ALEJANDRO SANZ TO RELEASE "PALMERAS EN EL JARDÍN" FIRST SINGLE WITH SONY MUSIC
MIAMI (October 24th, 2024) – Alejandro Sanz is back and stronger than ever. In yet another display of his creative genius, he releases “Palmeras en el jardín,” first single off his new album and first with Sony Music. The song, available worldwide today 25 October, bears Sanz’s unmistakable stamp and the emotional poetic display that has made him the most awarded Spanish artist and one of the most widely admired on the international scene. Listen HERE.
“Palmeras en el jardín” comes with one of those music videos that have always been a hallmark in his career. Directed by Greg Ohrel (Bad Bunny, Juanes) and produced by former Calle 13 member Residente, the video was shot in Madrid and Miami. The piece is brimming with creativity and visual effects that elevate the song to another dimension. It is the perfect audiovisual mise-en-scène to illustrate a song that marks the beginning of a new album, due to be released next year.
Produced by Latin GRAMMY® winners Casta (Manuel Turizo, Karol G) and Spreadlof(Sebastián Yatra, Shakira, Rosalía), and featuring mixing by multi-award-winning Lewis Pickett (Juanes, Carlos Vives, C. Tangana); “Palmeras en el jardín” is a testament to Sanz’s enduring creativity.
Alejandro Sanz, who has just won the prestigious Billboard Lifetime Achievement Award, is the Spanish artist who has received the most awards in history, with 22 Latin GRAMMYs® and four GRAMMYs® to his name, among many other accolades. Since his debut in 1991 “Viviendo deprisa” to his latest studio album, SANZ, released in December 2021, he has taken the world’s stages by storm, with more than 25 million records sold and all his albums certified with multiple Platinum Records.
Sanz is not only a music legend, but he is also known as a socially committed artist. Over the years, he has collaborated with organizations such as Save the Children and Greenpeace and has even taken his environmental activism to international forums such as COP25.
Boasting a career spanning more than three decades and with an influence that transcends borders, he remains one of the biggest and most beloved names on the music scene. “Palmeras en el jardín” is set to continue his legacy of great success and delight his millions of fans around the world.
It is worth noting that Alejandro Sanz has marked and inspired many generations. Among them is renowned poet Elvira Sastre, who has not hesitated to be part of this project, by expressing her feelings about this new stage of Alejandro Sanz and “Palmeras en eljardín.” Sastre, known for her intimate and emotional style, has managed to bring contemporary poetry to a young audience, combining both personal and poetic elements in a unique and poignant way.
Her stylistic connection with Alejandro is captured in the following writing:
Coming back involves so many things that it is not easy to sum it up in a few sentences. You go back to your childhood, you go back to your habits, you can go back to a person, or you can go back to yourself after a long journey. Coming back is a complex, time-consuming movement involving patience and a great deal of awareness. When you return, you do not do so alone: you come back with new experiences, other kinds of pain and damage, joys that make it somewhat easier, certain fears, yes, but also courage to take one step after the other to retrace what you have known. Sometimes you need a companion to guide you. On other occasions, loneliness is enough to discover what you were unable to see while it was happening. Whatever happens, however it happens and wherever it takes you, coming back is always a journey of honesty because to do otherwise means getting lost.
Alejandro Sanz gets back to his origins, to his roots, and only he alone knows what this return involves. He does so with the intention of one who has faith in what is truly meaningful to him, and it is this faith that illuminates the way back. Alejandro is music, but above all he is words, and throughout his career he has used whatever he had in his hand to express what he feels and needs to tell. Poetry is his language and this song, Palmerasen el jardín, is a look through that poetic language. There is no other way to see it: Alejandro has always expressed himself through beauty, and he does so again in this work.
At the root is the seed of who you want to be. It is a memory, and identity in its purest form. Going back to it involves getting your hands dirty, digging through the dry soil, trudging through the mud until you find life again. Sharing with others where the root lies is a generous act. In a superficial world, discovering what is profound is proof of hope.
This song, Palmeras en el jardín, is such a find. One line after another is much more than just two sentences and it is a sign. It has it all: powerful images, the echo of recognition of what cannot be and leaves its meaning in our hands, that raspy voice amplified as it asks questions, the accompanying precise notes, the distance between what could have been and what was not. Sowing the seed of a palm tree, watering it, wishing it to sprout, watching it grow, sleeping under its shade and then leaving it to be and live where it deserves is something that only those who know that life is always a return journey know how to do.
Maybe this song is what we need: a naked soul that writes and sings of what it was so that, in a masterful movement, it can be again.