Eme Malafe is thrilled to announce the launch of his deluxe album “Santos”
Born and raised in one of Mexico City’s most iconic slums, Martin Geovanni Aldana, aka Eme Malafe, is a genuine artist and chronicler of the reality of life in the barrio’s bravos. Through his music and direct and eloquent lyrics, he has become known for his strong criticism of society and the system.
Eme Malafe’s most recent work, “Santos,” a film and music presented in 6 chapters, is a story with fictional characters based on actual events. Malafe plays the character of “El Diablito.” In his debut album, the artist delivers each of the songs’ original music and the criticism and rebellion embodied in the songs. It is the soundtrack of the story that Malafe addresses in the film in which each song is crucial to each episode, a perfect and very well achieved combination between a music video clip with an episode of a series and ranging from regional, through rap, trap, drill, salsa, EDM and other musical styles.
“Santos” is the film that Eme Malafe uses as an artistic visual medium and in a raw way to communicate social problems such as violence, drug trafficking, the disappearance of women, and the trafficking of minors, among others. It is also a chronicle of how a criminal is born and how these events that have become “normal” in a growing and transforming society are not “normal” for everyone. “Santos” is more than an album of six songs; it is an essential means of beginning to understand a complex reality in which the poor are blamed for their tragedies.
Without praising the violence and what many must live with, interpreted in his songs beyond those included in his album “Santos,” Eme Malafe conveys a pacifist message against social racism and the cultural pride of belonging to the neighborhood. This is how the artist feels: “If I were born again, I would be born in the barrio.” A phrase that is already identified as his own.
