From very early, music was not only an accompaniment in the life of Rocío Soto, but the language with which the everyday was woven. “Music has always been the protagonistsince children my parents constantly sang us … I have grown watching guitars in the cornerswith music as a company for everything, for celebrations, family moments … in a very natural way, ”he recalls. There was no solemnity in that sound environment, but a constant and simple, almost domestic presence, which marked an internal rhythm since his childhood.
And yet, he never imagined that this discreet presence would end up guiding his professional path. Today, Rocío begins to make their way in the world of music from its own placereleased from the weight of the origins but with the indelible place of the lived. Despite being a reserved person, the echo of his last name preceded her through the streets of Seville, where it was inevitable that they relate her to her family. It was something far from there, on a trip to the north, where his voice found freedom.
when I saw that people felt what they sang, it was a sign
“It was after quarantine, I arrived four months in Italy and to make the Camino de Santiago,” he recalls. The savings had evaporated between trips and discoveries, and a friend lent him money to buy a guitar. With her under her arm, Galicia began to go “kicking beach barcasses,” as he says with a smile. “I released because At least they know you, you feel freer and less shame gives you”In every coastal corner, in each song shared without pretensions, he discovered something unexpected.
“There I realized that people responded and as soon as you see that someone is feeling what you are singing … for me it was a sign that I had to go forward with music.” That sincere emotion of the strangers showed that his voice did not need explanation or context. Only space. And without planning it, I was starting to find it.
The guitar has been a shield for my shyness
Rocío Soto speaks quickly, with the natural spark of who drags the southern rhythm and an unmistakable Sevillian accent. However, under that vivacity a reserved character is hidden. “I’m a shy person”, He acknowledges, and The guitar has been, since adolescence, its form of defense. “It accompanies me everywhere since the thirteen years I started to touch it, it has been a shield for shyness, I sang and protected me behind it.”
His presence was almost inseparable; Where I was going – a beach, a meeting between friends, any unexpected corner – she was going too. “I took it and encouraged any encounter or party. In the end you are creating memories Based on musicyou feel, you start to sing and people enjoy differently … people are approaching and It is a form of union”.
My mother sang us songs from El Rocío or songs like ´nana de Triana´
The memory of childhood leads to more intimate sounds: The songs that her mother sang for her and her brothers, between devotional and popular nannies between. ´nana de Triana ´, Rocío songs … melodies that mix in your memory with the image of the fieldhorses, dogs and that clean air that, even today, considers a shelter.
“For me it has been a way to save myself from all the chaos that is lived in the city, the countryside is a very healthy environment that I love,” he says. It was not a nostalgia without roots: Rocío formed as a veterinary assistant And he worked in a clinic with cats, dogs and later in a veterinarian of horses.
Until the pandemic stopped the activity dry and opened a door that had kept ajar for years but had never shared: sing. “I made versions and recorded me, as I was in my comfort zone at home, I started publishing them.” It was then that the networks began to return signals. “When they distrusted us, after Italy when returning to Seville, They started calling me to sing at events, weddings… thanks to the covers he had shared. ”
The first theme I recorded in studio was a version of a song by my father
Although the true transformation came when he decided to launch his first theme on digital platforms: a version of “Start to startr”, His father’s famous song. “I chose it because in addition to looking like a spectacular song, I was very consistent with the moment we were living after the pandemic. It was one of the themes that triumphed the most in networks when I uploaded them during confinement. For me it was very nice to record it in study and it was that topic the turning point”.
That gesture marked a resounding change. Shortly after launch, he received the call from Fallenthe management company with which it works today. “I went from singing for pleasure to undertake the project to professionalize it.”
I have always been very shame when sharing things of my life and my emotions
He writes frequently although he still does not convert those pages into his own melodies. “I am happy with the versions for now; I do not rule out to compose later. I have always been very modest when sharing things of my life and my emotions: to open yourself in a song you have to be very prepared, ”he confesses.
I really wanted to pay tribute to my father and this launch is
And precisely tomorrow he will launch a new musical project: he will publish a series of songs by his father dressed in his voice and sensitivity. “I wanted to make that tribute, respecting the usual rumba but with another voice and registration. It is a way of making music still alive, you never have to let it die”The parental legacy thus extends in a generational loop that she describes tenderly:“ Those who listened to my father were people from their generation whose parents put their songs in the car; Now those people are also parents and transmit music to their children. The fact of versioning them makes these new generations also feel the closest songs”.
Among the topics chosen for this tax are works by José Manuel Soto as ´tú will be my dawn ‘and ´ to forget a love’. Rocío takes them in their hands with the delicacy of who inherits a family treasure, to return them to the world with a renewed pulse, making sure that the flame – that who ignited so many memories – continues to illuminate those who come behind.
After the my brothers and I will get a song together
The creative drive does not only reside in Rocío within the family. His brothers, Marcos and Jaime, They form the duo My brother and meand now they share with her this professional journey. “They also compose as my father; After the fair we will take out a song that my brother Jaime has written that we sing the three, ”he announces, with the satisfaction of the one who sees a common work.
We sing as a family and we have also found one in the public
Getting on stage next to them – or to see their smiles between the public – has become an unexpected gift. “It is a very beautiful sensation to get on stage with them or see them among the public. Now that we are accompanying my father on the tour is being a very beautiful experience. In the world of music there is a lot of loneliness, but we sing with family and we have also found one also in the public,” he confesses, illuminated by fraternal complicity and the powerful magnet that involves sharing boards with his father. “We give support and he toobecause we are making ourselves more known, we are taking the rhythm and ease on a scenario … all that is difficult to teach, the experience gives it to you and we are taking it from your hand. ”
As for the musical, I have no great ambitions. I just want to enjoy the way and keep singing
In the middle of that concatenation of opportunities, Rocío remembers a phrase that his father always repeats: “From one thing another thing comes out.
Faithful to that philosophy, he continues to travel with his guitar, as he had as a child, although now settled in a new security and in a purpose without artifice: Live from music to continue singing. “I live music very in the present and very grateful to create and take out projects like tomorrow.” That is, for her, authentic success.
