Sergio Ramos Is ‘Serious’ About Music, Recruits A-Team to Release Debut Single ‘Cibeles’: ‘Music Is in My Blood’

After exiting Real Madrid successful 2021 — spending a singular 16 years with the Spanish nine — Sergio Ramos spent the adjacent 2 years hunkered down penning and producing music. It was past that “Cibeles” was calved — an ultra idiosyncratic song, a emotion way astatine its core, astir his bittersweet departure from the Spanish shot squad aft 16 seasons and 22 titles.

“I anticipation you bash well, though without you I consciousness bad,” the 39-year-old shot prima sings evocatively implicit an Afrobeat-tinged rhythm.

“It’s precise emotional, sentimental, it’s a emotion story, astir everything I’ve experienced implicit galore years with the champion squad successful the world, and well, it tells a small spot astir however I felt astatine that moment,” Ramos tells Billboard over Zoom, conscionable days aft releasing the Ovy connected the Drums and Yeray Music-produced single.

In summation to being a planetary fútbol icon, who won the 2010 World Cup with Spain, this isn’t Romas’ archetypal foray successful music. In fact, helium has antecedently collaborated with Niña Pastori and Los Yakis, releasing astatine slightest 5 collaborations implicit the past 10 years. But “Cibeles” marks a caller epoch for Ramos, who contiguous plays for the Mexican squad Rayados de Monterrey.

His debut solo azygous is the archetypal of respective songs Ramos has penned successful a notebook he’s kept for astir 12 years, helium says. And it’s the opening of a caller epoch successful his euphony career, a much “serious” one, helium explains. Which is wherefore he’s recruited an A-team, including renowned producers similar Ovy connected the Drums, originative bureau Little Spain and Bad Bunny’s grounds label, Rimas Entertainment.

“When I don’t cognize something, I similar to larn from the best,” helium says astir the squad helium assembled to assistance motorboat his euphony career. “After doing a small marketplace probe and being fortunate capable to conscionable astir of the artists I admire, I realized they were the champion radical to travel maine connected this adventure, and amusement that we are entering a caller manufacture successful a superior way.”

Below, Ramos talks passionately astir euphony being successful his blood, wherefore he’s “not doing this connected a whim,” and dreams of touring successful the future.

Although “Cibeles” came retired a fewer days ago, I ideate you’re inactive processing the merchandise of specified a idiosyncratic song.

I’m personally precise excited astir the worldwide effect to the song, and precise blessed that radical tin link with it. Despite having collaborated with different artists years ago, this is my archetypal idiosyncratic venture. I composed “Cibeles” erstwhile I near Real Madrid 4 years ago, and well, it’s precise emotional, sentimental, it’s a emotion story, astir everything I’ve experienced implicit galore years with the champion squad successful the world. It tells a small spot astir however I felt astatine that infinitesimal and, well, it infects radical with that emotion, adjacent though it has been a communicative of emotion and symptom with specified beardown feelings. I americium inactive digesting the interaction it has had.

What was penning “Cibeles” similar for you and bash you constitute often?

I person a notebook that I’ve been utilizing for astir 12 years to constitute down thoughts, experiences, ideas — and I person galore things that, God willing, volition travel retired successful the future. I besides started moving with Yeray Music, my shaper successful Madrid, who was locked up with maine for the past 2 years successful Sevilla and Madrid making caller beats, antithetic styles but each modern music, which is wherever we privation to go.

A mates months ago, Ovy connected the Drums, with whom I person a precise bully relationship, was successful Madrid and I showed him what we had recorded. He took it from there, and added his sign...