Spain: Blas Cantó collaborates with Echosmith in his new single 'Americana'

Sunday, 01 August 2021

• The Spanish Eurovision 2021 representative, Blas Cantó, has released his new single 'Americana' in which he teams up with internationally known band Eschosmith.

  The Spanish star two months after his participation in Rotterdam is back with a brand new song 'Americana', this time in collaboration with the internationally sucessful band Echosmith.

  Echosmith is an American indie pop band formed in February 2009 in Chino, California. Originally formed as a quartet of siblings, the band currently consists of Sydney, Noah and Graham Sierota, following the departure of eldest sibling Jamie in 2016. Echosmith started first as "Ready Set Go!" until they signed to Warner Bros. Records in May 2012.They are best known for their 2013 song "Cool Kids", which reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified triple platinum by the RIAA with over 1,200,000 sales in the United States and also double platinum by ARIA in Australia

  Blas Cantó's new summertime song is penned in English and Spanish lyrics. Canto's new track is catchy and conveys a summer mood vibe. It talks about love talks about love likening it to an American movie.  The song has been written by Jeffery David, Leroy Sanchez, and Sydney Sierota. 

  The music video serves the same message, actually look like a clip of an old american movie.

   

  This not the first time that Blas is marking his presence into the international music scene. Previously he has featured the Spanish version of Kelly Clarkson’s song “I Dare You“.

   

  A few words about Blas Cantó

  Blas Cantó is a Spanish singer born on October 26, 1991. He came to fame as member of the Spanish group Auryn, but since 2017 has followed a solo career. In 2000, at the age of 8, he had participated in the children’s  talent show Veo Veo . Back in 2004 he competed in the Spanish national final , Eurojunior, for the Junior Eurovision with the song “Sentir“, but came second behind María Isabel, who eventually won that year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

  In 2009, ο Cantó he founded the boyband Auryn alongside with Álvaro Gango, Carlos Marco, David Lafuente and Dani Fernández. In 2011,the band competed in the country’s national final  Destino Eurovisión  and reached the top 3 placings but Lucía Pérez was the one to win the golden ticket to Dusseldorf.

  After Auryn’s participation in Destino Eurovisión came their first single “Breathe in the Light” in 2011,followed by their debut album Endless Road, 7058 in 2012. Both reached top 10 positions on the Spanish charts. Next album in 2013 was entitled  Anti-Heroes which topped the spanish charts and went platinum. The boyband’s thrid album  Circus Avenue also topped the charts remaining in the first place for five consecutive weeks. Just even months before the group break up they released their fourth album Ghost Town in December 2015.

  Not long after Auryn announced that they are breaking up as its members had opted for solo career. Cantó released his debut single “In Your Bed” on March 3 the same day the  Tu Cara Me Suena  final took place.

  On March 9, 2018, released his spanish  single “Él no soy yo” while on 14 Speptember 2018 he released his first solo album entitled Complicado, topping the Spanish Album Charts.

  In 2020 Blas was internally selected to represent Spain at Eurovision 2020 with his song "Universo". Unfortunately the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic and the Spanish act never had the chance to perform his enty in Rotterdam Ahoy. 

  After inviting back Blas Canto for this year's contest, RTVE decided this year to hold the national selection, the Eurovision gala Destino Eurovisión,  in which the audience had to choose between two songs, o"Memoria" and "Voy a quedarme". Eventually the public opted for the ballad song "Voy a quedarme"

  Blas performed his ballad song in Rotterdam and despite his sensational performance, finished 24th place on the Grand final scoreboard: