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Watch iLe’s Steamy New ‘Te Quiero con Bugalú’ Video

julio 7, 2016

Ileana “iLe” Cabra knows her away around a romantic bolero, but that’s not the only body-rubbing music the Calle 13 vocalist’s got on her new solo album.

iLe’s latest tribute to vintage Latin style is the hot dance video for “Te Quiero con Bugalú.” The artful and sexy clip was directed by Kacho Lopez, known for beautifully framing the unexpected in his cinematic videos for Calle 13 (“Respira el Momento,” “Ojos Color sol,” “El Aguante”).

The video for “Te Quiero Con Bugalú,” the album’s second single, captures a couple “of a certain age” making love on a dance floor, referencing the abandon of the bugalú era. It’s a tribute to ageless music and ageless attraction. iLe is featured only at the end, the girl mopping up the mess on the floor of the bar after the party’s over.

With her recently released debut album, iLevitable, the 27-year-old performer has taken risks with a record that shuns current trends and remains true to her own tastes, referencing classic songs in a current way. Audiences searching for authenticity will no doubt find it watching her first U.S. concert Thursday night (July 7) at New York’s Highline Ballroom. She performs at SOB’s on Friday, at Philadelphia’s Nuevo Fest on July 10, and in Chicago’s Millennium Park on the July 14.

Billboard.com
por: Judy Cantor-Navas / publicado: 7 de julio de 2016

Calle 13’s Youngest Member iLe Is Finding Hope In Intimacy

julio 7, 2016

In 2007, Calle 13, the Puerto Rican alternative hip-hop duo, released the chart-topping album, Residente o Visitante. The third single — «Pal Norte,» a charged song about migration — began with the strikingly potent voice of the brothers’ little sister, Ileana Cabra. Last month, almost a decade later, the youngest member of the Calle 13 household released her debut album as iLe. Titled iLevitable, it’s a nostalgic reminder of the musical trove of Latin America’s rhythms and genres from which she drew inspiration, while remaining current in its refusal to let go of a critical vulnerability.

Today, iLe releases the video to her album’s ’60s-inspired track «Te Quiero Con Bugalú.» It’s an exhilarating watch, with surreal visuals that explore the way we view sexuality and age, by showing Baby Boomers who grew up listening to bugalú in unapologetically intimate situations. When talking to iLe over the phone as she geared up for her debut solo U.S. tour, she told me about her own views on intimacy and the importance of being emotional in the light of global socio-political turmoil. Just last week, President Obama signed the bipartisan debt-relief bill that will introduce an oversight board in Puerto Rico, as an attempt to salvage the grave $70 billion debt crisis on the commonwealth island. To iLe, it’s not the solution: «This isn’t about making it better, they just want more money.»

iLe, like many Puerto Ricans, see the bill as an attempt to impose more dependency on the island: «We are a colony, they knew this was going to happen. We are a country that has been taught that we are not capable of doing anything.» She draws a comparison between the women of her grandmother and mother’s generation —who often made songs in which women were expected to endure psychological abuse for the sake of love — and Puerto Rico itself, a country that has endured and continues to exist through centuries of colonialism.

«Te Quiero Con Bugalú,» along with the rest of the album, seeks to cut through complacency to get to emotion. «The purpose is give us that opportunity to feel vulnerability and feel fragile, and know that through feeling that way, maybe we can transcend some things and clean ourselves from the inside.»

The Fader
por: Luna Olavarría Gallegos / publicado: 7 de julio de 2016