“It’s an album made for that night”

At the end of last year, Juan Ingaramo released his most recent album, Welcome to Córdoba City. Now, the appointment between the man from Córdoba and his audience finally takes place in what promises to be a night not to be missed.

Welcome to Córdoba City It is produced by Nico Cotton and has collaborations with figures such as Jean Carlos.

He navigates between pop, ballads and quartets, an “Ingaramesque” sound, one could say, full of his charisma. As the journalist Juan Manuel Pairone said in a comment on the album published last December in this same medium, Welcome to Córdoba City “It seems to be the arrival point of a personal and artistic search of many years, and here it seems to have arrived at a place where no one else has been before.”

The interview with Ingaramo begins by reading him the previous quote and, hand in hand, the question of whether he can summarize how the album that he is now presenting in Córdoba, at the Quality, was created.

“I think the songs have a kind of life of their own, they are like living beings and they look for a way out. They begin to appear and once they begin to appear and one begins to identify a certain artistic need or desire to say something, it begins to be put together as a concept, right? Based on what you read to me, I feel that being in a place where no one has been before has always been like one of my objectives, my goals, conscious or unconscious, of searching for my own sound, mine, that beyond Whether it’s good or bad or whatever, it’s mine,” he says first.

And he completes: “I believe that identity in art is fundamental, and in that search for identity I arrived at this port, Cordoba City. Once I understood that the concept was that, the rest came a little easier.”

Cordova by Ingaramo, Ingaramo by Cordova

Ingaramo expresses that this work is, at the same time, “a kind of soundtrack of my life and a kind of journey through a real and at the same time fictional Córdoba, a fantasy.”

In addition to Jean Carlos, Welcome to Córdoba City It also has collaborations with “la Pepa” Brizuela, Ulises Bueno and Zoe Gotusso.

–As in therapy, did unexpected emotions or memories arise when putting together this “soundtrack” of your life, when taking this “tour” through Córdoba?

–With the collaborations there were revelations, there were also very profound journeys. For example, when I heard “la Pepa” sing, or with Jean Carlos, I think that with them I touched very deep fibers of my history in Córdoba. But they really emerged in the whole process, it was getting deeply into my story… you dive looking for stimuli and that later begins to translate only into the sound of the album. And where these emotions crystallize the most is in the collaboration with these idols.

–Speaking of them, can you confirm who will be with you on stage?

–No (laughs)… but I can tell you that it is an album made for that night, it is made for May 25, to be presented at Cordoba Cityso it’s definitely going to be a special night.

Ingaramo’s career

At a steady pace, the musician has made a name for himself at the national and Latin American level. He does not stop experimenting even with other branches of art, such as acting.

–Do you feel that you have paved the way for figures like, for example, Luck Ra?

–No, not really, luckily I don’t bear that cross. Each one writes their own story, that’s what I like about having been able to make music, writing my own story, and that’s how it should be. Each one builds their own map, I put it together with what I was experiencing and with different references from different genres.

–You were in “El Reino 2”, do you plan to continue acting? Did you seek advice, along that path, from Violeta Urtizberea (her partner)?

–There are always proposals and also my desire to continue doing it, because the truth is that I enjoy it a lot. But well, since I also have my musical history and this is my priority, I am in no rush to act, I wait for the project to arrive just right and in ideal conditions. Surely there will be more.

Violeta has helped me a lot, and it is also a world that is very close to me, so in some ways it is a little easier for me, I have the possibility of having many actor friends. They and my partner give me certain tools, but what I also like about acting is that it is a totally new world for me, and that is always nice, being able to discover the unknown.