After a few attempts to get in touch by phone with RBD contest participants to win a phone call from one of their members, finally Cristian Pesa (19) who lives in Miami, FL, answered without knowing Maite Perroni was calling him. They had a nice chat for a few minutes talking about the band, live performances and their new projects. Maite, who was smiling all the time, answered all his questions. Cristian will also receive a giant poster signed by all RBD members.
They are having the time of their life. With 6 million copies sold worldwide and touring around Mexico, the U.S., Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile and Spain, Dulce María, Anahí, Maite, Christopher, Alfonso and Christian have become one of the most successful Latin American pop bands ever. Christian says "We have proved to everyone in Latin America that people enjoy pop music very much and we hope English-speaking audiences will enjoy our music too". After our congratulations for their successful tour around Brazil, we asked them about the song "I Wanna Be The Rain". Maite says "As you probably know we have worked with very talented people, including award-winning composer Diane Warren. One of their contributions is "I Wanna Be The Rain", featured in Spanish in our record called "Celestial" and in our first English-language album "Rebels". We liked it and we decided to include it in both records . Have you ever imagined to become as famous as you are now? Dulce María answers "We always hoped to reach a wide audience in our communities, but to be honest with you it's been a wild ride and we are now reaching people we never thought we would be able to. We're even planning to reach Japanese music fans". We're not surprised. The first e-mail to participate in our contest came from Romania, something even their record label representatives couldn't believe. Alfonso told us about Sálvame, a charitable foundation they are working on to help poor children in Latin America, specially in countries such as Mexico and Brazil. They also told us they are improving their skills as instrumentalists (Christopher plays drums and Anahí plays guitar). They don't have individual plans for now. They feel confident they will be together for a long time. Finally they defined themselves in three single words "Passionate, authentic and rebels!". |
