“Impulsive, chatty and amib”; With these words Clara Ballestero defines himself, as he explains, “because I learn after giving it to me against the wall, because I love to chat for hours and hours, and because my bonds are the most important thing I have.” The artist presented her new single, “Disappear”, which is now available on all digital platforms. It soon became a hit, as it reached hundreds of views on Youtube.
“Disappear, forget for a little bit who I play to be,” Clara longs in the lyrics to her new theme. According to this medium, it was one of the first songs he composed, at a time when the need to leave the ‘roles’ of the day to day and part of everything prevailed.” I composed it at a time when I was tired of the demands of the world and the obligations,” she recalls. The mix was in the hands of Matías Cella and was mastered by Eduardo Bergallo, while its producer David Bensimon was also in charge of the recording. The video was recorded on the terrace of his house, after meetings by Zoom involved, filming plans and filming days: “It was beautiful. We did it with friends, Manuel Pons recorded, Milagros Cassano made the art and Nicolas Benedetto was camera assistant and graffer. It’s beautiful to be able to create with friends so I’m very happy about the opportunity,” she confesses. It makes me very happy that the songs are moving after so much dedication time,” he confesses. The song is the successor to “Luna Llena”, on a path as a soloist that she undertook in 2018, although the music has been accompanying her for a long time.***She grew up in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. The music accompanied her since she was little by her family, as her grandfather was Oscar Anderle, a jazz singer, author of most of the hits performed by Roberto Sánchez, known by todxs as Sandro. “As a child I grew up watching Roberto sing, play piano and guitar; watching the recording studio at home, and hearing him tell stories and anecdotes about the tours and recitals they had with my grandfather,” she recalls. Then he follows: “I was always intrigued by his instruments and every time I walked into the studio I couldn’t believe it, he wouldn’t always leave me, but when I could it was like being in a sanctuary. Roberto was like a grandfather to me.” Among the main songs his grandfather wrote for Sandro are “Give Me Fire”, “Rosa Rosa”, “Tengo”, “A Girl and a Guitar”. In addition, he was also producer of several of the singer’s films.” The memories are pure anecdotes that the Gypsy told at the tabletops of lunches on Sundays, and also stories that my mom continues to tell me. They shared many years and important things together,” she continues.
Clara inherited all that musical treasure. When he condensed that feeling by writing his first song, he realized it was his thing: “I touched it for some people and there I felt I had to go that way. It was very magical to see that singing something I had done could thrill someone,” he confesses. Among her great references, she places Bebe and Marilina Bertoldi, although she confesses that for her her reference is the feminist movement itself, “the force of the whirlwind of union and revolution”: “I am very glad that things are changing and improving, in recent years you have noticed the presence of more women in festivals and stages, but at the same time I feel that there is a long way to go”, evaluates.” I consider myself a feminist and also the daughter of patriarchy, there are many things to keep learning and changing in the way I see the world. The movement gave me strength, knowledge and unity with all women. We were raised for competition, to meet expectations and to meet mandates that no longer go.” Confesses. The women’s movement, she explains, was reflected in her songs: “I feel feminism in accepting onesemen, in the desire beyond the imposed structures, also the strength and the struggle, which for me are the cutest of feminism”. Then he goes: “Going to march with the chicks is one of the things I miss most in this quarantine, and above all knowing how the situation of many women is in situations of violence and locked up knowing how difficult it is to be able to get out of that situation and without any organism to accompany them.”
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Through art Clara finds a way to “stay calm” during the days of isolation: “I guess after 5 months of isolation there is no concrete answer, there are days that are better than others. It’s a long process that still comes to pass.” The pandemic reportedly affected the projects it had planned for this year. Among them, it wasthe release of the album or the live performance. “Music and cultural is most affected by the pandemic and will sadly be like this for a long time,” he says. Like her, the entire music industry was hit by the crisis: “It’s a great challenge to battle this context and give it a twist. Streaming recitals are a small dose of music for each, a way to see the artist from another place, inside a studio, in another environment and has its interesting side. I personally do not finish closing and I suppose it must happen to everyone, because the magic of the living is not, the heat, the applause and the union with the audience is lacking,” he says.
“Music and cultural is most affected by the pandemic and will sadly be like this for a long time,” he says.
As a second grade teacher, he is also quite linked to the online world to be able to continue with the classes. He finds a relationship between the two worlds: “In both one is constantly learning, I think that strikes me a lot, knowing that there is no roof. The feeling you have left after playing a song, of fullness, euphoria and joy is also very similar to what happens to you when a child learns something,” she says. Meanwhile, he says that the lockdown found her “pretty thoughtful about everything that’s happening globally”: “I think with this pandemic we’re going to realize how what one does influences the other and all, the domino effect. We live in a very selfish and materialistic society, I hope that after this pandemic some things will change and we start to have a little more awareness and care”***”A lot, a lot of music”, Clara forwards for the future. With the preparations for her first album, which will be released in September this year, she is ready to face any pandemic with her art. I look forward to making another album and also of traveling playing this one,” he confesses, “It’s a cover letter for a path that I hope is just getting started.”
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Clara Ballestero
Disappear
