"Sola", by Tiago PZK, a crude story about gender violence

(CNN Spanish) -

Tiago PZK is one of the revelations of urban music in Argentina.

At 19, he has become known in the freestyle world and is now working on his first album.

His first single, “Flow de Barrio”, has been successful among trap fans.

However, he assures that he wants to escape from the labels and promises a production with different genres, including punk, rap, reggaeton and even ballads.

The last one is the style of “Sola”, a song that narrates the way in which her mother was a victim of gender violence by her father and that became part of a United Nations campaign to make visible that scourge they suffer. millions of women in the world.

In an interview with Marcelo Longobardi, the young artist told the story behind that issue and why he decided to forgive his father.

Marcelo Longobardi: When I heard "Sola", the first thing I wrote down was a phrase that said "the bruises are not covered by mascara" (...) And there I learned the story of that song dedicated to your mother, a victim of gender violence .

And I knew that that song had been a deep relief for you, like a kind of catharsis, right?

Tiago PZK:

When I was a child I lived through many situations of gender violence, many tense situations that mark you almost bordering on trauma.

In the same way they taught me a lot of positive things.

If you have one of those experiences, you have two options or repeat the story or you take it and transform it into something good.

So that taught me how I really wanted to be and how I didn't want to be.

My mother is a very strong person, but she could never speak, she could never get him out.

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Marcelo Longobardi: I want to know what your parents thought when they saw the video.

Tiago PZK:

My mother started crying a lot.

Marcelo Longobardi: Why?

Tiago PZK:

Because she couldn't talk about it with anyone.

Not even with his own family he could comment.

And I also kept it to myself, because it also made me ashamed.

When something like this happens to you, you are afraid all the time, afraid to speak up and something will happen to you.

When I stopped having that fear was when I wrote that topic.

She told me: "Thank you for doing it for me."

Marcelo Longobardi: Allow me to ask you a very personal question.

Were you and your little sister also victims of your father's violence?

Tiago PZK:

In some cases, yes, for wanting to defend my mother.

But my little sister was a baby at the time.

Thank God he didn't experience it, the way I saw it.

Marcelo Longobardi: I know that that song has become a very inspiring one for many people who have experienced the same situation.

Tiago PZK:

Every day I receive messages from people telling their story.

I think that is reassessing, I spoke and that is good.

And today many people are encouraged and do not remain silent.

With this I broke chains, I broke chains, and I speak for many people also with the tattoo (which he has on his neck).

Marcelo Longobardi: What does your dad say?

Tiago PZK:

He tells me that people insult him when they find out that he is my father.

But hey, he says he doesn't care about that as long as I'm okay and it helps me get rid of all the bad things that I had in my head, he's happy.

A style without labels

Marcelo Longobardi: Those of us who belong to another generation want to understand your world, which is basically related to social networks, YouTube and the telephone.

Tiago PZK:

Yes, more than anything at the moment, which is all very virtual.

We are in a pandemic and everything that happens on social networks cannot be translated into real life as it was two or three years ago.

In my world, for example, this movement started to explode very recently here in Argentina.

Nobody listened to trap 4 years ago and at one point it exploded ... before the virus appeared there were festivals.

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Marcelo Longobardi: Is you trap?

Tiago PZK:

I don't know if it's trap.

I do not call myself with the word rag.

I feel like I make music.

What I'm aiming at from now on, with “Flow de barrio”, which was the first single from my album, is that the whole album be different.

In other words, there is a punk song on the album, there is an R&B song, a rap song, a trap song, there are songs that are ballads.

Marcelo Longobardi: What do you tell about in “Flow de barrio”?

Tiago PZK:

It is the experience of my neighborhood.

That song for people who don't know me and who want to know where I come from, is the perfect description (…) I think the concept of “Neighborhood Flow” is something worldwide because anyone in the world can identify their people, their experiences and their neighborhood customs.

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In addition to “Sola” and “Flow de barrio”, Tiago PZK has launched several collaborations with exponents of urban music in Argentina such as Lit Killah, Rusher King, Seven Kayne, Tobi and Bhavi.

Most of the productions came to light during the quarantine, a period in which he began to shape the album that is coming.