I love to travel, especially to ecological destinations. I feel that I have a special connection with nature, essentially with water. This is the reason many of my songs are inspired by travel, and every time I come from one, I come back with new learnings, with my mind more open, and my creativity refreshed.

In 2021 I took a trip to Danubio, which was full of challenges in every way! take the popcorn, because the story is long.

Danubio is a beautiful river in Valle del Cauca - Colombia, which I always wanted to visit since 2020; however, I got COVID in December of that year and ended up passing it on to my dad. He seemed fine, we both did our isolation and decided to continue with the plan to spend the final days of December in Roldanillo, his hometown. Once in Roldanillo, I remember being with my sister, packing the suitcase to travel the next day to Danubio, and my mother came over and asked us not to leave because she felt that my father was not doing well. We decided to stay, (I thank the universe very much for making us stay) and the next day, he was in such bad shape that he couldn't even walk. He hid from us that he had difficulty breathing for more than 3 days because he didn't want us to worry.

At that time in Colombia, there were not enough ICUs available, not even in the best hospitals! To make things worse, we were in a town where ICUs were non-existent. In short, my dad was about to die in the local hospital because they couldn't do anything for him since they didn't have the necessary equipment to care for him. Additionally, they couldn't transfer him to any other hospital because the hospitals with ICUs were full. Fortunately and out of nowhere, a miracle happened, and an ICU was vacated in a city an hour away, and after 20 days hospitalized, my dad survived…

That was my first attempt to visit Danubio, and I was given the great blessing of having my father alive. My second attempt was a year later in December 2021. This time we made it there, but not before going through some scares.

Every year we travel from Medellín to Roldanillo to spend the end of the year together, and this was no exception. I managed to convince my parents to join my sister and me to visit Danubio, so we traveled to Queremal, a town in Valle del Cauca 3 hours away from Roldanillo, to spend the night and get up early to travel to Danubio the next morning. On our way to Queremal, we decided we would stop at Lake Calima, but when we left, it was already getting dark. My dad knew the way, but we missed a turn to the right and got lost. We decided to use Waze and started to follow its directions, but we got even more lost. We asked a man from the area, and he helped with some directions, but suddenly, we had no signal and were on a country road in the middle of two mountains, everyone was silent in the car. We were all afraid because we didn't know the area and we couldn't go back. We began to see signs on the walls of a few farms that said we were entering FARC dissidents’ territory. We all looked at each other, no one said a thing. We were one and a half hours deep on a country road, but we managed to find our way and reach Queremal.

(This is the only video I have from that moment. There was a lot of fog)

The next day, we got up early to drive towards Danubio and witness this natural wonder. Once again, I was amazed and speechless at the beauty of the biodiversity that we have in Colombia.

So this song talks about that, how everything around us is magic, how much I want to feel at peace with myself and have freedom from the depths of my being. This trip made me confront myself and value the lives of my loved ones. Seeing these natural wonders reminded me that there’s magic everywhere around us, and while I was silent in the car, scared to death, I began to reflect on the power of love and forgiveness, and how they can transform the world.

If you want to see more videos of the experience go to my lens profile.