Just hours before the release of his eagerly awaited new studio album "TARACÁ", which comes out this Friday, March 13, Jorge Drexler continues to unveil songs from his new album.

Last night he performed on La Revuelta (TVE), with Jesús Bienvenido's comparsa DSAS3 - winner of the COAC 2026 - and presented a powerful rendition of "Las Palabras". Artist and comparsa left Broncano's audience speechless, in a demonstration of the brotherhood of the Carnivals of Cádiz and Montevideo.

Today, he releases a new song: an adaptation into Spanish of the emblematic track "O Que É, O Que É?" ("What is it, what is it?"), originally by Brazilian artist Gonzaguinha, as an album preview.

A vivid and contemporary reinterpretation, in collaboration with the Rueda de Candombe, that champions the joy of living and the beauty of observing the world through the eyes of a child, as an eternal learner in this life. With a vitalist and renewed approach, this interpretation highlights hope, authenticity, and the celebration of life in all its forms.

"To live and not be ashamed to be happy / to sing and sing and sing the beauty of being an eternal learner," proclaims the chorus, which has become the emotional heart of this version.

The song, recognized as one of the most emblematic anthems of Brazilian popular music, offers a modern production that respects its original essence while bringing it closer to a Spanish-speaking audience. Drexler's proposal combines sensitivity with the energy of the Rueda de Candombe drums. This project - Rueda de Candombe - is a collective born in Montevideo in 2024 and inspired by traditional Brazilian samba rodas, where this song is never absent from their repertoire. This is why Drexler chose this Montevideo group to reinterpret this Brazilian anthem. From this cross-pollination emerges a candombe-infused version that dialogues with both territories.

This release is accompanied by an emotional music video, directed by Joana Colomar and Rodrigo Méndez and edited by Maia De Zan Hatch, which juxtaposes original footage from the Drexler Prada family's Super-8 family archive, filmed by his father Gunther Drexler in Uruguay in the 1970s.

With this publication, Drexler once again builds bridges within the Ibero-American sphere, reclaiming the music that has shaped and inspired him, and projecting it into new contexts from a contemporary perspective, through a universal and perennial question: what is life?