Yorghaki alone with 'Before it's too late'
The Venezuelan singer releases a solo album after achieving success with Alleh
Yorghaki is an unrepentant fan of fashion. His family is partly responsible for this Venezuelan singer being in love with fibers, colors, flights and shine.
His grandfather came from Syria to Venezuela on a boat to look for a better future. The only thing he could think of, like the good merchant he was, was to sell jewelry, threads, clothing applications, among other things.
“As she had the store for many years, my mother was born around all that,” she said. "Then, my mom became a fashionista; at 15, 20 years old, she dressed super cool."
Then his sister was born and then he. And both his mother and sister influence him about everything that has to do with fashion, “and I grow up in a house where fashion has always been first, and colors, and aesthetics, and fabrics, and all those things.”
That passion is latent on the cover of Yorghaki's new album, “Before it's Too Late,” where the artist shows off impressively flared pants, the work of a Venezuelan designer.
This material represents a new stage in the singer-songwriter's career because it is a solo album with eight songs that, in contrast to his previous music, is more personal because, for example, it reflects his philosophy of life: living with more intensity, with fewer worries and loving more.
“It's like, before it's too late I'm going to do all the things I promised myself,” he said. “[For example] I'm going to love my family, I'm going to love my girlfriend, I'm going to share with my friends, I'm going to do all the things that I always wanted to do, I'm going to jump from a parachute, I'm going to write a song, I'm going to direct a television show, I'm going to direct a movie…”
It is that call that life is one, he said, and we must enjoy it and enjoy it because there is no other.
Yorghaki achieved international fame by fusing reggaeton with merengue, a genre he called merenguetón. His rise was thanks to Alleh, the singer with whom he formed a duo and with whom he released the album “La Ciudad”, from which the song “Capaz” emerged, which was quite popular.
After that maelstrom and success, the artist paused to think about what he wanted to do with his life. He decided on music and one day he moved to the Dominican Republic, where he was inspired to record “Before it's Too Late.”
"There I found the rhythms, there I found music again. I found myself and the computer, I found the voice, I found all these things that I was afraid to face, but I faced them," he says.
The artist hopes to start a tour soon, but first, one of his purposes with the album is “for people to get the message that life is one and that you have to do what you want.”

