Emilia Vexler
06/20/2020 - 19:03
- Clarín.com
- Society
“To the people below, if they appear, I will not even look at them. I can be wrong. If there was no music, those people would not dance, yes, perfect. But I went to the Police to explain the situation. They told me I could play music but not make 'annoying noises'. Ready. I understood. What does not go are the insults in the comments. We have to talk. Today I will have the doors of the two balconies closed. It is a silent party to continue streaming. They don't have to come. I'm not going to light up the building. Nor the balconies of those who dance anything. But the party doesn't stop . ”
The one who says this to Clarin is Pato Zambrano, better known as “El DJ de Recoleta”. He became famous in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic because music happened -something that he does very well- and many of his neighbors went out dancing on the sidewalk. Quarantine did not matter. Some arrived with drinks in hand. An open air bowling alley? The new normal of the night?
Social networks criticized it until it became a trend. A small group celebrated to entertain those who cannot go to Tequila or Africa, two bowling alleys that concentrate the "cheto" public of that area. The rest accused him of encouraging porteños "to violate isolation."
The party was silent. The block where Zambrano lives, this time without people. (Marcelo Carroll)
Among all the stories emerged in quarantine, Zambrano is not a makeshift. At 44, he has a music company for events and decided to organize himself during the pandemic. He set up chat groups between neighbors, so that there is the music they wanted to hear. They agreed to do it every Saturday and Sunday from 18 to 19.
At first, he said, "they didn't pogo." He defended those who were in front of that building in Talcahuano 1283. He saw them dance by two or alone, on the sidewalk and in the street, 1.5 meters away. Like the violinist on the roof, the charm was the themes he combines and launches. But this Saturday no one came. How he wanted.
Pato Zambrano, the DJ of Recoleta. (Germán García Adrasti)
"Today there is a flag. They say that people will come to dance here later. I won't even be there. I will be in my study. Two blocks from home, so they can't judge me for violating the quarantine. As a citizen I am doing everything right. Nothing to motivate them to come. Nothing, "he reaffirms, as he passes by his father's house" that he is ill and needs assistance. "
It is 6pm and the silent party had to start. But the flag took her half an hour. "Out of respect for those who demonstrate," she said on Instagram. Zambrano started with the National Anthem in court key . They would follow I Am What I Am, by Sandra Mihanovich; I remember you , from Cae; I love you so much , from the infallible Sergio Denis; I am what I am (Gloria Gaynor) and I gotta feeling (Black Eyed Peas).
The second floor balcony, where Zambrano lives, with the blinds down this Saturday. (Marcelo Carroll)
"Here they even made the police come when the DJ was playing," says one of the residents of the building opposite where Pato lives. They are a small group, the only one now, of four people who went down to see what was happening. The DJ's playlist was heard on Instagram - the live one from his @patozambrano account was seen by more than 1,300 people - and on the street, strong for only five minutes. But it wasn't him. It was a neighbor from the same block, listening to her with the windows open. At minute six, there was silence.
With no one on the street now - perhaps due to the cold, perhaps the increase in cases of coronavirus - the party just didn't stop.