Before recording a new version of his hit 'Loquita' with Jay Wheeler, Randy Ortiz turned down offers to remake it with Anuel AA and Bryant Myers: 'I wanted someone who would make it different and rich'
The timing is also right. When it comes to R&B in Spanish, Randy has been ahead of the curve. He pushed for the sound on his early solo projects, like on 2015’s smooth, but he remembers feeling alone in his efforts. “The radio stations would get bored, they’d get tired, and they’d go, ‘That’s not going to hit,” he remembers. However, a new generation of newcomers interested in R&B — including Rauw Alejandro and Dalex, who both appear on the album — havethat Randy always knew was there.
It’s an ambitious project that we spent hours and hours on. Every track had to have its own identity and a unique richness so that people would go, “Wow. What a song.” We didn’t do this for money or to keep pace with anything in the industry — it was more important to me than that. It was about making art, and this album feels like an exhibition to me.
I’ve learned so many things. It’s been 21 years as a duo, with so many hours working really hard, but I always said, “Let me get ready for my own art little by little. It won’t happen yet, but I know it’s going to.” Ever sinceall of those songs from 2007, I knew I had to clear a path for myself and make things happen. I knew it wasn’t going to be easy, especially because the qualities that make Jowell & Randy are so strong.
When I was five, I started listening to artists from Motown Records. I lived with my aunt and she had a full collection of the best of Motown, the best R&B artists from the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties. And then when the Barrio Boys, who had such a big impact on Spanish R&B, came out, I was like 11 or 10, and I said, “What a sound in Spanish. We can listen to the kind of style Motown does in our language.
And specifically with Jay Wheeler, you’ve recreated your hit “Loquita,” from 2011. Why did you choose to remake that track with him?
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