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Quevedo releases third album, ‘El baifo’, a love letter to the Canary Islands

Quevedo drops third album ‘El baifo’

Quevedo has released his third studio album, ‘El baifo’, this Friday, a return to roots for the urban artist raised in the Canary Islands that gives the islands greater prominence than ever before and features some intriguing collaborations, including with the orchestra Nueva Línea and Elvis Crespo.

From early this morning, fans have been able to stream all 14 tracks that make up the follow-up to ‘Buenas noches’ (2024) and ‘Donde quiero estar’ (2023). The release comes after the artist had previewed tracks in recent months such as ‘Scandic’, which followed a similar line to his earlier work, and ‘Ni borracho’—a major hit that reached number one in Spain and already hinted at this look back to his life origins.

A celebration of the Canary Islands

The Canary Islands are more present than ever in Quevedo’s music, as he demonstrated this very week with a striking presentation in the sky above Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, his city. There, he revealed the album’s release date and the image that gives it its title: that of a “baifo”, which is what a young kid goat is called in the islands, and which also forms part of a common expression, “irse al baifo”, meaning to get distracted or zone out.

The new album is structured around a narrative that travels through different locations across the Canarian archipelago, “seen through the eyes of a 24-year-old kid from the islands,” in the artist’s own words as collected by his team. This can be heard in tracks like the opening number ‘Está en casa’, described as “a prelude born from vulnerability” and the need to return home and to one’s essence in order to step away from the limelight, according to the press release. It is also evident in the title track ‘El baifo’, which blends classic reggaeton with instruments such as timbales, trumpets and the Canarian timple in search of the sound of 2000s-era parties.

Expanding the sonic palette

While reggaeton is present, as he demonstrated with his previous work ‘Buenas noches’ by expanding his sonic palette, it is combined here with other styles and genres, such as bossa nova in ‘Flakito’ and vallenato in ‘Al golpito’—another island expression referring to “the very Canarian need to live at a calm and relaxed pace”.

Perhaps one of the most honest and stripped-back tracks is the closing ballad, ‘Hijo del volcán’, in which the artist “exposes the shadows of his life, (…) the fears and insecurities he has discovered after spending so much time away from home”. The song features the sounds of castanets and timple, with participation from Los Gofiones, key figures in Canarian folklore.

Production and collaborations

Quevedo himself has co-produced the songs alongside a substantial team of collaborators, including Garabatto, Izak BDP Music and Pana Ymb, as well as Kiddo on some of the album’s tracks. On the microphone, he has also surrounded himself with fellow artists such as Lucho RK, LA Pantera and Juseph on the track ‘Algo va a pasar’, and Puerto Rican artist Tonny Ton Tun on ‘Gáldar’.

Perhaps the most eye-catching collaborations on paper are with Elvis Crespo, the legendary performer of the classic ‘Suavemente’, who appears on ‘La Graciosa’, and with the orchestra Nueva Línea, who feature on ‘Al golpito’ after their fame spread beyond the islands and turned them into a phenomenon so popular that even RuPaul dances to their videos.

Chart-topping expectations

It is expected that ‘El baifo’ will become a streaming phenomenon, just as his previous work did, with which he broke Spotify records in Spain. Indeed, on that platform, he finished 2025 as the most-streamed Spanish artist.

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