From NPR music, this is Alt Latino. I'm Felix Contreras.

I've been a British musician Elvis Costello, you are listening to on Alt Latino.

His 1978 album, this year's model, is considered one of the great rock albums of that era,

a stripped-down, powerful album full of very

literate songwriting and plenty of In Your Face attitude.

That is a track from a new album that reimagines that classic album completely in Spanish.

This is the Colombian musician Juanis covering Pump It Up.

The record is called Spanish Model and it features 16 tracks performed by 16 different

Latin musicians and singers who recorded new vocals over the original tracks performed

by Elvis Costello and the attractions

almost 45 years ago.

Multi-Grami and Latin Grammy-winning producer Sebastian Chris worked with Elvis Costello on the album,

and they joined me via Zoom to talk about the record.

I started the interview by asking Elvis Costello and Sebastian Chris, where the idea

came from. I think it came like a bolt of lightning to me. We had a reason to remix one of the

songs for a television show for the HBO series The Deuce. Somewhere in that discovery

that the tapes were in good order, I had this,

I want to say dream, came to me in a moment and I said, why not every track? And then, by the way,

how about in Spanish? And I waited for Sebastian to tell me that it was a crazy idea.

But I knew that he had the experience, having been born in Latin America and brought up in very

Spanish city like Miami, and had worked with so many great Spanish-speaking artists,

who better could advise me whether this was a foolhardy

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