Baby Yors
Baby Yors just has dropped “Like a Gun,” his most raw, revealing, and danceable release to date. The video was also directed, produced, choreographed, styled, and edited by Baby. Baby Yors lives in New York City, he studied dancing, music and theater. Baby is originally from Argentina. An artist of Spanish, Native American, German, Chinese, and French heritage, Baby possesses a broad view of various musical and cultural landscapes.
Video: “Like A Gun”
What inspired you to create your song “Like a Gun”?
The beauty and mystery of a man’s bulge. The weapon-like qualities of a penis.
What is next for the upcoming months?
I am working on my first album, "Americano," which is set for release this summer and will include a lot of thrilling visuals, poems, dance, fashion, and more surprises.
Are you planning to collaborate with any other artist?
Usually, I don’t. In the past, I flirted with the idea, but it never felt right. That said, the answer now is yes! I've been having a lot of conversations with my friend Freakquencee, an incredible woman rapper whose work I’ve admired for years. We’ve been talking about working together forever, but more recently, we’ve been discussing my new album, and it feels like we’re finally in sync for a collaboration. I don't want to force it, but if this is indeed the right time and project, I trust that I’ll hear the song that needs her right away.
What is the best song you have ever released? Why?
I really don’t know, and I couldn’t release any music for a while, so I have so much music that hasn’t been heard unless you were at my live shows. My best one is always the newest one I am finishing up. So, I think my best songs are now on a notebook in my studio. Otherwise, I don’t have a favorite.
What kind of singer would you classify yourself as?
One that can’t be put in a category. That’s something I have no interest in. I don't want to be a cohesive brand with a cohesive sound in a world where every artist and their mother are doing that. I think that truthfulness must be paramount when you are creating, and if you are in the moment pushing the limits, then you often surprise yourself. You might do things you’ve never done before. That excites me on a personal level and also as an audience member.
What’s your creative process?
It seems to get more and more minimal. I feel like quarantine has shown me how much I can do on my own and how that changes everything. I like to explore a lot. Sometimes I start with the piano, sometimes with the guitar, and sometimes with an essay. I really like writing essays on whatever I want to talk about. That gives room for depth and for finding out things in conversation with myself. Sometimes writing can feel like an external voice dictating what you write. I like that feeling because it almost becomes spiritual.
What made you decide to pursue a career in entertainment?
I think it was a lot of things at once. But I also think that the most important things are the ones that came along the way and made me keep on going. The beginning is too blurry to matter that much today.
Here are some reflections.
Theater and music were probably a refuge, an outlet to my overflowing energy, or a perfect excuse to leave my hometown. The stage was the only place where I felt powerful.
Maybe I needed attention as a child, or I needed friends. I was perhaps lured by Hollywood's mysticism and that inspired me. Maybe it was just chance and luck, the right stimulus at the right time and place.
And then in the middle, so much happened. Plays, songs, dances, performances, auditions, movies, scripts…ways of learning something new, and I think that kept the curiosity alive. Now it’s just a way of living and creating. So, I don’t know exactly why I started other than having a few hypotheses, but I know that I stuck with it because it allows me to deepen my self-knowledge, I like to be around creative people, and I get to create and live in my freedom daily.
What has been the best performance of your career so far?
Probably one where I got a feather tattooed on my ribcage, live on stage, while I sang my songs, lying on my back, at a concert with Treble, a community of singers and musicians in New York.
What is your life motto?
The worst among us talk about people, the mediocre among us talk about events, and the greatest among us talk about ideas.
Can you link us with your social media’s?
https://www.instagram.com/babyyors/
All other links at the bottom of my website:
Video: “Like A Gun”
CREW CREDITS:
Photography: Robbie Joseph
Fashion Stylist: Baby Yors
(Stills) In Clothes by Zaid Affas
Tearsheets: Xi Lang, Contributor, PhotoBook Magazine
Interview by Cailyn Rieser, Contributor, PhotoBook Magazine
