After being crowned the 2020 national champion at the Battle of the Roosters, Martín García, better known as Martín Acertijo, decided to launch his career in music.
He started with “Love For Enemies”, weeks after winning the national competition and last week released his second single “No Cuentas Na”. The 24-year-old artist originally from Concepción is also preparing to represent Chile in the international final of the Battle of the Roosters of Red Bull.
How do you feel about the competition?
I feel good, I feel confident, I feel like it. I want to go and enjoy it more than anything is the biggest of battles, the most important. The bastards go so nothing, you have to enjoy the moment because it’s not time to get caught or anything, because that doesn’t help.
How do you prepare for freestyle battles?
I’ve always believed that freestyle is a pretty integral discipline: everything you do affects. Sleeping well, feeding well, being healthy in mind, being bodily healthy helps a lot. Out there is sport, phonoaudiology, pre-event psychology and things like that, but also the toughest training: reading aloud, getting together in rehearsal rooms to train, study words, study concepts, general culture… It is quite integral and there is no unique method established, each one can build its shape and that has been mine: try to combine everything.
It’s quite a sport.
Yes, it has become a kind of high performance sport but very artistic as well. So it’s interesting because it occupies that gray area between sport and art that makes it so eye-catching.
At what point do you decide to set foot in a musical career?
It was born at a time when I was looking forward to expressing and telling emotions that I felt, but that had no place in freestyle battles. This is because battles are more like a linguistic sport and through music I allowed myself to express certain things that I had in storage.
What’s Na Counts about?
It is about that feeling of helplessness, of incommunicado with a person who is very close and very locked in himself. I saw that happening to me and it affected me daily with my friends, with my partner, with brothers… So I didn’t know how to get close to those people who are having a hard time, not having the tools.
How do you see the urban music scene in Chile?
I think for a while now, about 2, 3 years ago maybe, there was a boom, a golden generation so to speak where many doors opened. I believe that now is a good time for new proposals to appear, new names with also new ideas, precisely to test that first impulse.
Do you consider yourself part of the golden generation?
No, no. (Laughter). We’re talking about Princess Alba, Polima Westcoast, Young Cister, Pablo Chill-e, Gianluca, they marked something. Pigeon Mommy too, though she in terms a little bigger still. Not me at all. I’m super landed in that sense, I try to go little by little, step by step, I’m just showing off my first jobs, so little by little.
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