Sebastian Yatra

Sebastián Yatra (English) - under 1200 words

Sebastián Yatra is a dashing, bilingual Colombian American multi-talent who can’t be boxed into one genre. He lets his music lead with passion, his words evoke emotions, and his mellifluous voice melts hearts across the globe. And on his third album, DHARMA, the entire world will fall in love with Yatra, one of the reigning kings of la nueva ola.

“Dharma is accepting your reality, your destiny,” says Yatra of the word he chose to title his album, a term he discovered reading Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. “It’s everything that comes to your life that’s amazing because of all the good that you do. You accept your reality and are not afraid that life is not perfect. When you enter a stage of dharma and you accept reality, you are what you are. And that’s it.”

Born in Medellín, Colombia, and moving to Miami, Florida at the age of 5, Yatra is the epitome of the Latinx experience–that of a Latin American as well as U.S.-raised one. His multidimensional experience directly influenced the music he listened to as a teen including Blink 182, Ricky Martin and everything in between. Eventually, he started songwrit

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Events featuring Sebastian Yatra

Mar 19, 2022
8:00pm — 9:05pm
Presented by
Samsung Galaxy + Billboard
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Medellin, ANT, COLOMBIA
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Pop