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Sebastián Obando Giraldo, known professionally as Sebastián Yatra, is a Colombian singer and songwriter. He began as a Latin pop artist and has
recorded many ballads, but has released several successful reggaeton singles. He was born in Medellín Antioquia on October 15, 1994 with his parents (Aníbal Obando and María Adelaida Giraldo and
his twin brother and his other brother, Juan Manuel and Andrés Obando Giraldo).
When he was approximately 5 years old, he moved to the city of Cartagena de Indias for security reasons, the same reason that he later would move to Miami, Florida in the United States,
where he began his musical studies.
When Yatra was little he wanted to be a footballer and was talented with the ball until at his school they did a talent show and it was his first time on stage and he fell in love with the
microphone.
He began to study singing because he really wanted to dedicate his life to singing from that moment.
In 2014 he released his first single, “El Psicólogo”.
It was successful because the song is still listened to this day, for now it has 868,561 views on youtube.
After being successful with their first song, the people who saw the video in all parts of the world were encouraged to continue singing.
He professionally released his second single called No Me Llames in 2015.
With this song his fame did not spread so much and his name was not watered, but he had to understand that it was only his second song.
In order for his name to be mentioned internationally, he released Love You Forever, among other songs all with the same objective.
In 2017 he released a new song called “Traicionera” in which almost everyone heard it and everyone said: Sebastián Yatra, the Traicionera, yes, yes.
Weeks later they called him to a school in Cartagena de Indias (Cartagena Gym) for a concert on "Family Day" (a concert I attended but I didn't know who Yatra was so well).
He had to be filled with a lot of happiness because after so much effort his popularity finally grew almost 100% all thanks to a single song, Treacherous and Yatra, Yatra, it was heard much
more in the entire world. This is the lyrics of Traicionera:
“Yatra, Yatra
You tell me that it is not true that you are dying for me. If it is true that you do not like me, do not approach me like this. They told me that you love that they die for you.
If you tell me that you love me I will not believe you (no)
You tell me that you love me and you can't be faithful (no) You left me driving alone and sad woman (no)
I confess if you want to know, if you want to know
Treacherous, I don't care what you want me Liar, you just want me to die Treacherous love, in my life you were a passenger
Liar, I don't care if you die of love
Ohh ohh
Liar, I don't care if you die of love
You live dancing reggaeton, ton, ton
And you don't care at all what the heart feels You only care about the pants, lon, lon
And you can see your evil intention from afar
And look it's not that easy
Falling in love has never been so easy
When you're close to me, it's not easy
And is that life became difficult
Just for you
If you tell me that you love me I will not believe you (no)
You tell me that you love me and you can't be faithful (no) You left me driving alone and sad woman (no)
I confess if you want to know, if you want to know
Treacherous, I don't care what you want me Liar, you just want me to die Treacherous love, in my life you were a passenger
Liar, I don't care if you die of love
Ohh ohh
Liar, I don't care if you die of love
You tell me that it is not true that you are dying for me
Treacherous, I don't care what you want me Liar, you just want me to die Treacherous love, in my life you were a passenger
Liar, I don't care if you die of love
Ohh ohh
Liar, I don't care if you die of love
Ohh ohh
Liar, I don't care if you die of love
Sebastian Yatra Yatra, Yatra Yatra, Yatra
You tell me that it is not true that you are dying for me. If it is true that you do not like me, do not approach me like this. They told me that you love that they die for you.
If you tell me that you love me I will not believe you (no)
You tell me that you love me and you can't be faithful (no) You left me driving alone and sad woman (no)
I confess if you want to know, if you want to know
Treacherous, I don't care what you want me Liar, you just want me to die Treacherous love, in my life you were a passenger
Liar, I don't care if you die of love
Ohh ohh
Liar, I don't care if you die of love
You live dancing reggaeton, ton, ton
And you don't care at all what the heart feels You only care about the pants, lon, lon
And you can see your evil intention from afar
And look it's not that easy
Falling in love has never been so easy
When you're close to me, it's not easy
And is that life became difficult
Just for you
If you tell me that you love me I will not believe you (no)
You tell me that you love me and you can't be faithful (no) You left me driving alone and sad woman (no)
I confess if you want to know, if you want to know
Treacherous, I don't care what you want me Liar, you just want me to die Treacherous love, in my life you were a passenger
Liar, I don't care if you die of love
Ohh ohh
Liar, I don't care if you die of love
You tell me that it is not true that you are dying for me
Treacherous, I don't care what you want me Liar, you just want me to die Treacherous love, in my life you were a passenger
Liar, I don't care if you die of love
Ohh ohh
Liar, I don't care if you die of love
Ohh ohh
Liar, I don't care if you die of love”
-Sebastian Yatra
Months after the song of Traicionera was released, thanks to his fame Carlos Vives, one of the specialists in Colombian music released a new song for the artist's album
samarium, "VIVES".
This song definitely totally changed Yatra's career, it was one of the songs of the decade by several newspapers, magazines, among them Periódico La Nacional and Colombian Radios.
The Video is about several people trying to fall in love or make their partners fall in love.
At first a teenager comes out and then he said that since he was 12 he had not said "I love you" to his mother so he meets Vives and Yatra and they go to his mother, who worked in a
restaurant to sing the song to him.
Then a boy comes out who was in love with a girl since third grade so the boy goes with both Colombian artists and the boy goes to sing the song to the girl, who was on the balconies of the
school and came down to kiss the cheek of the kid.
Then two old men came out and said that they rarely ate together so the old man begins to follow both singers and they go in a car and the Lord stops them and the whole town goes with the
singers and with the Lord to sing the song to the lady, who comes down and the video ends with a kiss from both elders.
The video has 1,289,834,924 views on Youtube.
After this song Yatra could be at the level of singers like Carlos Vives, Manuel Turizo, Maluma, or Daddy Yankee.
Yatra, every time with a few buttons on his shirt buttoned up on the stage remembers how he started in Medellin, Cartagena de Indias and Miami starting his musical studies. But thanks to
his first time on the stage in that talent show at his college he has become the singer we know today. He has 12.5 million followers on YouTube, 20.1 million followers on Instagram and
3,969,765 on Facebook.