- The singer recalled that despite having an exclusive contract with TV Azteca, he did not receive any payment.
- Rivera opened up about the bad times he went through while he was part of the company.
Definitive Carlos Rivera Both in his artistic career and in his private life he finds himself in a moment of abundance. However, not everything was rosy. since leaving the Academy in 2004he encountered a harsh reality despite being the winner of the Third generation reality show talent.
The performer, who has just released a new album, has opened up about this phase like never before, revealing the details of his then exclusive contract with TV channel Ajusco, which wasn’t as beneficial for him as he expected. The singer spoke Johnny Abraham for his Conquer Your World podcast, a space where he opened up and talked about how miserable he was during his season at Azteca.
“The academy is a project I will always be grateful for because it changed my life, it changed me and my family too. These 4 months were one of the happiest of my life because I took my first singing lessons, my first dance, acting, drama lessons, it was Disney World for me, what I wanted most in life and didn’t have had it different,” he admitted.
Though things became very different for him after the reality show ended: “I liken it to 12:00 on Cinderella because the other day it wasn’t produced by the TV network anymore. They didn’t know how to deal with the vast majority of us.
I had a lot of expectations and plans, things that never came true. A few months went by and they sat me on a bench.”
Carlos Rivera assured that he had a very bad time for several years: “I couldn’t do everything I wanted because I tried a lot. It was very hard back then, there were many years when I wasn’t doing so well and I started to lose hope a little bit, I started to see my dream further and further away”.
“I see it as a love story; I fell in love, I fell in love, I was happy during courtship, but during marriage it lasted. The worst thing is that in the end it was like: ‘You have to thank me because I loved you, otherwise nobody would have loved you’. I loved it but it wasn’t reciprocated,” he said.
The husband, Cynthia Rodríguez, explained the contract that prevented him from performing as expected: “I had a 9-year contract, but with a contract where they didn’t pay me exclusivity, that is, it was exclusive , but they didn’t pay me anything, sometimes they didn’t, it wasn’t even enough to pay the rent, but hey, I had this contract and there was no way”.
After nearly a decade of fulfilling the contract that prevented her from singing on stages other than those specified by TV Azteca, Rivera was able to take on the projects of her choosing, and that’s how she got into musical theater, which was a stepping stone in her career .
However, before going completely independent, he had to make sure that his relationship with the Ajusco TV channel would end: “We signed an agreement, it wasn’t even a release”, with the singer declaring to make this move. Well, he’d already tried and failed: “I thought, ‘I don’t have to be here, I have to move from place to place.’