At 40, the musician releases a double album with responses to the criticism received after the end of the Sandy & Junior duo
Singer Junior Lima He thought about giving up his career. For the first time, at the age of 40, he produces “only and exclusively” the music he likes.
The statement was given to the magazine I wait this Friday the 7th.
“I took some hard beatings as a singer and accepted this narrative. I never wanted to sing again. There were other ways to express myself,” she tells the publication.
In November, the musician released the first part of a double album titled Earth, with 23 tracks. The work includes collaborations with his father, Xororó and Sandy.
Post-end crisis
The duo with her sister ended in 2007. In 2019, the two returned for a tour that toured Brazil with more than 100,000 tickets sold in Rio de Janeiro alone.
Despite this, years earlier, Junior had to deal with the deaths of Champignon, in 2013, and Peu Araújo, in 2014, friends and colleagues from the band Nove Mil Anjos. Late last year, Junior revealed he had been suffering from panic attacks and depression following the end of his relationship with Sandy.
In addition to the emotional blow, he states in the interview with I wait he continues to face criticism for living in the shadow of the legacy of his career at Sandy and Junior.
The answer to detractors, the publication claims, are similar tracks Fuck you, composed by Dani Black. On September 21st Junior will present his new work on the stage of Rock in Rio.
Source: Terra
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