This past Thursday, lead singer of Jarabe de Palo, Paul Donés visited NC State.
Radio Host of Arroz con Pollo WKNC, Diego Cancel, and Bienvenidos Staff writer, Miguel Sanchez had the opportunity to interview the famous Spanish singer.
The latin pop/rock band originated in Barcelona in 1996, and rose to fame due to its popular single, “La Flaca”.
Jarabe de Palo held their much awaited concert this past Friday in ‘Motorco’ located in 723 Rigsbee Ave, Durham, as part of their ‘Somos World Tour.’ The tour will culminate with a grand total of 70 shows, which have taken place all the way from Asia to South America, they have been playing from their very beginning. “And we’ve been going for 20 years,” explained Donés. Their Durham show fell on the singer’s birthday, and his fans celebrated his 48th birthday with him.
Donés explained the origin of his band’s name: “It’s a Spanish saying, when you are little and you’re bad, or you don’t eat your soup, your mom tells you ‘te voy a dar jarabe palo’.”
“The saying is very popular, we with our music, try to give a little bit of jarabe de palo to the listeners in the good sense of the word, to their hearts, we try to move people with our songs and on the other side of the coin we are writing our music from the jarabe de palo that life has dealt us.”
Donés went on to talk about what he brings to the Latin American music scene.
“Southern rock is the style that most influences me… in the end I create a remix in my head and create a different style, that which is the style of Jarabe de Palo,” said Pau Donés.