Jhayco Channels Rock-Star Life With Contemporary Album ‘Le Clique: Vida Rockstar (X)’: ‘It’s a Contemporary Step in My Profession’

Embodying a rock-well-known particular person spirit with a jet-setter’s itinerary, Jhayco embarks on a brand recent chapter with the liberate of his fourth studio album, Le Clique: Vida Rockstar (X), due out Friday, Sept 6. Carrying the quintessential rockstar apparel — leather-basically based pants, restful dim boots, a fitted white T-shirt and shades — Jhayco finds how his broad travels and personal evolution own deeply formed this formidable recent endeavor.

His most fervent mission to this point, he now not most efficient co-wrote however also took a hands-on technique in co-producing the album with industry heavyweights similar to Tainy, Haze and El Arma Secreta, amongst others, and shared that “Le Clique” embodies a bigger, extra personal concept. “I truly own a phrase that claims, ‘Vida Rockstar is the motion, and Le Clique is my family, my other folks, my firm,’” he explains to Billboard. “It’s a brand recent step in my profession, a brand recent chapter. I felt it changed into main to repeat this to the arena, and what better method than to title the album after it.”

After a three-one year hiatus following his 2021 album Timelezz, the 31-one year-extinct Puerto Rican ventured globally to file, making stops in Paris, Madrid, Puerto Rico, Miami and Los Angeles. The essence of these various cultural capitals is captured at some stage in the album’s 29 tracks. “The album has a form of affect from many locations,” he notes. “It changed into very crucial due to in other ingredients of the arena, you might per chance well per chance additionally search for different kinds of music and other issues that folk hear to. That’s why it has a form of diversity of sound. Obviously, all my music has at all times [been] centered extra in the sound of Puerto Rico, however traveling to other locations I changed into inspired by completely different issues, completely different moments and for me, it changed into one thing very special.”

Spanning from skater-leaning pop-punk to reggaetón and entice, the album aspects a combination of collaborations with both legendary figures and welcoming inexperienced persons similar to Yandel, Kapo, Dei V, Omar Courtz, DJ Khaled, Eladio Carrión, Peso Pluma, Bryant Myers, Luar La L and Yovngchimi.

Reflecting on his creative lag, Jhayco expressed his personal connection and delight with the ultimate product. “I’ve gotten to the say where I secure happy in every residence of my artistry: from the composition, to the production, to the projection, to the vitality, and the entirety I’m doing. That’s why I’ve been working so hard,” he says. “I felt love one one year wasn’t ample to truly have faith every residence. You fight by method of so distinguished, and I secure love [the process of making] this album has long previous by method of so distinguished with me, sentimentally, the u.s.and downs. I’ve effect my coronary heart into it, and it’s gonna repeat in the creativeness.”

Formerly recognized as Jhay Cortez, the artist has launched and featured in one of basically the most successful singles in pop, similar to Noxious Bunny’s “Dakiti” and his secure hit “No Me Conoce (Remix)” with J Balvin and Bunny.

Seek for Jhayco’s interview with Billboard in the video above, and discover about his foray into defining his rock-well-known particular person persona and recent soundscapes with Le Clique: Vida Rockstar (X).