Best known as the frontwoman for acclaimed Colombian Latin alternative band… Read Full Bio ↴Best known as the frontwoman for acclaimed Colombian Latin alternative band Aterciopelados, Andrea Echeverri has long captivated audiences with her potently melodic brand of feminism. On March 8th, her debut solo album Andrea Echeverri will be released by Nacional Records, the new Warner Music Group-distributed label focused on promoting the best in Latin alternative music.

After the critical and commercial success of 2001's "Gozo Poderoso", which landed Aterciopelados on the Top 10 of the Billboard Top Latin Albums Sales chart as well as a coveted appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Echeverri took time off for the birth of her first child Milagros, who has proven to be a new point of artistic inspiration. The result is the self-titled album Andrea Echeverri, Andreas first solo release. The disc was produced by Hector Buitrago from Aterciopelados and mixed by Thom Russo (Juanes, Kinky, Johnny Cash), and also features a remix from Richard Blair (Sidestepper).

On "A Eme O", the albums upbeat first single, Echeverri observes the bond between mother and daughter as Milagros cries late at night. "Some songs are written for Milagros, but they sound like they're written for a lover," said Echeverri. Going ever further, she satirizes the highly sexualized lyrics of the Colombian genre called champeta, naming one of the albums tracks Lactochampeta. Its kind of a joke, because it has explicit lyrics about lactating.

After a recent series of successful tour dates (including headlining the Latin Alternative Music Conferences Women Who Rock concert in front of 10,000 people at the Santa Monica Pier, as well as the recent La Banda Elastica Magazine Awards), Andrea Echeverri looks forward to spending additional time visiting U.S. markets this spring in support of her new album on Nacional Records. With a backing band featuring members of Aterciopelados, longtime fans of the group can also look forward to new interpretations of Aterciopelados classics.

Quitapesares
Andrea Echeverri Lyrics

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Agradecida
Con las cosas que me ha dado la vida
Iluminada
Con la música sintonizada
Expansiva
Una bomba de buena energía
Favorecida por una clave de sol
Este micrófono

Es mi barita mágica
Este micrófono
Es mi barita mágica
Para conjurar
Librarte de todo mal
Librarte de todo mal
Espíritu de la música
Apoderate de mi
Que sea yo el instrumento tu sonido tu alimento que cure todas tus penas que te acaricie por dentro
Que nos sintamos contentos
A ser hermanos
En un solo sentimiento
Y compartir
Espacios palabras y gestos
Espíritu de armonía
En tu flujo sumergida
Si todos somos iguales
Porque tratarnos como rivales
Mejor te trato a ti
Como quisiera que me trataras tu a mi mejor te trato a ti
Como quisiera que me trataras tu a mi
Parientes compatriotas y vecinos
Hagamos las pases
No te dejes deslumbrar
Por los espejos nada vallas a canjear
Por que es por los tronares
Que se oigan los mejores cantares
Por que es por los tronares
Que fluya la alegría de audares
Porque por los tronares
Por ese falso oropel no nos compares
Por que es por los tronares
Habré bien los ojos para que te aclares
Porque es por los tronares
Que crece la hiervita quitapesares
Porque es por los tronares
Que todo es tan bonito
Ojalá de los de acá
Nunca te separes
Por que es por los tronares
Que se oigan los mejores cantares
Porque es por los tronares
Que fluye la energía de audares
Porque es por los tronares
Con ese falso oropel no nos compares
Por que es por los tronares
Habré bien los ojos para que te aclares
Por que es por los tronares
Que crece la hiervita quitapesares

Porque es por los tronares
Que todo es tan bonito ojalá de los de acá nunca te separes

Overall Meaning

The song "Quitapesares" by Andrea Echeverri is a joyful and uplifting anthem about gratitude, music, and harmony. In the first stanza, Echeverri expresses her gratitude for the things that life has given her and how music has illuminated her world. She describes herself as a "bomba de buena energía," or a bomb of good energy, and recognizes that she has been favored by the music that comes from a treble clef. The following lines of the first and second stanzas are dedicated to her microphone, which she considers her "barita mágica," or magic wand. With it, she conjures up positive energy and dispels negativity from her life.

Line by Line Meaning

Agradecida
Thankful

Con las cosas que me ha dado la vida
For the things life has given me

Iluminada
Illuminated

Con la música sintonizada
With music tuned in

Expansiva
Expansive

Una bomba de buena energía
A bomb of good energy

Favorecida por una clave de sol
Favored by a treble clef

Este micrófono
This microphone

Es mi barita mágica
Is my magic wand

Para conjurar
To conjure

Librarte de todo mal
Free you from all evil

Espíritu de la música
Spirit of music

Apoderate de mi
Take my power

Que sea yo el instrumento tu sonido tu alimento que cure todas tus penas que te acaricie por dentro
Let me be your instrument, your sound, your food, that cures all your sorrows, and caresses you inside

Que nos sintamos contentos
Let's feel happy

A ser hermanos
To be brothers

En un solo sentimiento
In one single feeling

Y compartir
And share

Espacios palabras y gestos
Spaces, words, and gestures

Espíritu de armonía
Spirit of harmony

En tu flujo sumergida
Drowned in your flow

Si todos somos iguales
If we are all equal

Porque tratarnos como rivales
Why treat each other as rivals

Mejor te trato a ti
I treat you better

Como quisiera que me trataras tu a mi mejor te trato a ti
As I wish you would treat me, I treat you better

Parientes compatriotas y vecinos
Relatives, countrymen, and neighbors