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For the song Eres para mí by Julieta Venegas, I'm finding conflicting lyrics on the web.
For one line in the song, I'm finding two versions:
El viento me lo dijo con un soplo suavecito
El viento me lo dijo con un soplo suavecillo
From reading the lips of the artist that sings this lyric (in the music video), it appears she's saying suavecillo.
However, I'm not finding anywhere on the web translations for either suavecito or suavecillo.
It is indeed quite complicated to distinguish whether Julieta Venegas says suavecito or suavecillo. I listened to the verse few times and I still cannot tell.
However, the diminutive for suave cannot be suavecillo. Instead, use suavecito. You cannot find this in the normal dictionary, since diminutives and superlatives normally are not listed there (its size would increase dramatically!).
Luckily, for this specific case we have RAE saying this in Twitter:
#RAEconsultas Como diminutivo de «suave» existen «suavecito» y «suavito». El superlativo es «suavísimo».
Contrary to what fedorqui states in his answer, you can rarely talk in binary terms (correct/incorrect) when addressing language use or, specially, dictionaries. Dictionaries' task is to exclusively establish which uses are the most common in any given language and describing them, not prescribing them.
Anyhow, the use of the diminutive suffix -illo (as in suavecillo)/-illa is actually widespread in Meridional Spanish as well as in other transitional dialects. The suffix -ico/-ica is also used in other regions of the country such as Jaén and Murcia. In addition to that, -ino/-ina is widespread in Asturias, -uco/-uca in Cantabria, etc. We have a pretty diverse language dialect-wise. We sometimes even use diminutives of diminutives: chiquitito, poquinina.
The confusion arises because we never hear the end of the word, as it overlaps with the next line, that starts with:
Y yo...
So we hear something like:
suaveci-- Y yo
In many Spanish speaking regions including Mexico, Y yo sounds exactly as -illo. That's why one could hear this as suavecillo. See this question and this Wikipedia article
In the release version (2:06) of the song, Anita Tijoux sings the El viento... line, and Julieta Venegas the following one. But when singing live you can hear Venegas recreating this overlapping effect by herself. Like here (2:20), here (2:20), and here (2:33).
If she could finish pronouncing the word she would certainly say suavecito, as she does in her song with that exact title (0:41) :)
As the other answers explained, suavecito is the standard diminutive for suave (soft). It can be understood as even softer than just soft.
As Hithere's answer said, the diminutive can also be form with -illo in some regions, which together with the overlapping effect may have led some people to think suavecillo was what's said in the song.
The songs says: Suavecito.
"Suavecillo" its a regular expression used on the north of the country (México).
The finish on words "illo" its so normal. "Plebillo" (Plebito), "Perrillo" (Perrito), etc.
Suavecillo is more vernacular, but almost not used in Mexico.
Julieta would certainly say "suavecito".
Suavecillo would be more Venezuelan.
