Antonia Jones debuted with “vulnerable and honest” lyrics.

Written by Paola Caballero |

Bogota (EFE).- Antonia Jones, a singer from Medellin, has just turned 22 years old and is the first artist of the recently created Juanes label, which aims to promote emerging artists, and which has just released her first album, which features “Truth “And weakness,” he said in an interview with EFE.

Jones says she met Joannis “many years ago,” at the first party she attended, and laughs that he “didn’t remember, when he saw me again in Miami years later, that I had to show him the pictures we had taken.” “We did.”

A little over a year ago, Colombian Juanes opened the “1S” record label, which when read in English sounds almost the same as the artist name Paisa, and through which he wants to promote and promote emerging singer-songwriters.

For the young artist, the connection that formed between the two was like a “tap to the universe” because he was looking for artists and she was “looking for new directions” for her musical projects.

Vulnerability and mental health

The song in which Joannis said “there's something here” was “Let Them In”, a song that a year later became the first single on the singer-songwriter's self-titled album.

“I remember sending it to Juanes this way, on the piano, crying with snot and everything,” he says with nostalgia and a smile, as he explains the history of the song that is his “favorite son” on the album.

The composition is his most personal theme as he deals with bullying situations he experienced during his childhood: “They used to bully me a lot at school, they teased me a lot and that hit me hard, and it had consequences for me.” The Future.

Traces that he was able to put down on paper years later, during the pandemic, as he was going through a “very big mental health process,” as he sat in his composing chair and couldn’t stop writing, even admitting that the song was much longer than it was finally produced. For the album.

From pop to vallenato

The Colombian, despite growing up in Miami, embraces her musical roots and stresses that she loves vallenato: “Colombia is Colombia, and the rhythms of my land taught me a lot to write.”

For Albaisa, the Vallenato singer-songwriters are a great source of inspiration because she listened to them on the radio throughout her childhood and thanks to them she was able to create more romantic and metaphorical songs.

Antonia Jones started out in the music world when she was 14, uploading “covers” of songs by artists who today are considered references in her music, such as Giulietta Venegas, Taylor Swift or Paulina Rubio, whom she describes as “those singer-songwriters who have remained alive.” “Life and those who shaped my childhood and raised me.”

There was always music in her house because her father played it all the time, but she was the only one who tuned it. Then producers arrived who trusted the young woman and she was able to get her first contact and finally meet Joanice.

Unique opportunity

In 2021, the Colombian artist invited her to the stage during his Origen tour to sing the song “Fotografía”, and this year she will accompany him as a guest artist in his concerts in Bogota and Medellin, which for her is a “unique experience”. “

“I feel like the luckiest person in the world,” says Jones, who also recommends that “those who come after her” at the 1S record label “enjoy it to the fullest.”