Gloria Trevi bets on music and hope to get out of the “darkness”

Miami, 21 Mar Mexican singer Gloria Trevi sees music as a great way to heal, a catharsis that will allow her to carry a message of “hope” on her journey through the United States with the “Isla Divina” tour, after having fallen into “darkness”. In an interview with Efe in Miami, where he announced that in the second half of this year he will make 40 stops in the US with the tour that currently has her touring Mexico, Trevi said that in moments of introspection to “recount” the damage caused by the pandemic he found the “glow” he now holds on to look into the future. That positive message will be reflected in his concerts, which promises to end “as high as possible”, because that “divine island” that gives the tour its name is the “place where we belong, the one we deserve” as human beings, he stressed. After a tough period in which she lost loved ones due to the coronavirus and others took their own lives due to a depression caused by the pandemic, the singer from Monterrey said that returning to the stage is a mixture of “nostalgia and adrenaline.” Because artists have an obligation, she said, to encourage the spirit and bring a message of hope to her followers, as she wants to do with the “Divine Island” tour in 40 US cities, because when you hit rock bottom that's when you have to “be reborn from the ashes” and that's what she's done. This is what happened to her in 2000, when she bit the “mud” and spent three years in prison on charges of kidnapping, rape and corruption of minors, although she was eventually acquitted and released. But she also rose from that situation and her new show shows that intimate journey through suffering and redemption, because that “divine island” on which the tour revolves, she explained, is inside each person and for two and a half hours of concert she and her audience go from the “darkest” thing to a brilliant illusion. SENSATIONS CONCERTS And he will do so through his own songs, 25 in total, including his greatest hits and those that will be part of his new album, which will be released next April. “My dream is that after the concert you will have an experience that fills you with sensations, and that feeling lasts 24 hours, a week, a month or a lifetime,” said Trevi, who in addition to selling 30 million albums worldwide is known for the strength of her performances. The US part of the Isla Divina tour will begin on August 13 on the so-called Isla del Encanto, Puerto Rico, and will end in Miami with two shows on December 2 and 3. Tickets are already in the pre-sale phase and will be released definitively on the 25th to be able to see them live in places like Las Vegas (September 16), San Antonio (August 21), Denver (October 22) and New York (November 11). Trevi is already working to bring this show to Spain, Central and South America, where he also wants to show the new arrangements he has prepared for classic songs in his repertoire such as “Loose Hair”, with a version “wilder, more African, that encourages you to free yourself”, or “Dr. Psychiatra”, which has a live “super rock” tone. NEW ALBUM Last January, when she toured her native Mexico, she already delivered “La Recaida”, a song composed by Trevi herself and Marcela de la Garza and which, with flamenco influences, is part of the classic pop ballads that have made her famous. The album “Isla Divina” will probably also include “Esayando how to ask for forgiveness” and “We went crazy”, with Guaynaa. And it is expected that it will include more collaborations, which the singer-songwriter regiomontana did not want to reveal yet, although she did say that she continues to stay true to her style. “It is very important to be very honest with my music, with which I communicate to the public, because if I am going to do something that is fashionable or I think it will make money, but I don't agree with the concept, I don't connect, I can't, and if I don't connect I lose everything,” he said. And he will again bet on “having a song for every feeling, for every moment”, but now living them on a divine island, allowing even bad drinks to be seen from a point of view of “hope”.