How Macario Martinez has become viral hit maker from street cleaner

“I always wanted this to happen. I would get up every day in the hope that music will work for me, ”he says. “I knew I had a talent and that my music was deeply connected to the people I shared it. I always knew that I would go far. “

There was a time ago that Martinez would spend all days under a bridge to perform his songs for passers -by and bring 100 pesos (or about 5 US dollars) home to his family. “There was always afraid that I would fail or that my dreams would not come about because I came from my origin, but I never gave up music because it really made me happy,” he says.

When he had a job, he would incorporate the work with music into harmony and write about love, heartache and the time of time. He quotes current joys, spoons and Norweigian singer Aurora as some of the artists who really inspired his art, and he creates nostalgia in many of his songs.

In the past two months, Martinez has focused on creating a basis for his burgeoning career: he now has a team, he has quit his street cleaning job and he has built a fan base to which Silvana Estrada belongs, one of his heroes. Martinez also used the time to perfect the too perfect album he recorded in front of his newly discovered audience, where he records the traditional sounds of South Mexico. Son Jarocho And Huapango.

“I want to give Veracruz's traditional genres visibility and keep them alive so that they are not forgotten,” he says. “I have such a happy feeling every time I make a song, and I have the feeling that I helped me to go through it.”

An upcoming song, “Azul”, contains the strums of Jarana Jarocha from eight strings, mixed with Mariachi, Huapango and Dream pop. “The sea told me it was always you,” he sings on the track and knocks into his musical muse, the ocean. “It's about a person The Person. You may not be in your life anymore, but you really influenced your life and, every time you think of you, generated a feeling. “

Martinez's career just starts, but he is already thinking about how he will give back to the street cleaner family he made before his song Biral became. During a recent public performance, he welcomed his former employees to sit in front of a barricade to see his show. “I want to do something for you and give back,” he says. “My story has changed the perspective of people in Mexico with cleaning workers, and I wear it in my heart.”