He found himself in the dark during a time of sadness. A seven-year relationship had just ended. He didn't have the money to pay the electric bill. So he decided he wanted to make an album. 

Norma Monserrat Bustamante Laferte lived in the Escandón neighborhood of Mexico City, in an old building where she received electricity bills for amounts she couldn't explain or pay: “Obviously, I didn't have any money. I sang in bars.”

They took the electricity meter, and he was left in the dark. Only then did he understand why his bill was so high: “They took the meter, and the power went out in the building. The elevator, the parking garage—everything was connected to my apartment.”

Almost as if to set things right, Mon Laferte decided to plug an extension cord into the outlet in the parking lot. She stretched the extension cord as far as it would go to reach her apartment. She plugged in her computer and a lamp, and began composing.

With 931.7 million streams on streaming platforms, the Latin Grammy winner looks back on that song as a hit: “I was able to pay the electricity bill,” she recalls with a laugh.

Source: Interview with Jordi Rosado.

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