Last year Valeria Castro published her big debut ‘with love and care’. The public has understood this and since then he has not stopped making himself known with his own music, soundtracks and collaborations. None other than Julieta Venegas, Alejandro Sanz, La Oreja de Van Gogh, Silvana Estrada, Vetusta Morla, Vicente García and Sílvia Pérez Cruz have surrendered to its charms.
Now it’s time to embark on a new stage and his second album is announced along with a 33-date tour spread across Europe, the United States and Latin America, which includes a stop on January 9, 2026 (sic) at the WiZink Center in Madrid, which by Certainly it is renamed Movistar Arena.
The first single from their next album is called ‘la solitude’ and it is our Song of the Day after having conquered us especially during their live performance at an Inverfest party last week. Delaporte, Depedro and Marlena, among others, performed there. Castro only performed one song, alone, on the keyboard, but precisely for that reason it caught our attention more.
The song speaks of something incomplete (“river without a bed”, “flower without spring”), because of a “loneliness” that does not want to “let us go.” The chorus – a simple variable phrase – opens up to the ambiguity of our feelings because of this (“I am clear that I have nothing to lose like this”), while the video adds context.
In the excellent video clip directed by Joana Colomar, actresses such as Bárbara Lennie, Olivia Molina, Macarena García and Irene Escolar appear. They all live their lives alone, whether eating lentils in a restaurant or walking around the city. At the end, when the wind arrangements seek the climax of the song, we see Valeria Castro smile, excited, but happy, riding a bus.
According to the press release, his next album ‘the body after all’ will reflect “a profound artistic and personal evolution embracing maturity, facing fears and emotions with a unique sensitivity that connects with the most intimate feelings of his audience.” She herself says in a press release: “It is an exercise in vulnerability and strength, a puzzle of emotions that reminds us that what is essential, as Saint-Exupéry would say in “The Little Prince”, remains invisible to the eyes.”
