“Take care of your heart and mind”

Gaby Amarantos started the year single and losing weight. The singer analyzes that she has experienced a period of great transformation in the last 12 months, which consisted of enjoying life, reaching the mark of more than 35 kilos lost and also releasing the album. Crazy Rockwhich has already earned him millions plays on audio platforms.

“It’s been a year of a lot of transformations for the better. This weight loss thing has been an internal transformation that people don’t see, but there is a transformation of thinking, of isolation, of spirituality, of taking care of my heart and my mind,” Gaby said in an interview with Earth.

The artist says she is satisfied with her own body. “I got to where I wanted to be, but the most important thing was to take care of my health,” she says, who began devoting herself to the weight loss process when she saw that many people in her family suffered from complications due to diabetes and obesity, as happened with her brother Gabriel, who died in June this year.

For Gaby, the therapeutic process was fundamental for her to experience this transformation. It was during the sessions that the artist identified the problem of binge eating disorder, which was causing her to gain weight, and which also helped her to better understand the place she occupies as an artist.

“Therapy was the path that allowed me to recognize my power and return to the path of my essence. What I came to this world to do is make these people tremble.”

With the aim of shaking Brazil, Gaby Amarantos released this year the fourth album of her career, Crazy Rockwhich takes its name from a cultural movement in Pará and in which she tells from start to finish what an evening at a sound system party is like. The songs became popular with many people across Brazil, to a level that surprised even the artist.

” Rock Doido took me to another level. It’s really crazy because I just did my first concert and I’m still in a state of real shock. I couldn’t talk to the audience, because it was the first time I saw one of my albums being sung from start to finish at the top of my lungs. I looked and said, ‘This is happening,'” he says.

The singer analyzes that Rock Doido brings the energy of sound system parties, which many people are curious to know, and makes people feel like they are enjoying this party in Pará. And, in addition to the songs, Gaby also recorded a 20-minute visual album, all recorded in sequence, that is to say without any cuts.

“It was very difficult to make Rock Doido. We rehearsed a lot. A lot of things happened, there was rain, a predicted storm, a light that burned out, a take that didn’t work,” remembers Gaby, who also says that it took three attempts to complete the video.

In the album’s songs, Gaby extols singlehood and talks about flirting and enjoying life. These words appeared after the end of the artist’s 10-year marriage to Englishman Gareth Jones. The two had been separated since June 2023, but the singer only spoke about it in November last year, after her ex started a new relationship.

Since then, she has spoken many times about how much she enjoyed this phase of life and kissed many lips. She has even been cited as having an affair with Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay, but she avoids commenting on her love life and says she is “living well.”

The success achieved with Crazy Rock comes two years after Gaby Amarantos recorded the first Latin Grammy of her career with the album TecnoShow. The work received the award for Best Roots Music Album in the Portuguese Language.

With a new album out in the world, the singer admits she’d love to see herself among the Grammy nominees again, but also emphasizes that she doesn’t create music with the awards she might win in mind. In November, she was already rewarded for her work in the Potências Prize, which celebrates the highlights of black people in different areas, and, during her speech, she celebrated that the work of popularizing Pará music, started 14 years ago, had borne fruit.

“Since 2011, when I released my first album, I showed, talked and believed that Brazil would recognize the music created in the suburbs of Belém do Pará. Finally, it is happening. A musical movement does not happen overnight,” Gaby said.