Well it says that youth is carried in the soul. Or that age are only number more. This man is on his way to 89 years and does not stop reinventing himself. Every time he can write a new story within his own past. Pablo Villanueva is his real name, although for a whole town that enjoys his talent will always be ‘Melcochita‘, the comedian who makes laugh just listening to him or just looking at him. But he fights to be recognized as Sonero.
‘Melcochita’, do you return to music?
Twenty -three years ago I didn’t record and when I invited me for this project, I loved it.
I feel happy …
I must confess that I like singing more than comicity.
Oh really?
I would prefer to travel the world singing than to laugh.
This musical production is perfect …
I will do what nobody has done. I will introduce myself in twenty -one places throughout Colombia.
And between each song you will count jokes?
Next to nothing.
What topics will you interpret?
Ancient music by adding my sono.
For example?
‘Momposina’ of the Sonora Matancera and ‘Pa’ Bravo Yo ‘, among others.
And do you prepare what you are going to add from your ‘harvest’?
It emerges at the time. As I did with the York’s rocker group.
‘Melcochita’ confesses (Photo: Trome / Allangino Quintana)
How was that story?
He worked in a recording studio where all the greats of that time arrived and replaced the missing musician.
So…
That rock group called me and recorded twelve themes that emerged at that moment.
¿Improvisaste?
Like the jokes that I tell. Once one was suddenly left and it was.
Which?
Do you know why cats don’t go to a disco?
No…
By perreo (laughs).
I feel you full of vitality …
This September Eightinueve years and I feel good, lucid, with vitality.
Have you been Bohemian?
I drank a lot. We were going with Óscar Aviles to take in the middle of the bullring, in Acho.
In the sand itself?
We were friends with a banderillero who called ‘kerosene’ and loved to put the table and chairs in the middle. But one day we were no longer …
Because?
In full drunken he shouted: ‘I want to fight’ and he went to get a bull. We start full of fear.
‘Melcochita’: the ‘Cholo’ Sotil took barbarity
Another character with whom you got ‘your waters’?
The ‘Cholo’ Sotil. It was admirable. He took barbarity. I ended up garbage and he the next day played and put two goals. It was unique!
Another one that gave you their friendship?
Roberto Chale, who was taken until trust. We were going with a ladder to the Crillón hotel, where I was concentrated with the selection, and escaped through the window to go to Abancay Avenue.
Didn’t they recognize it?
Yes, but people wanted it and nobody said anything.
Are you black or Afro -descendant?
I am an acrylic man.
A good way to say the same with other words …
I do not say gay, for me they are people who have damaged the ‘Atlantic Ocean’.
Are you worrying what will say?
If so, I would not be with my wife.
Because you said so?
When we all started they assured that she was with me for my money and we will turn twenty years of marriage and we are happy.
I imagine that a while ago you use the ‘blue pill’ …
I apply spring injections.
What is that for?
So that the ‘boy’ jumps when the action time comes, ha ha.
What do you consume to leave men well?
My wife makes me ‘calderones’ fish head with enough garlic.
And do you follow the ‘delicious’?
Not every day, but once a week. And for that, the ‘boss’ must also work well.
‘Melcochita’ confesses (Photo: Trome / Allangino Quintana)
Are you afraid of dying?
No, because I still don’t get bored of living.
Do you believe in God?
And only in him, without intermediaries.
Two jokes on the subject …
In the middle of the last dinner, Jesus asks Judas: Do you love me? And he replies: ‘Lord, the gay is Juan’ (laughs).
Other…
A Pope commands to paint that last meeting of the Lord with his twelve disciples, but the artist gets drunk and paints anything. When he arrives with the painting, thirteen apostles had painted and his holiness claims: ‘Hey, one is left over’ …
What does the painter respond?
Do not worry, the one who sucks, eats and leaves.
Thank you, Don Pablo, and everything goes well …
To you and thanks for this opportunity.
The man who borders the ‘Base 9’ is happy to reunite with the sauce, the sono and the tomb. Bringing 12 songs to light with the name of ‘The Sonero arrived’ makes him explode with emotion. As Mother Teresa of Calcuta would say: “Peace begins with a smile.” And ‘Melcochita’ always has it drawn on the face.
