Not to put you on the spot in the East Coast vs West Coast ongoing
debate, but you’ve lived in New York and now you’ve recorded in LA which city is more Juan Ricondo and why?
LA is more Ricondo. Suits me better. I love NYC, it made me understand America in a different way
and it was my first contact with this country. It was also easier to adapt myself to NYC cause I was
living in Madrid for almost ten years and they have similarities. But like every big city it’s lonely. What I
call, “assisted loneliness”. You’re surrounded by many people but you feel lonely. But like Madrid, NYC
helped me understand and discover more about myself.
LA was not love at first sight like NYC, but it grew on me. The weather is something that, for a Spanish
guy like me, plays a big role and LA wins. The laid back easy going life makes you live more and better
and helps you value things different. You don’t have a city center so it is less chaotic but at the same
time you need a car for everything; that’s why they call it “spread city, spread people”.
I grew up in Santander, a city by the sea so the west coast it’s like being home sometimes. And of course
due to my profession, everything concerning show business - it’s there. So like Robbie Williams says in
one of his songs, “Mother, things are gonna change, I’m moving to LA”.
Where would you like to see your career in the next five years?
In the next five years???!! In the next five minutes!! I need to be on stage right now, I feel like a lion in a
cage and I’m just waiting to get out and roar…
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