Jan Cruz: In Paper Airplanes to Paradise?

March 24, 2020

The single Paraíso, released under the Bis Music label, is a preview of the upcoming album by Cuban singer-songwriter Jan Cruz, continuing his successful production Aviones de papel, which won the Cubadisco award for pop in 2017.

With touches of country, pop and electronic music, Jan invites us through a song to his future Paraíso:

"This song gives its title to the album, it can set the tone for the other songs that will be included and it is the first image of what the phonogram will be. It will bring love songs, social themes. It follows the same path I always work on, facing life and the moment I'm living in. One changes over time, not in ideas but in the way of thinking and finding other angles to things and that is also reflected in the album."

Along that same path Jan Cruz places the particularities of this album: "What's different is the context in which I'm living. One tries to adapt a bit to the currents that drive music in the world in the most sincere way possible and in accordance with my way of creating and seeing music. Here I give more prominence to electric guitars and drums, there are perhaps changes in the way of viewing the text but the very essence of the previous albums is still there.

This first track is available on digital platforms and its recently released music video can be enjoyed in different television spaces, meanwhile, the album is also progressing. The plan is to finish this material by the end of the year which, according to the author, invites you to a dreamed paradise:

"It's about seeking that inner paradise, not earthly but spiritual. Lose yourself with the person you love, find yourself and enjoy to the fullest. But paradise for me is also our daily life, what surrounds us with its good and bad things and that is also seen in the album. There are songs that deal with environmental problems, emigration, love and heartbreak. Paradise is not only the beautiful things we imagine it's a spiritual world, what surrounds us, what we dream."