I keep messing with it until it gets to the mix table. Sometimes you can’t just change the whole song, but maybe I can change a verse in the very last moment or a chord or the introduction to the song, or the song’s order, some fade-ins or fadeouts. It’s a tough process letting go, saying, “This is it. It’s going to be this way. There were multiple choices, but we’ve chosen this one.” But it’s also a relief because it means you stop wondering. You stop thinking about it and you just let the songs find their own way and say goodbye to them and hello at some point because you’re going to start playing them live and it’s a way to actually get to know your song once you finished it. I usually know. It feels like a release to let go of a song.
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Jorge Drexler
Singer-songwriter and physician
Uruguay · b. 1964
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Born in Montevideo, Jorge Drexler was a busy physician before he decided to become a full-time singer at the age of 30. His musical career catapulted after winning an Oscar for the theme song to the film Motorcycle Diaries . Drexler has lived in Madrid for more than 20 years since his music career took off. He has collaborated with such artists as Caetano Veloso, Shakira, Natalia Lafourcade and Mercedes Sosa.
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