winning album A Quien Quiera Escuchar.

Carlos Vives released his latest album Cumbiana in 2020, his 14th album after 27 years in music. These songs feature collaborations with guest artists such as Ruben Blades, Alejandro Sanz, Jessie Reyez, Ziggy Marley and Elkin Robinson.

@juanse-contreras Fuente : CLAIRE SHAFFER – Rolling Stone