Argentinian songwriter-guitarist-singer Sofia Viola's songs of love, protest, everyday life, and life in the city are rooted in tangos, waltzes, cumbias, huaynos, boleros and much more. Join the artist for a special songwriting workshop on inspiring your creative efforts and developing your own sound from a combination of stylistic infuences and life in general. Bio: Sofia Viola was born in Lanœs, south of the province of Buenos Aires.ÊDaughter of a renowned trumpeter (Pollo Viola) and a dancer, she lived her childhood in a musical house of Remedios de Escalada and grew up with her brothers Le—n (pianist and lyric singer in Italy) and V’ctor (railway electrician, metalhead and Racing fan)...
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Argentinian songwriter-guitarist-singer Sofia Viola's songs of love, protest, everyday life, and life in the city are rooted in tangos, waltzes, cumbias, huaynos, boleros and much more. Join the artist for a special songwriting workshop on inspiring your creative efforts and developing your own sound from a combination of stylistic infuences and life in general. Bio: Sofia Viola was born in Lanœs, south of the province of Buenos Aires.ÊDaughter of a renowned trumpeter (Pollo Viola) and a dancer, she lived her childhood in a musical house of Remedios de Escalada and grew up with her brothers Le—n (pianist and lyric singer in Italy) and V’ctor (railway electrician, metalhead and Racing fan). At the age of 11, Sofi experienced acting in a program called "Medios locos" led by Adolfo Castello, Gillespi and Mex Urtizberea playing the supposed daughter of Per—n.ÊThe program ended but that was the push to study theater.ÊHe studied singing and began to get into the world of tango.ÊViola, without even being 30 years old, toured through Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Spain, Germany, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay and Mexico, always accompanied by her guitar and her little ronroco. The daughter of Pollo Viola traveled alone through Bolivia and Peru, where she accumulated more experiences and songs.ÊHe also participated in bands like the Mahatma Dandys, but his first solo album wasÊ"Parmi"Êand was recorded in San Marcos Sierras (C—rdoba) with solar panel energy from La Casa Ecologica by JosŽ Luis D'Amato, who was the executing partner.ÊThe batteries were obtained outdoors.ÊAll the songs were composed, sung and played by Sof’a Viola, between 2005 and 2008. There is tango, bolero, rumba, pop, rock and it is summarized as the crudest and rebellious moment of this Buenos Aires artist. In 2011 he releasedÊ"Munanakunanchej on the Kurmi Way"Ê("We have to love ourselves on the rainbow road"), produced by Horacio Barros.ÊThen cameÊ"Jubilee",Êhis third plaque, which came to light in 2013 after an arduous process of selection and compositional development.ÊIt was produced by Ezequiel Borra.ÊIn 2017 came the EPÊ"A mi, no"Êwith arrangements by Pablo Sensottera and a trio of guitars with Juan Pablo Lazo, AndrŽs Amado and Sensottera himself.ÊThe general producer of these three songs was Ezequiel Borra.ÊThe material was recorded in Estudio El Bulo by Nacho de la Riega and mastered by renowned engineer AndrŽs Mayo. Five years after the release of "Jubilee" came, through Los A–os Luz Discos,Ê"The footprint in the cement",Êproduced again by Ezequiel Borra and also with Mayo in the master of these 11 unpublished songs, including one reversion of "Platonic love", one of his first compositions.ÊIt is the first record where the contribution of his Ajbo Combo was recorded, the band that also accompanies it, formed by Nicol‡s Echeverr’a, Juan Emilio Telechea, Leonardo Zumbo, Pollo Viola and Borra himself.
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