J Balvin is “excited” about his next album. He says it has “a lot of greatness” in it.
The 38-year-old Latin star has been hard at work on his sixth studio album – the follow-up to 2021’s ‘Jose’ – and while it doesn’t yet have a title or release date, reports suggest it will arrive in the fall, and Balvin insists it will be worth the wait because he has been keen to “reinvent” himself.
“I’m excited,” he told PEOPLE. It’s a lot of greatness.”
It will be his first album since becoming a first-time dad after welcoming son Rio with model girlfriend Valentina Ferrer in June 2021, and Balvin insists his life has completely changed in the past two years.
He adds, “A lot of things have changed. I’m just a different person. I grew up a little bit more. I still have a lot of things I have to adjust to … I have to change. Like definitely get in the space to take a minute and say, ‘We got to have fun and not everything is work.'”
Balvin recently released his new single ‘Dientes’ – a collaboration with Usher and DJ Khaled – which is an interpolation of Usher’s 2004 track ‘Yeah!’, and the musician hopes the song will resonate with fans around the world.
He added: “I’m Latino, but I make music for the whole world. I want people from Japan, people from Indonesia, people from Australia to connect with the music. I think [‘Dientes’] has done that.
Much of the star’s new album was recorded during a month-long trip to London, and Balvin previously told Billboard that the record was inspired by the city’s nightlife and that he actually tested many of the tracks in clubs there during the recording process.
