El reconocido artista nacional, Américo, recordó cómo fue su llegada al grupo “Alegría”.
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00:00You started with Alegría, super small, there we are seeing images. Tell me a little bit about how you got to Alegría, because this was not easy and apparently there was a somewhat complex story with the vocalist. Tell me what happened.
00:13I met the vocalist of the Alegría group, he lived in Arica, we were neighbors and very close friends of the family. And he invites me to an award that the Alegría group had in his hometown, Punitaqui, there next to Ovalle.
00:30And I was invited, actually my father invited me and he took me. And I sing some cumbias too, from a very cumbiera city, Arica, from this techno cumbia, between Peru, Bolivia and our north.
00:44So it was practically the same style that they did and they were hooked on my way of singing and everything. And then a few months later they have some problems with the vocalist, who was also the leader of the band and everything. And they separated.
01:05And they, as a band, call me. And I, yes, come on, with everything, I'm going, happy.
01:10Did you know that they were taking you as a vocalist or had you already been warned?
01:14Yes, it was a mix, I knew, but they also had it all well organized and the truth is that it was not. Among all, I think we were all cheating.
01:26And why, what happened when you got there?
01:28I got to Punitaqui the first rehearsal and we were in that and suddenly Pascual, I'm going to say Pascual Ramírez, a tremendous musician and traditional of the techno cumbia, heard the guys of the band say, Pascual arrived, Pascual arrived.
01:43And I'm like, this is like, I'm the lover and something like that.
01:47Ah, they hid you?
01:48Hide, hide. And they hid me, they hid me. So Pascual, you should know that when you arrived, I was hidden and I heard that they were talking and at that point very determined that the separation was going to be or not.
02:05And I remember I heard him say, who is going to sing? He was very interested, who is going to sing?
02:10No, no, if we already have someone, yes, they told me that Mingo Américo, yes, no, but he can't be.
02:16And you listening to all this discussion?
02:18Yes, I was listening to all this, yes, no, if he already arrived, it was like, very dramatic, very dramatic.
02:23Until, well, there it ended up breaking the relationship between them and I have to occupy this place as a vocalist of the band.
02:35And a very nice season begins.
02:37You did 11 albums?
02:3811 albums, I also pushed him to come to Santiago, to make a career here and it started to go very, very well.
02:47For his part, Pascual also builds his band, Pascual and his joy, the original name, but hey, Pascual and his joy.
02:54And also a very nice career, to this day it has gone very well, he continues to play, but the entrance was very tense for me.