Exclusive: Glambergirlblog Speaks With Reggaeton Artist Jesse Medeles

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Jesse Medeles is an up and coming Reggaeton artist with a unique sound compared to the likes of Latin Grammy award winner Pitbull.

The Laredo, Texas boy has an extensive resume in the television and film industry and can be seen on-screen in “Snitch” and Friday Night Lights. Not to mention he is all about living a healthy lifestyle and is a personal trainer. Just look at those abs ladies.

Although Medeles love is to always entertain, he is focusing on his music now and into the new year. In 2015 expect an EP, a music video and a promotional tour.

I caught up with Jesse Medeles for an exclusive interview with Glambergirlblog.com. Check out some excerpts from our interview below:

Jesse Medeles on meeting music producer J2:

“J2, when I got here to Los Angeles, California, a friend introduced us. And I’d started training down here and it was a word of mouth, ‘oh Jesse can do major transformations,’ stuff like that. And a friend of mine was like, ‘oh you got to be trained by Jesse,’ and he knew J2. So we kind of started training together and we became family really, really quick and I told him I do music, and I’m just like record a short demo for me and I’ll train you for free and we’ll kind of like brothers. I didn’t realize the magnitude for the celebrity status that he had. I didn’t realize how epic he was at that time. I thought he was like a regular producer because he was really humble and outgoing and one day we were just talking in the studio and he heard me in the studio, real fast he called his manager and told her, ‘oh my god, I think I found my Latino artist, and he’s amazing, and he has the look, he got this,’ and that’s how this came about. From there, it was all natural. We had a great chemistry in the studio. We wrote together and created really good stuff together and it was epic. I’m very grateful for that.”

Jesse Medeles on acting versus performing music and type cast roles:

“What Jesse feeds off of, what’s just passion, what fuels his fire is entertaining, entertaining people. It could be through acting, it could be through music, I just love both. Like when I’m on set and can take myself out of Jesse and can commit 100% to the actor it fuels me because I know it’s going to entertain somebody. When I’m doing my performances and I want to put up a show, I want to be, do you remember back in the day at the MTV awards when you would wait every year to watch them because of those epic performances, they were so amazing, and I always wanted to do that. So what I do at my shows I bring back nice performances like that so I kind of like both of them.”

“The acting side, what I do love about acting is I want to represent Latinos the right way. They always try to give us the gang banger or the army solider, or the bad guy and my manager is always laughing at me because I type cast on a lot of roles and it’s not because I’d like, ‘Oh I’ve done this so i don’t do that anymore,’ no I want to take me out of the stereotype. When I did “Alone Yet Not Alone,” I played a native Indian where I actually learned the native language and I was educated by real Indians and after that in “The Guilty Innocent” I played a regular guy. It was originally for a white guy but the director Jamie Marshall, and Catherine Hardwicke, she’s done like the movies “Twilight,” they done stuff like”Olympus Has Fallen,” and many, many movies. They believed in me so much they gave me the opportunity to do “The Guilty Innocent” and I was very grateful because it’s an all white American movie and I’m like a Latino there, so I always told my manager, I always wanted to take myself out of the stereotype and I think now I played the native Indian, I played the gangster, I played the army solider but at the same time I played the regular high school guy. So that’s one thing I always wanted to do as an actor to is kind of take me out and not be desperate. I believe in quality over quantity.” 

Jesse Medeles on his new music:

“The two records are not really out yet. 2015 the promotional tour begins for “Viva,” my first one with the music video right after , we’re going to decide what will be the next single. But we kind of put them out there so the public could start hearing my sound but I did do a mini tour with Jamie Awad, so we had to have something out there, but “Viva” stands for empowerment, it stands for multicultural type of song, like a world song. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from come have a toast with me. And it’s about no judgement, it’s about equality. You could be young or older, it doesn’t matter who you are, come have a good time with me. So “Viva,” it also has a Latino phrase, it’s not my phrase, it’s a Latino phrase, it’s a world phrase that says, “pa riba, pa bajo, pal centro y pa dentro,” I kind of wanted to introduce it into the black communities, white communities, Filipino communities, every culture and every culture is so beautiful so why not have a song that us Latinos can have and we tell the world like come have a toast with us, let’s have a good time. So that song is more about dance, have a good time, if you have any problems, forget about them. That’s what “Viva” is about. “Sucia” is more a song that everybody has that little naughty side to them in their mind but “Sucia” you can take it both way. Like “Sucia” is a very sexy song and it’s a very empowering type of song too…it’s basically about telling a girl to show me your naughty side but at the same time it’s going to be how that girl takes that naughty side, you can take it two ways; you could take it in the innocent way or you could take it the wrong way it’s how your mind takes it.” 

Check out all the music from Jesse Medeles at reverbnation.com/jessemedeles. Also be sure to follow Jesse Medeles on social media @JesseMedeles and head over to his official music site at www.jessemedeles.com.

Take a listen to Jesse Medeles single “Viva” below and let me know what you think in the comments.

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