2024-03-01 20:53:21
A very Cordoban album, with many Cordoban guests and of course it had to have its official presentation in Córdoba. Juan Ingaramo announced the date and ticket sales to show Welcome to Córdoba City, his most recent album dedicated to his city that also features “la Pepa” Brizuela, Jean Carlos and Ulises Bueno as guests.
The show is planned for Saturday, May 25, in what will be its first time at Quality Espacio. “We celebrate our homeland: Córdoba city,” the singer wrote on his Instagram account when making the formal announcement in the last few hours.
The 13 songs that make up the album make the film of the city where he grew up film. With the quartet as his main imprint, but also with reggaeton, pop and bolero, Ingaramo shows that his roots are still as intact as his curiosity.
Tickets will be on sale at ticketek.com.ar and the Quality Espacio box office (Cruz Roja 200). Prices range from $18,080 (standing field) to $22,600 (stalls).
In Welcome to Córdoba city, the Córdoba singer-songwriter once again played the card of his Córdoba identity, although this time like never before. With this release, the artist consolidates himself as one of the main references of Mediterranean pop and seals his love for the characteristic rhythm of the province with luxury collaborations and a sound that demands global scale.
A little history
The album is a direct reference to the musician’s early solo career. With 20 years of experience despite his youth, Ingaramo made his mark on the Córdoba scene as a teenage drummer. Then it was time to form his own bands and settle in Buenos Aires. It was a matter of time before the music did the rest: the man from Córdoba discovered himself as a composer and came to the front of the stage. There was no turning back.
But the first steps were not easy. At a time when the word “pop” still had connotations, Ingaramo opted for that label and even made it clear in his first solo album, Pop nacional (2014). Shortly before, he had been a pioneer with an idea that today may seem trite but illuminates the artist’s vision: an EP of quartet covers (another concept reviled in certain musical circuits at the beginning of this millennium) in which he played at recreating Rodrigo classics , La Mona Jiménez, Banda XXI or Jean Carlos. Name? Tunga tunga.
Like those artisans who polish their craft with hours of work and concentration, the singer-songwriter did not let anxiety win over him. In 2016 he released Músico, a work with which he redefined his profile as a live frontman and which gave him his first major radio milestone: Matemática, alongside Adrián Dárgelos. From that moment on, the industry began to see that something was happening with this charismatic and engaging man from Córdoba, who in addition to his fine image was beginning to show his credentials as a creator of great musical moments.
Two years later came Best Seller, a new significant leap in both popularity and critical relevance. That album was one of the most notable of 2018 and placed Ingaramo in a place of growing expectation. It was also the work that brought him together with Nico Cotton, the producer from whom he never parted again, and that gave him his most listened to song: Fuego y passion (another fundamental version of “Potro”).
When it seemed like things were going to blow up (at the Nueva Generación 2019 festival Ingaramo literally entered the stage on a motorcycle), the pandemic cut everything short. The man from Córdoba did not despair. In addition to being a father, he continued making important songs and collaborations. Thus, despite everything, his name grew in public consideration and it was no longer strange that he was linked to golden names in Latin American song, from Miranda! to Los Ángeles Azules or Los Auténticos Decadentes.
Over time, a new record milestone arrived, La Batalla (2021), and explicit confirmation: the man from Córdoba no longer intended to stay within the limits of the pop/indie song, not even in the urban music trends that he capitalized so well with. collaborations with Neo Pistea or Ysy A. From that moment on, the musician definitively embraced popular songs and dedicated himself to solidifying a profile as a massive artist that suits him naturally.
The accent as a registered trademark
By the time Welcome to Córdoba City unveils its final form, the Cordoba native has already achieved his own status that has him as a safe number in the annual Plaza de la Música program (which was full for the third consecutive time last December) and in numerous national and international festivals.
In 2022, with his Summer Pack of summer versions he made it clear that previous approaches to tunga-tunga such as Cuartefunk and Elfenomeno del mambo were not fortuitous sparks. In their shows, furthermore, the Mediterranean rhythm had already gained a decisive presence along with cumbia and other urban rhythms. Even Javier “la Pepa” Brizuela and Jean Carlos joined in to sing with him in his last performances in Córdoba.
That is why it did not attract attention when the artist assured that this fifth album was going to have more quartet. The producer, Cotton, contextualized it perfectly in dialogue with VOS: He is always one step ahead. When he told me about making a quartet album, I said ‘quartet? Are you sure?’ And suddenly the quartet began to become very popular, with these groups that are very good, and the truth is that Juan is a visionary.”
“He is a kid who is not only a great musician but also knows how to read trends a lot, he is always very ahead. Like reggaeton or cumbia, the quartet is an underappreciated genre in the world of musicians. And yet they are very difficult genres to do because the objective is often to make you dance, they are genres that are very linked to rhythm, and they are very complicated to do,” said the also collaborator of Knowing Russia, Nicki Nicole or Soledad, among others. artists.
Those words resonate especially when listening to the 12 songs on Welcome to Córdoba City. In addition to the luxury collaborations that are the three great songs recorded with “la Pepa”, Jean Carlos and Ulises Bueno (no longer as references, but as peers), the man from Córdoba leaves his mark on potential hits such as Abecedario or la ochentosa ( a la Gary, a la Pelusa) 60 months.
In the other half of the album, Ingaramo plays with his versatility and allows himself to show other characters. In La banda del ferneco he returns to the military of the quintessential provincial drink and anticipates a summer bolichero success, something that could also happen with the funky-electro Fanático.
Anímate is another hit that demands radio (and has Gabriela Tessio as another reference to Córdoba pop culture of the last 30 years), just like Two Strangers with Zoe Gotusso. Nothing in return shows him as a singer of boleros and rancheras and is a direct appeal to the Mexican public, while Ya I deleted your cell phone number is his greatest ballad to date.
The ending shows a slight twist. The man from Córdoba once again shows himself pliable for versions and chooses a classic of classics, Kiss by Kiss from the “Mandamás”. But when we all expect it to be the closing of a bomb with a lot of quartet dynamite, Ingaramo once again dresses up as an orchestra singer and reveals influences even from his childhood with an endearing bossa nova.
That mixture between certain languages typical of continental pop and the author’s song with this effusive embrace of tunga-tunga ends up marking a line that the actor (in the second season of The Kingdom) had already anticipated. In fact, the album seems to be the arrival point of a personal and artistic search of many years, and here it seems to have reached a place where no one else has been before.
The artist himself summarized it in a video that he published on his networks to anticipate the release of the album. While preparing a fernet with coca (in a ciborium, of course), Juan tells where it comes from and lists some characteristics that make Córdoba a place like no other. There appears the term “identity”, which the singer cites from the Wikipedia definition to appropriate that concept from his individuality.
“I, Juan Ingaramo, want to be unique, I want to be different. Because? Because I am. And what am I? I am from Córdoba,” says the singer. “Welcome to Córdoba City is my way of being at home, my musical home,” he points out before making clear one of the pillars of his artistic philosophy: “I want to show Córdoba to the world not on a whim but because I believe that it is needed The world needs more Córdoba.”
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