Marco Romero: “We must open doors to young Creoles”

Peruvian singer and songwriter Marco Romero He has been working on what will be his next album, which will include collaborations with Renata Flores (Mi lugar bendito), César Vega (Me enamoré), the romantic waltz with Susan Ochoa and the one he has just recorded with Yahaira Plasencia, which will be accompanied of a video clip and that, in his words, will be innovative and will give people something to talk about.

“The launch should be between September and October and the video will be recorded on a well-known beach. It is a very catchy celebration with a cool choir that will also have other sounds that will make people come out to have fun and dance” account regretting that a certain sector repeats adjectives against the sauce boat.

“What I see is little capacity for analysis in a sector and when that happens, they begin to repeat what they hear and that does not favor the artist. I think that Yahaira from its beginning to today has evolved a lot. Apart from that he has been doing things well. We’ve all had moth moments that some like and others don’t, but we’ve all been through it. I too have been 20, 25 and 30 years old. Now I am 48 and well lived and I can look at life from another perspective. The issue is when they grab you by the boxing bag and they want to hit you all the time and when that happens people don’t see or have the ability to see how good the artist is doing. I chose Yahaira Plasencia because I love what he does. She also unites us with a neighborhood bond, we are both from El Rímac, she lived in Marañón and I in Chiclayo. Logically, when I walked with my friends from the block, she, for sure, had not been born, ”he adds.

Romero, who during the World Cup in Russia made the song ‘Because I believe in you’ emblematic, acknowledges that what the new voices need most is the support of the media, mainly the radio and perhaps “without detracting from the classic songs of the Creole repertoire, new compositions can be heard in fresh voices. I think we have to open the doors to young people so that they can be stars, stars of the shows. There are a lot of talented people like Aldair Sánchez, Pamela Abanto, Maicol Abanto, Katherine Cuadros, Carlos Castillo, by the way, I think that right now I risk saying that Carlos is the best voice in his traditional style”, he says.

He mentions that “unfortunately, the communication and dissemination mechanisms are few, the promotion spaces for them are zero. Now there is a new Afro-Peruvian music group called Qué tal Afro, some very good guys, there is also Nero Lvigi who does fusion, Peruvian music with hip hop and reggaeton. Logically there are traditional things and there are things with fusion, but always under the watchful eye of Peruvian music as a starting point of reference and I think that’s what’s important”.

From his showcase on National radio (where he has been for ten years) he calls on his colleagues to take risks and make room for current productions. “You can’t imagine the talent in the province.” On his new album, he will feature a zamacueca version of Fruta Fresca by Lucho Quequezana and the guitar of the late Ramón Stagnaro. “It will be beautiful and we are going to present it on September 15 at the Bianca Convention Center.”

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