Sebastián Yatra and Aitana Ocaña were, as the title of one of the most famous Colombian songs says, the couple of the year. But they won’t be next. Before the end of 2023, both artists ended their short romance. While there have been many signs in recent weeks that the two had distanced themselves, it is now he who confirmed that the relationship they had for several months has actually ended.
Yatra (Medellín, 29 years old) spends a few days in Mexico and spoke to reporters from the local show Telediario in the capital to confirm the separation. “We love each other very much, we are and will remain good friends for life,” he said in front of the cameras. “At this moment we are both single, each of us goes our own way, but I love her very much and we have lived a very beautiful story this year,” confessed the Colombian artist about his relationship with Aitana (San Clemente de Llobregat, Barcelona ). , 24 years). She also spent a few days in Mexico, where she played to a full house at the city’s National Auditorium last Friday, November 24, to promote her new album called Alpha. In front of the same journalists, he was also happy for his now ex-partner: “I love it, I love that she had this special experience in the auditorium. He deserves it. I adore her.”
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For her part, the singer from Barcelona, one of the most successful voices of the Operación Triunfo 2017 (which also featured Amaia, Ana Guerra and Alfred), has not spoken about her relationship. On Sunday he burst into tears during his concert at the Movistar Arena in Bogotá, Colombia. “I’m not feeling well emotionally today. It’s okay because there are days when I feel good and there are days when I feel better. But what remains in my heart is being here with you in Bogotá. Because in the end, life is about change, and that’s what this song is about,” she explained shortly before singing “The Killers,” a song from this new album and the first full song she composed herself.
Neither Yatra nor Aitana have ever revealed the exact time when their romance began. At the end of 2022, she ended a four-year relationship with actor Miguel Bernardeau, a period during which she was heavily persecuted by the press and even asked them to stop harassing her and to stop standing at the door of her house. Shortly thereafter, she was often seen with Yatra, first for plans with friends – they have known each other for five years, since the artist in the Operación Triunfo and especially after meeting in La Voz – and then with the two of them alone. , both in Madrid, where both live most of the time, and in London or Los Angeles. It was in March when they were seen together at a wedding of artists Lele Pons and Guaynaa in Miami (USA). Right there, on a beach, photographers captured them hugging and kissing in snaps that made their relationship clear.
Aitana and Sebastián Yatra were two of the winners of the evening at the LOS40 Music Awards 2021 in Palma, where they both won awards and posed together.Pepino Marino
At the end of July last year, coinciding with the Independence Day celebrations in Colombia, both traveled together to the country Yatra, where they visited several regions, including the popular coffee region, and where she spent time with his parents, as they showed on their social networks. They then continued their summer with a variety of plans, including spending a few days together on the island of Ibiza.
However, their appearances as a couple have become increasingly shorter in recent months, which has given rise to more and more comments about a separation. She did not go unnoticed at the LOS40 Music Awards Santander 2023 gala as she showed a changed image and a different hairstyle, more modern and daring than what she was used to. When she switched to red hair, some compared her decision to that of Shakira, Karol G and Rosalía, who also dyed the color in some of their respective breakups from Gerard Piqué, Anuel and Rauw Alejandro.
Notably, Yatra did not attend the gala where Aitana became the most awarded artist. Neither did the fact that on November 17 she did not attend the Latin Grammy Awards presented by him, which took place in Seville, where she had been present at an event in a nightclub on the occasion of the release of his album “Alpha Just 24 hours previously (an event he also did not attend). Although she was seen having a meal together in the city, the artist did not attend the world’s most important awards ceremonies for Spanish and Latin American music, which she has attended on other occasions. An unofficial breakup that was officially confirmed just 10 days later.