Our next guest is a Latin global superstar.
One of the biggest names in music.
Please welcome, for the first time on our show, Maluma.
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Hey, how are you, Ellen?
I am fantastic.
It's so nice to meet you and have you here.
And you have--
Finally.
And you have awesome taste.
I love-- I saw your house in Architectural Digest.
You have amazing taste.
Thank you very much.
How are you doing?
How is everything?
Everything is great.
I'm so happy to have you here.
And I wish you were here in person.
But I'm happy to have you any way we get you.
People love you.
I mean, everybody is going crazy that we have you on the show.
People love you.
And you know that.
But are you used to the screaming.
Everywhere you go, I just see people screaming at you.
You never get used to it.
I just feel grateful with all my fans
around the world for giving me that love and that support.
It's crazy because right now, that we
live in this COVID world, I just want
to go out and start touring.
But well, hopefully, soon it's going to happen.
But I feel very, very grateful with my fans for being there.
Yeah, well, they're there.
And that's the thing you miss the most?
You love touring?
I really love touring.
It's my favorite thing.
Going to the studio and touring--
those are my favorite things to do in my career.
But now, you're starting to act as well.
Because you just did your first movie with Jennifer Lopez.
And is that something--
you've always wanted to do is act?
Yeah, of course.
Yeah, since I was a child.
I remember, doing these little, these small roles
in high school.
And all my friends, they used at laugh of me
because they thought that I was going to be only
a professional soccer player.
But then, I started singing.
And they saw that I love acting too.
And now, for the first time, I'm going
to have the chance, the opportunity
to be in this big movie with Jennifer and Owen Wilson--
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--which is going to be out on February next year.
So yeah, I'm pretty happy.
This first chance that I have is huge.
So yeah, I feel happy to be part of it.
Yeah, what a great first movie to be a part of.
And you're only 27 years old.
This is your 10th year in the business.
So how did you start so young?
I mean, you said you were in school
and did plays and singing.
Is that how you started?
Yeah.
I mean, when I was pretty young, I used to play soccer.
Of course, my family, they all love music.
My grandfather-- he was a pretty big collector like salsa music.
He loved salsa music.
So I have that kind of music in my DNA.
So everything started because of my grandfather.
Then I started writing my own songs
when I was in high school.
And then as a birthday gift, my aunt,
she gave me this session to go and record my own songs.
So for the first time when I got into the studio,
I just fall in love with it.
It was in 2010.
And it's been already almost 11 years, 10 years,
of being in the game and just starting to grow.
Wow.
And, Maluma, that's not your real name.
Maluma is your stage name.
What is Maluma?
Yeah, yeah.
My name is Juan, Juan Luis, Juan Luis Londoño, right?
But then Maluma is the first two letters
of my mom's, and my sisters, and my dad's name.
My mom's name is Marlli--
so it's M-A. Then my dad's is Luis--
L-U. And then, Manuela, my sister.
There you go.
There's my dad and my mom.
[LAUGHTER]
That's so sweet that you did that.
They must be so proud of you.
I mean, they're my engine for everything.
I love them so much.
And they're my biggest motivation.
Is everyone still in Columbia?
Is that where everyone lives?
Well, right now, I'm here in Miami.
I'm staying here with my mom.
And then my dad is there in Medellín.
He's taking care of different business.
We have a company there.
We have a foundation there.
And my sister, Manuela, she's the president
of the foundation.
So we still have the foundation and everything
going on in Colombia.
But right now, I'm spending some time in Miami with my mom.
Oh, that's great.
That's sweet.
So People magazine named you one of the sexiest men alive.
And then now, this is really incredible.
You're the first man on the cover of Elle magazine.
That is--
Yay.
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Thank you.
I mean, that's a big deal to be the first man
on the cover of Elle.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
Yeah, for me it was a big deal.
When my team told me that that was going to happen,
I couldn't believe it.
Then we flew to Los Angeles.
We took the pictures over there.
And then when I saw the magazine for the first time,
it was almost impossible to believe it.
But yeah, it was a great thing.
Very, very cool.
All right, we're going to take a break.
I want to talk to you because you and I love animals.
I heard what you have going on in Colombia.
And it's so cool.
But we'll take a break.
And more with Maluma after this.
All right.
So tell us about your farm in Colombia.
How much land do you have?
Have you always loved horses?
I saw a picture with a baby--
I mean, was that a newborn horse that you're with?
Yeah, I have a farm there in Colombia.
It's like my favorite place in the world.
Every time I go there, I try to reconnect with my soul,
with my spirit, everything.
It's like living the roots, you know?
Every time I go there and I have the opportunity
to be there with my family.
It's everything to me.
We have 25 horses there.
We have cows.
We have goats.
We have chickens.
We have a lot of animals over there.
So yeah, I really love being at the farm with my family.
Yeah, that was a donkey you were holding a minute ago.
That wasn't the baby horse.
I know the difference.
It's a mini-donkey.
Yeah.
There was a--
We have this kind of mini-horses.
But they are no ponies.
They are so small.
And they're so beautiful.
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That's a baby, right?
That's a Friesian
Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
But that's a Friesian.
It's like a horse from Germany.
Yeah, I know what those are.
I think Martha Stewart has those.
And she doesn't take them outside
because the sunshine affects the coat or something like that,
right?
They only come out at night to keep their coats shiny.
Uh-huh.
We take care of the horses there.
They are like my children, all of them.
I love them so much.
And I miss them.
I can't wait to go back to Colombia and see them.
Yeah, I know.
I heard that you actually milk the cows.
You actually do all the work on the farm.
That you don't shower.
You're actually--
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That must be to get away from all the screaming
and everything.
That you're just on the farm doing the work.
That is your meditation.
Yeah, I'm not going to lie.
Sometimes, I forget to take a shower--
[LAUGHTER]
--when I'm at the farm.
But it's OK.
We have a little lake over there.
So we like swimming and go with the horses there.
It's a pretty nice place that we have there.
Yeah, all right.
Well, whenever you want me there, you let me know.
Were you going, actually?
Well, you have to come to Colombia.
Have you been there or not?
No, I've never been.
You should come to Medellín.
It's such a beautiful place.
OK, yeah.
My friend, Claudia, and I will come see you.
So let's talk about your new project--
I'm saying her name because she's in love with you.
She works here.
[LAUGHTER]
Let's talk about 7 Days in Jamaica.
It's an audiovisual album.
So tell us about that.
Well, 7 Days in Jamaica is my new album.
We did seven songs in seven days there in Jamaica.
And it was great being there and going back to my roots,
you know?
That at the beginning, I started listening to salsa music,
then reggae music, dancehall music.
Then reggaeton started growing in Colombia.
But the first genres that I heard for the first time
in my life were salsa and reggae.
So I feel very connected with Jamaica.
We had this experience over there-- a week in Jamaica.
And that's why I wanted to call my album, #7DJ--
7 Days in Jamaica.
That's fantastic, can't wait for that.
All right, before we go, I have a little surprise for you.
So your hit song, "Hawái" has gone platinum 14 times.
Someone's going to hand you something in a minute.
What?
No way!
Surprise!
[LAUGHTER]
What?
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No.
[INAUDIBLE] Oh, my God.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Oh.
My mom is here.
Ma, look what we got.
[LAUGHTER]
So nice, thank you.
Wow.
This is crazy.
That's so great.
All right.
Maluma's new album, 7 Days in Jamaica,
is available everywhere music is sold.
And he's going to perform for us after the break.
We'll be right back with music from Maluma.