TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras.- the singers Camilo Echeverri i Evaluna Montaner they recently released their song “Machu Picchu”, And although in a few hours it was already accumulating millions of views on major platforms, the reaction of many people was not what they expected.
The title of the song alludes to the citadel located in Peru, but the Peruvians lamented that the lyrics do not describe in the slightest what the world wonder has to offer.
“I have more ruins than Machu Picchu, I destroyed a thousand planets with things I said And how was it that you noticed something that was anything but a work of art? “, Says the only verse of the song where the name of the ancient Inca world is mentioned.
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Social media has been flooded with messages like, “Why did you name Machu Picchu if you only named it once?”, “Camilo only uses my beloved heritage to refer to it as ruins when it has a very symbolic historical context for to the Peruvians “,” The best part of Machu Picchu of Camilo is when the parents “, among others.
However, the Colombian singer stepped out and defended the name of the song he recorded in collaboration with his wife: “Machu Picchu it is named in a single part of the song, but is an invitation to the aesthetics of the entire song. Machu Picchu is one of the wonders of the world and they are beautiful ruins … (I mean) she saw something in me that I had not seen. I thought it was simple ruins, but she saw in me something like what we see in the ruins of Machu Picchu, ”she explained.
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He added that the composition also represents his gratitude to the Andean community, from whom he has received much support and therefore included the charango and its traditional looms.