In music and in life, love is necessary.
David Aguilar He is a sensitive man who is not afraid to say what he thinks. His music is not only backed by more than 15 award nominations Latin Grammy that have been granted to him, but, for his own musical essence.
He is characterized as a deeply collaborative composer: he never stops creating for others. His colleagues are also his friends, and many have described him as an established figure within Mexican music, someone with whom it is possible to flow and move forward when creative processes stop or when finding an answer seems complicated.
That quality, and more details of his career, place him as a leading musician of our time: a born creative who found in music the way to be loyal to himself and to contribute to the Mexican heritage, home of transcendent composers for the world.
On January 15, David Aguilar premiered a song with the multi-instrumentalist Jay Cave. It is about “Fire”. In a basic description, “Fire” It is a song about love and dedication, a recurring theme in Mexican musical tradition.
As he himself explains: “Mexico has a great tradition in that sense, of songs about love and heartbreak. Because in Mexico there are also many songs about heartbreak, which in the end are still a love song. So, I believe that the phenomenon of love is something that makes us human and keeps us here, alive and well, all of us who in some way have not managed to escape it.”
In a context crossed by war and uncertainty, love ends up becoming a tool of resistance. This is how the musician himself puts it: “It is a love song and I believe that there is always room – and it is always necessary – for love songs to exist. Our society, and human beings in general, have relied a lot on music: to feel, to vent, above all to deposit feelings and emotions.” Although he clarifies: “I call it a love song, but in reality it is a passionate song.”
For David Aguilarloving implies giving everything; It is something that runs through the hot, red blood of humans. However, in every step taken towards surrendering to love, two steps are inevitably taken towards pain: “There is something toxic in the song, maybe, I don't know, because it asks to burn, it asks to feel to the point of almost forgetting oneself. That was a bit of the focus of how the lyrics were born. It's 'I thirst to lose myself for you.'”
In particular, there is a phrase within the lyrics that concentrates a strong emotional charge: the one that suggests that death illuminates the relationship. “If I had to choose, that is where the most emotion is deposited. The song comes asking for love, it comes saying: I would like to give you something, a jewel of mine today, but we well know that to do so we would have to risk everything. It is talking about passion, of losing one's mind for someone, of falling in love, of feeling. That is why it is the fire.”
And continues: “Although it may have a specific addressee, in general, when it says 'may death enlighten us'is accepting the share of pain and suffering that almost always accompanies passion. From there comes rebirth, death, pain, and how in the end that can also be returned as love, as if it were a mirror. Also, the word 'death' in a love song… imagine everything that can be deposited there: it's a lot.”
David Aguilar He listens to his contemporaries, to those who preceded him and to the new voices of Mexican music. He respects them as composers and as creators of work. Towards the end of last year, he shared the stage with Natalia Lafourcade and participated in the celebrated Tiny Desk of Silvana Estrada as accompanying musician.
In music, beyond romantic love, friendships also function as creative and passionate flames: “Friends detonate passion in us, without a doubt. A passion that sometimes comes from vocational, work or artistic backgrounds. When an artist dazzles another artist, there is a passionate relationship of creativity and perspectives. It is something that can be painful and loving at the same time, because one compares oneself, one measures oneself. As an artist, one sculpts oneself from the artists and the works. who knows. So it is a constant dialogue, but there is a lot of passion for that friction of knowing oneself as an artist and constantly verifying oneself through others, which is what happens to me collaborating to a large extent, because I go and sing with someone or they propose a song to me and there it is like a mirror all the time of what I bring inside, and I can dialogue with that and learn a lot.
In 2026, the eyes of the music industry seem to be on Latin America. It's not a coincidence. Since the announcement of the presentation of a Latin artist at halftime of the most televised sporting event in the United States—in contrast to the complex and terrible situation that other Latinos currently face in that same country—the question arises about the role of Mexican music in this global panorama.
On this topic, David Aguilar comments: “I believe that Mexican music is very present through exponents who have managed to link themselves with the American industry or with the Latin industry within the United States. But it must also be said that Latin urban music, reggaeton, trap, has connected far beyond the language and has even infiltrated Europe.”
And adds: “I believe that Mexican music has a place based on its own tradition. It was very strong during the era of golden cinema, in the fifties, through Mexican cinema. So there are already previous conquests, so to speak, an inaugurated channel. Generations are renewed and history changes, but it would not be the first time. Mexico is a culturally overflowing country; few countries have such great cultural wealth. That is my vision.”
“Fire” It is a release that is added to a new album material by David Aguilar and it is now available everywhere. Dale play to its official video here:
