Dharma +

“It was being honest with who I am and understanding that I’m a person that feels so many different emotions,” Sebastián Yatra tells Apple Music about his third full-length album. “There’s a lot of ways to express those emotions, not just in one genre.” The Colombian singer has made a career of shape-shifting through a variety of Latin pop styles, his expansive range covering reggaetón grooves as much as the broad appeal of Encanto’s “Dos Oruguitas”. A notable divergence from 2019’s ballad-heavy FANTASÍA, Dharma leans more prominently into his already well-documented artistic diversity, further integrating reggaetón and other contemporary pop formats into the mix. From the breezy and lovestruck “Tacones Rojos” to the brokenhearted dembow of “Amor Pasajero”, the collection proves to be his most surprising and satisfying project yet. Building on the original tracklist, the deluxe Dharma+ adds four more songs to the mix, including the subsequent single “TV” and two remixes of “Tacones Rojos”—one from Tiësto, the other with John Legend. Read more about some of the key songs on Dharma, in Sebastián Yatra’s own words, below. “Dharma” “I already knew the title for the album. So, I sat down at the studio, and I said, ‘I want to write a song called “Dharma”, which talks about the good things in life that come to you when you do things right.’ There’s a phrase on the song that says, ‘I must have done something great in some other life for you to appear in this one.’ We had talked about wanting to mix vallenato with flamenco; vallenato represents Colombia, my country, and flamenco represents Spain, which is a country where I spent a lot of time in 2021 and where I learned a lot from their culture. I thought it would be an amazing idea to have a big representative of each of these two countries and genres. Jorge Celedón accepted the invitation, and Rosario Flores, one of the most iconic Spanish artists ever.” “Quererte Bonito” “I wrote with Elena [Rose] right after quarantine