Héctor Buitrago and Andrea Echeverrí are ready to put the Yucatecan capital to sing, with the hits of the Aterciopelados and their newest music, which they will present this Sunday the 15th, at 8 pm in the Plaza Grande as part of the Mérida Fest.
The band will meet the Yucatecan public for the first time.
The group told the newspaper that they will not miss the songs “Baracunata”, “Florecitota rockera”, “Bolero falaz”, “Rompecabezas”, among other hits.
“Fortunately we are fine, preparing for the trip starting tonight,” said the musician, who said that before reaching Yucatecan land, they will be in Cancun for one day, arriving in Mérida on Saturday.
Buitrago said that they are going to play all the Aterciopelados classics and that they will have time to show something new like the version of “I have come to ask you for forgiveness” since they have been invited to participate in the tribute album to Juan Gabriel.
Members
The five members of Aterciopelados are Andrea, the vocalist, who also plays the guitar. Héctor plays the bass and is a composer. Paula van Hissenhoven is on keyboards and choirs, LeonardoCasteblanco is guitarist and Daniel Acuti, for his part, plays drums.
The musician said that Los Aterciopelados were the backdrop for bands like Soda Estereo in the past, recalling that the musical project began thirty years ago, a journey that has entailed a variety of musical changes, exploration of sounds and themes, in search of records that he has been interested in developing in the different moments of the group’s life, trying to follow his own path of velvety sounds.
“We want to continue exploring new sounds, new forms, new messages,” he said.
He considered that his messages of ecology or feminism make people “identify a lot” with the group, being those topics that they began to explore 20 years ago and that are now on the table.
Aterciopelados has a varied audience, this is visible in its concerts attended by audiences that heard the fury of rock in Spanish in the nineties, but also younger generations.
Héctor explained that they could call their production alternative rock and that they experiment with mixtures of Latin American, electronic, bolero, even ranchera music.
He said that he likes Latin American music and has also composed songs with Andean folkloric rhythms. “We also like modern music, electronic music,” he added.
The authors of the lyrics are Andrea and him, he says. Each one writes their songs and sometimes together.
Hector recalled that their work has led them to have 3 Latin Grammys, an award for which they have been nominated several more times. “Receiving these awards is an encouragement to continue working,” he said. However, he added: “There are people who tell us that our songs lifted them out of a depression, they have grown with it or that it helped them at some important moment in their lives. Those are the nice prizes”.
He said that after the pandemic the group is good at meeting, appreciating the public and sharing their music with them, enjoying the moments of the concert. “That is what we want to live there in Merida, that we enjoy it, that we enjoy it a lot. May we sing, dance and leave behind everything that we experienced in those two years of fear and meet again to embrace each other thanks to music ”, he concluded. —CLAUDIA SIERRA MEDINA.
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