the merenguero wings jaza He spoke about the change he needed to make seeing the number of followers on his social networks, which he started thinking about when he made a release.
One of those changes that Ala Jaza pointed out was the content he used to post videos featuring Old Mime, the grandmother of one of his team members, which he found “funny,” but he understood it wasn’t beneficial was a facebook account instagram with so many followers.
“What happened is that I can’t upload it anymore because it (mime) contains a lot of swear words. So once I connected with the public I had about a million followers, I uploaded something of her saying bad words and I understood that I can’t upload such things because I’m child- followers and I changed because I understood that it had to be an example”.
The singer agrees that all people who reach a certain level of influence are “measuring themselves because you have an open Instagram that every kid has access to,” and defines it as unfair that they’re trying to influence them at home to educate, “being on Instagram”. listen to other things.
Nominated for the Soberano Awards
Ala Jaza, who has two nominations (Merenguero de Calle 2021 and 2022) in the next edition of the Soberano Awards, which will reward both years, says that he would like to win, but “it’s the people and the chroniclers who decide. “
“My job is to speak and I’ve worked a lot.” During a visit to LISTÍN DIARIO, he told us about the tours, songs and concerts he was allowed to perform in 2021 and 2022, which put him above the other colleagues with whom he shares a category.
The musician, good lover of bachata, premiered “La Corona” in April 2022, in addition to the wide repertoire that he offers at his parties, where he delights his audience with a tribute to this rhythm. He is also preparing the release of a full album of unreleased bachatas, of which “What did you return?” is available on all digital platforms.
That same year, the creator of MamWali continued to prove himself complete when he presented a corrido and salsa titled “Where are they?”. or “Nasa”. In addition to the tour, with which he said goodbye to his 2022 in Honduras, where he performed with his entire orchestra, which he will soon do in Central America and the United States, bringing all his musicians to US territory for the first time.
“I’ve always felt like a bachatero at heart.”
Ala Jaza said that in his early days as an engineer, producer and bass player in New York, he “went through two or three tours with Aventura and was also in Grupo Optimo” until he returned to his native Jarabacoa, La Vega, in 2009. , in the north of the Dominican Republic, to work from there as a soloist on his own musical project, which has spread throughout the country and other parts of the world, achieving the long-awaited hit ten years later.
His musical legacy
Ala Jaza plays a variety of instruments including conga, drums, guitar and piano. He limited himself to saying, “These are gifts from God, these are things from God Himself, I don’t even know.”
In this sense, he confessed that his father Rafael (Raffy) Cabrera was known for his duet with Nando Galán in You Missed the Appointment.
On YouTube, where he has more than 700,000 subscribers, in December 2021 Alá Jazá published an emotional video with his father, giving him the opportunity to reminisce about the times when he shared the stage with Nando.
On Spotify, Ala Jaza was also very well received, reaching 167,416 monthly listeners for his songs “Mi persona favorita” (900,000), “La corona” (5.9 million), “Sobrio” (3.4 million), medley to Fernando Villalona, ”Policía” and “Dos locos” ft. Olga Tanon.
“Digital platforms are very important for any artist right now and for that reason I have oriented myself and have my team for this led by my label Casa Talento Music which I thank and although there have been other offers he continues with them because we have worked well together so far and we have to be grateful for that.”