An Interview with Boy Paco

Dami: What inspired you to start making music?

Boy Paco: Well, growing up I’ve been fortunate to have incredible role, models and mentors, and watching their creativity and impact with the people they had around them, inspired me to pursue my own path. My parents rented out rooms in our house and there was a traveling musician, and I’ll never forget the moment I heard him play the trumpet and practice it. I was just mesmerized and really curious as to how he made that noise. I was like 7/8.

Dami: Apart from that musician, who else would you say inspired you?

Boy Paco: Apart from that musician, my parents have been a tremendous source of inspiration. Despite working incredibly long hours, they always made it a point to play the radio when they came home, no matter how tired or exhausted they were. It was amazing to see how music seemed to revive their spirits and bring them back to life. and it was a running theme to have music, no matter what we were doing whether it was cooking, doing laundry - even rides on public buses they would make sure to be playing music aloud. All sorts from regional Mexican music, all sorts of Corridos, especially Vicente Fernández and Tigres del Norte.

Dami: With all these inspirations from various walks of life, how would you describe your sound?

Boy Paco: As much as I’d love to compare myself to other artists, the best way I can describe my sound is reflection who I am a mix of raw emotion motion and genuine expression - I share myself with my art. I’m human just like anybody else, so I’ll talk about all sorts of stuff whether it’s social unjust or just someone trying to have a good time with tequila, shots and bad bitches. It’s all just human.

Dami: How much would you say you’ve grown since your debut as an artist?

Boy Paco: I think with anything in life it’s never linear. It’s definitely grown. I know when you and I first spoke I was just starting and in this moment reflection, I have grown quite a bit as far as I can say, it took me to places where I never thought I’d see both high and low and I couldn’t be more grateful & excited to see what’s next. 

Dami: When making music, where do you grab inspiration from?

Boy Paco: I like to go over the place when it comes to cultivating my own music will scour all sorts of genres of all different different languages and just seeing what makes what seems to be foreign and figure out what makes it universal.

Dami: What’s your creative process like?

Boy Paco: Ideally, I start off with sitting down, grabbing one of many notebooks - a brush down to work her lines I’ve written in the past or even images of drawn and go off of that. It’ll bounce around all sorts of places. I also write jokes and sketches, so sometimes the song is inspired by a skit that I just wrote or even a witty punchline from a song I’ll turn it into a joke 

Dami: You dropped a single some months titled Son of the Sand. Can you tell us more about it?

Boy Paco: It’s started off as an idea for an April fools joke, and there was a couple of country songs that came out of that but this one in particular I figured you know what let’s release it - I’m very surprised of the new demographic it brought in.

Dami: What demographic did it bring in?

Boy Paco: Surprisingly, it felt like a full circle moment I found out that it was doing numbers in regional Mexico which to me was mind blowing.

Dami: What’s next after this single?

Boy Paco: I will be trying a new avenues, such as I am going to be releasing a booklet of never before published poems. The book will be titled. “I told the stars about you.” and with that I will be releasing new songs and all sorts of genres.

Dami: What will the poems be about?

Boy Paco: the concept behind the works really are thoughts when one finds themselves when all the noise has been turned down. they say the person you spend the most time with is yourself - finding myself in these moments & sharing that experience.

Dami: What kinds of struggle do you face when making music for different genres?

Paco: Almost like a fraud almost, especially when it came to doing country the first demos when I showed my friends some felt as if I was making fun of country music, totally not my intent and kept working on it but I still sort of feel that way but I keep it to myself.

Dami: How do you deal with this feeling?

Paco: I realize if I keep overthinking it halts my progress, so I treat like a trust fall with myself. Just do it & trust my own gut.

Dami: Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Paco: Happy & Healthy is the goal haha.

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