Chilean singer-songwriter Benjamín Walker to share his renewed energy at FIP

Published November 11th, 2021

As part of the Puebla International Festival (FIP), Chilean singer-songwriter Benjamín Walker (Santiago, January 3, 1992) will offer a concert that signifies “the consecration” of the symbolic relationship he has established with Puebla, as it has been, perhaps, the city where he has shared his music the most.

As part of his Mexican tour that will take him to cities such as Querétaro, Xalapa, Veracruz, Córdoba, Mexico City, and San Miguel de Allende, in addition to his return to Chile in December and his stay in Argentina in February 2022, the musician will perform for free this Thursday, November 11 at 6 p.m. at Paseo Bravo, alongside Nicolás Sotomayor and Hakanna.

Having been in Mexico for a few months now, with the song Quiero Verte Hoy, which he recorded with Tijuana’s Vanessa Zamora, the video for his new single Querernos Bien and the upcoming release of his album Libro Abierto in December, Walker says that his stay in the country has given him back his energy.

Especially, he notes during an interview, after a year and a half of not performing in public and crossing the epidemic caused by Covid-19. “With all that energy and with less anguish I’ve grown, I’ve become energized and there’s been a lot of self-love for me.”

Sure that music, its writing, and interpretation, is a necessity to exist, he recalls that during the contingency he dedicated himself to composing to live then a period of many changes that brought him to Mexico, a country that he conceives as a “meeting platform” that has led him to live and work with other musicians of his generation.

About Libro Abierto, his next album, he indicates that it is personal, as he writes out of necessity, music being his existential outlet and his only concern. “I have been concerned with delivering all my being and all the meaning.”

He pointed out that the album started in 2019, with songs made before the popular revolt in Chile, so if to that social outburst is added the epidemic, for him, “the world changed two or three times”. Therefore, he trusts, it is a “rare” album that drags another era, nevertheless, they are songs that he still defends and make sense to him. “It’s an album that aged well, it makes me curious to feel the songs, to have to belong with them to interpret them”. Libro Abierto is, he says, “a pretense of wanting to live at the moment to what happens, so it will be a diverse journey, with different anecdotes, and its richness is its diversity”.

In the concert this Thursday, November 11, which will take him to share the stage with singer-songwriter Gerardo Pablo from Puebla and Argentine Sofía Campos, Benjamín Walker points out that he and his band, after two years of not playing together, will share part of that vital energy.