Nicolás Rocco has not sought a single way of reinventing himself, but many. He works as an actor, but also a musician, comedian and Property corridor.
This multifaceted national artist talked with Biobiochile and referred how this idea of doing so many different things was born, from comedy videos of “Tinder dating” to sing at cats, and much more.
Nico graduated in 2011 and began to make acting classes, had a role in Mega in the teleserie “If I were rich “However, he said that “I feel that many opportunities have not been given to me”.
It has its own theater company and television has been a bit reluctant. Despite that, on social networks he has achieved great notoriety with videos that have even become viral outside the country.
“It’s like one could say, ‘it’s what there is’, because I said, because I like the camera, I like to record, I like to do characters and act, obviously, I have my theater company (…) but I said, ‘Well, if in the background I do not give the opportunity on television or in cinema, I want to make social networks’that also has an audience that simply grabs the cell phone and sees videos that are viral, and I continue to act, continue making comedy in this case, to create characters, create stories, situations and there I feel like exercising the profession of the same and creative actor, of artist too, ”emphasized the multifaceted artist.
He acknowledges that he has been a bit frustrating, but he hopes that someone will watch one of his videos and take him to television again. If you acknowledge that there is a typecast on television, but it understands the same as this occurs in part because the teams were reduced after the pandemic and the channels got used to working that way.
Nicolás Rocco: from the “Tinder dates” to “Sing at Cats”
Some of Nico Rocco’s most striking comedy videos are those of “Tinder dates” and playing with cats.
In the case of appointments, we consult if this comes from any personal experience, to which he recognized that he does have the application, but that Use it to meet people, while sketch are simply invented.
“Yes, a couple of years ago I started making videos like Tinder appointments. I have the application fed up, but deep down many people have already told me in the application, ‘Hey, I have seen your social networks videos’,’ Hey, what fear, because what if you are recording me?, If you are going to occupy the experience with me, as to make a video,” he said, so that every time he happens, he must explain what he happens, They are characters that he creates and that exposes them through a Tinder appointment.
“People identify a lot, laugh a lot and say, ‘Ah, it happened to me, yes, I have known people like that’, and that is the same is funny, because that It happens a lot that people identify a bit with these characters “he emphasized.
But cat videos are also the most striking. Some have even gone viral out of the country.
“That arose in pandemia when videos of animals began to be viralizedI don’t know, animals howling, barking and musicians who made duos like playing music along with howls, with dog barking, things like that and playing music, ”Rocco began.
But he didn’t want to do just that, he wanted something else, so he thought “I will do as I do class and I will edit the videos of the point that it seems real this issue”.
First it began with songs that were popular, known, and then went on to use their own songs, of which 12 are already available on various platforms.
Even people have told him on the street “You are the one who makes cats class.” The second country where their videos have been seen most, is precisely in Argentina, from where they have written many times and have reacted to comedy shorts.
Your music
He currently has 12 songs on platforms such as YouTube or Spotify. It does not have a very defined style, so it calls it “Pop-piola”.
On the reception of the public, he points out that “the reception has been superbuena, and that people take a good impression of my music, both of the sound that is in Spotify, on YouTube, of the video clips and also of live music, how we sound and the band with which I am.”
“In social networks it is very difficult to promote or viralize something musical. So, people arrive in me many times for comedy videos and all that, and there I try to throw the promotion of what my music isthat it is more difficult for one to listen to it too, ”he acknowledged.
He is currently not working with labels, since he is focused on taking his show to various parts, however, he has surprises, for example, he is in conversations with Leo García, who was Gustavo Cerati’s guitarist.
And also, Property Corridor
To all of the above, it is a property corridor. Like the videos, it started in Pandemia. For 15 years that her mother has been a broker of properties, for what she taught him.
He has been in this for about six years, which allows him handle your times to make videos and your music.
In fact, social networks have been a point in favor in this matter, since “people who give confidence in some way, arrive, They pass me their propeity to lease it, people who trust me and say ‘Ah, are fed up followers, so it must be reliable’“.
On the other hand, some arrive due to property brokerage and then they find out that it makes videos for social networks, acts, sings and makes comedy.
He is currently preparing the launch of his new song, which will come to light on July 5 at the Ramblas Bar in Manuel Montt, Santiago. In addition to that, prepare the essay of a new play with his poetic company in Goya.
