Maluma var en av de sista artisterna att inta Globens scen, i slutet av februari 2020, innan coronapandemin slog till på allvar i mars månad. Nu är den hyllade latin-artisten tillbaka med ett överraskningsalbum – på sin 27-årsdag. Albumet spelades in under en vecka på Jamaica och beskrivs som ett projekt där Maluma tar en ny riktning. På skivan gästar Ziggy Marley och Charly Black.

“…takes his sound in a completely unexpected new direction fusing Latin urban music with reggae and dancehall, collaborating with renowned Jamaican artists Ziggy Marley and Charly Black and incorporating traditional Jamaican musicians and live instruments (trumpets, saxophone, bass, drums). While each track has a distinct style, they are all seamlessly interconnected; the result is a Latin-urban-world music masterpiece that is as refreshing and magical as the journey that inspired it.”

Själv kommenterar Maluma albumet i ett pressutskick:

“Those seven days in Jamaica came at a time when I needed to escape and decompress as I had intensely worked non-stop on my career for seven years… causing me to question if I should even continue doing music. I did a lot of soul-searching and came back a different person, completely inspired and having realized that music is not just what I do, its part of who I am; how I experience and interpret life…”