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When their child, Índigo, turned 40 days previous, new dad and mom Evaluna Montaner de Echeverry and Camilo Echeverry packed their baggage and launched into their first tour as a household of three. “She fits in perfectly with this [tour] life, thank goodness,” says Evaluna proudly of her daughter, the famous person couple’s first baby.
It’s late March and the multifaceted artist — singer-songwriter, actress and director — is dwelling in Miami after wrapping up the primary leg of the couple’s bold De Adentro Pa’ Afuera world tour, which kicked off final 12 months. “The crew became Índigo’s second family.” She provides, “It’s just so much fun to see her surrounded by many people that love her.”
Evaluna, 25, and who goes by her first title solely, grew up in an identical atmosphere. Her father is prolific singer-songwriter Ricardo Montaner, her mom is director Marlene Rodríguez Miranda — who directs all of Ricardo’s music movies — and her brothers are recording artists Ricardo and Mauricio Montaner (generally known as the duo Mau y Ricky).
While Evaluna’s title is usually seen aspect by aspect with these of her well-known husband, siblings and fogeys, she’s a powerhouse in her personal proper. With a particular soothing voice that has captured greater than 4 million month-to-month listeners on Spotify and 4 million YouTube subscribers (in addition to 21 million followers on Instagram), her skill to steadiness life as a Montaner (on- and offscreen), in addition to a wedding, a recording and directing profession and now motherhood on the street, embodies a distinct form of pop star: One that makes household a part of her success.
“It has been wonderful to grow up in the family that I’ve grown up in, where they are open to all of us following our dreams. Our dreams all happen to go hand in hand, and we’re able to work together.”
That modeled her personal relationship with Colombian star Camilo (who additionally goes by his first title), whom she married in February 2020. The pair collaborated on “Por Primera Vez,” “Machu Picchu” and “Índigo,” which peaked at No. 16 on Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart and No. 26 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart. She has additionally directed all of Camilo’s music movies, following in the footsteps of her mom, who would take Evaluna to work along with her whereas she was directing on set. “I’d be her AD [assistant director], and it would be great because she’d make me do a bunch of things although I was really young,” she remembers. “I felt I was being productive, and that really encouraged me to say, ‘I think I can do this too.’ I don’t know if I’ll be as good as her, but I can try.” Even after directing for 3 years now, Evaluna confesses she’ll nonetheless name her mother to ask: “Do you think this idea for a music video is cool or do you think this is going to be lame?”
Aside from touring and directing, Evaluna’s music profession (she’s managed by Jorge Ferradas at FPM Entertainment, who additionally manages Camilo) is “very much a priority.” Her newest single, “Refugio,” a sunny ballad launched final 12 months with a video (directed by her mother) with over 4 million YouTube views, is a preview of what’s to come back. “I’m not one to release a whole bunch of songs and go single after single,” she explains. “I like taking my time and nurturing a song before releasing it. I’m getting closer to the stripped-down, raw sound I want to have for myself.”
A couple of weeks after Billboard spoke with Evaluna, the household of three will pack up once more and kick off the second leg of the tour in Central America and Mexico. “Having to wake up early after you’ve had a long night, that’s intense,” she says of touring with a child in tow.
Still, that doesn’t evaluate to the feedback she was seeing on-line after giving beginning, the less-talked-about aspect impact of getting hundreds of thousands of eyes on you. “That was the hardest part,” Evaluna says. “They were saying that childbirth had ‘done a number on me.’ The only reason I’m sharing this is because I wouldn’t wish that upon anyone. I regret feeling for a moment that those people might be right. I regret it because my body is incredible. It has been doing some crazy things since the moment I got pregnant.” She then provides confidently, “I feel like I’ve really grown as a woman, being a mother to this beautiful girl. I can say that I’m the woman I always dreamed of becoming.”
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