Quevedo, the musician who has sold the most albums in Spain in 2023 and who led the world playlists on Spotify, has decided to pause his career, disconnect from social networks and open a hiatus that he himself promises will be temporary.
“2021 sow, 2022 collect, 2023 crown, 2024 disappear,” says the lyrics of ‘Now What’, published last year, where it already anticipated what has ended up happening. But the Canary Islander wanted to say goodbye to his fans in the best way: with a new song called ‘La Última’.
“I was missing one thing to do and here it is,” he announced this Wednesday on his Instagram account, generating great expectation among his fans after the announcement of his retirement.
With ‘La Última’, the Gran Canarian, only 22 years old, wanted to reflect all the greatness of fame, but also its counterparts. “I need to lose everything to return to point zero and remember what it cost to get out of the hole” or “Fame and all that shit, that’s something temporary” are just some of the verses that the rapper has captured in this latest installment from who reached the top with ‘Quédate’ by the Argentine producer Bizarrap, which led them to triumph at the Latin Grammys for Best Urban Song.
Quevedo has also said goodbye in style in his video clip accompanied by friends and artists who have collaborated with him throughout his short, but intense, career. Lola Índigo, Omar Montes and Saiko are just some of the faces that appear in the video and that have collaborated with the artist on previous occasions.
“I’m not a machine,” the young singer justified last week in a live connection with his followers on Instagram made just one year after the publication of ‘Where I want to be’, his first album.
That album that sparked so many comments, among other things, for this fragment of ‘Now What’, one of its songs: “2021 sow, 2022 collect, 2023 crown, 2024 disappear.”
“It has been an incredible year and I know that everyone was wondering the typical thing, about the phrase ‘2024…’ and all that. Well, I had to do what I had to do, now I have finished it and it’s time to give myself some vacation, people,” the rapper said.
Pedro Luis Domínguez Quevedo —he of the signature “LPGC, you know”, omnipresent in his songs— stressed that they should not even look for him on their social profiles, because he will disconnect. His Instagram account, where he has 3.3 million followers, now appears with just two posts to announce the premiere of ‘The Last’.
“Don’t expect anything from me,” he repeated. Although she did warn that before closing the stage of ‘Where I want to be’ she had a “gift for you.”
In the last year, Quevedo has captured number 1 in several countries and has received awards such as the Latin Grammy for Best Urban Song (for his session with Bizarrap, renamed by his followers as ‘Quédate’) or a Los 40 Music Award for best urban artist of 2023.
The singer himself sums it all up as “crazy.” “Since ‘Cayó la noche’ came out I haven’t stopped”, in reference to the collective theme of 2021 with several singers from the Canary Islands urban scene that made him known and launched a rise that became meteoric thanks to his collaborations with Ed Sheeram and Bizarrap.
“I’ll still be back very soon and maybe with an album, but people have to understand that making albums is not like that (snaps his fingers at the camera). If we want to make something of quality and that makes sense, it takes time,” he added during direct.