"You can have a prejudice and say that urban music is crap or you can assume that what we do is the new thing. If you don't like a style of music that interests so many people, it's because there's something you're not understanding," says freestyler and Red Bull Batalla 2014 champion G Sony, who chatted with journalist Facundo Arroyo at Espacio Ñ at the Book Fair.
Last year, in the same cycle of talks organized by Ñ Magazine, the rapper had anticipated that he was working on funk, soul and pop songs. "What I have of great physically, is also reflected in the size of the heart," he warns now and says that he finally made love songs.
"On the 18th we released Miranos, which is a piece of melodic music. Talk about when you give everything to a person who leaves and you are left with nothing. I shouldn't say it, but well, I'm going to advance this and I'm already saying everything: it's piano and voice. Nothing else," he said.
G-Sony: "I am a freestyler one hundred percent, and I will now include the objects that show me," he said on the stage of the Espacio Ñ of the Book Fair. Photo: Federico Imas
His name is Gonzalo Rodríguez, he was born in 1993 and is from Merlo, in Greater Buenos Aires. But everyone calls him G Sony. "Since I was 14 rapping I've been rapping, I'm 30 and I still love it. Freestyle is beautiful, healthy, fun and also helps to compose", he says and explains: "The lyrics are very important in music and in the new album we do something out of the boxes that come listening to me, but also from that place it has a lot to do, with a futuristic sound".
On July 15 they present it live at the West Auditorium, in Haedo, and it will be their first show with a live band, he says proudly. Some time ago began a period of transitions, personal, artistic and musical. "I had to change mentally, physically and emotionally to be given this moment," he evaluates and says that he lost almost 40 kilos in two and a half months: "I went from 182 to 139. Because changes start in the mind, that modifies your environment for the better and you can do things better."
Your best moment
In that transition path, he says that this is "the best moment" of his career "so far". And he reflects: "Betting on playing with a band gives a next level to the urban movement, and that's what is happening, and it was the moment, because it gives visibility, so the world returns to focus on Argentine music. Urban music is no longer so, it's pop, which comes from popular".
While talking, every now and then he hums something, it comes naturally. His voice is melodic, crystal clear. Of the debate about whether autotune is good or bad, which is the argument of many older rockers against trap, rap and urban music, he shoots: "Even Charly García must have used. Luis Miguel uses insurance."
G-Sony: "On the 18th we released 'Miranos', which is a piece of melodic music. It talks about when you give everything to a person who leaves and you're left with nothing." Photo: Federico Imas
He explains simply that it is only an audio processor, "a tool for the voice" and that "you have to know music to use autotune. There are those who increase it a lot. I use it live, minimally, because it helps me get there with the air."
As a closing of Saturday night, the last of the Book Fair, he sang some songs: the melodic Lágrimas, Punto final, ¿Te olvidaste?, which he composed with Lautaro López and among other gems the lyrics say "you continue to see my stories from your fake account" and, for the first time live, Unstable.
Its loyal audience, which overflowed the confectionery of the Espacio Ñ in the central hall of La Rural, along with people of all ages and musical tastes, enjoy the show. "I'm a freestyler one hundred percent, and I'm going to include now the objects that show me," he says and puts the cherry on the cake.
With humor, rhythm and charisma, the audience brings him keys, cigarette packs, books, posters of Messi and he improvises. Girls, kids, gentlemen, many boys and girls participate. "People clap their hands when they hear G Sony leaving the soul," he rhymes in closing. And it's true.
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