Soledad Pastorutti was the guest of a new edition of Caja Negra, the cycle of interviews conducted by Julio Leiva, where she spoke about her career, folklore and the new generations and more. History
“I think that when I started my career being very, very young, I was overwhelmed by the idea of appearing in all the newspapers and magazines of the headlines, of leaving a town of 7000 inhabitants to become a phenomenon (…) I wanted to make a normal life being the Sole. Until one day my old man said no, you can’t. He was always a very special guy,” she said. Until I was in my twenties I spent it spinning, turning, turning and turning. There was no time to eat or sleep – says ‘la Sole’ and continues – my mother listened to a lot of international music from the 80s, the 90s, she was a teacher of classical and folkloric dances, but she taught classes as a streching in the garage at home. So I grew up with that music. I gave recitals with the broomstick, I always had the need to express myself and one day I found my voice. I started singing, imitating Teresa Parodi, Horacio Guarany, the Charcha. All the acts of the school participated.” Then he continued: “I always wanted to please everyone. That’s something I’ve also learned over the years is impossible. Everything they have said about me, which was very strong for a 14, 15-year-old girl, helped me grow. Let’s say, that bad thing that at the time hurt me a lot, helped me to say well, I stay here with my people. The important thing is the people around me, to be okay with them. And part of what they’re saying is that it’s true. I’m going to commit to increase, to change what maybe it is, to look at myself from the outside.” Until a certain age one does not believe that everyone is good people and that all this is fine. I mean, I believe in this famous ideal world that Disney songs talk about and when you grow up you get hit, you discover what people are bad people, but maybe it’s not like you. You miss that your old men were your saviors, until one day you became big and you can no longer run into their arms to ask for advice, because I am big and I have to solve it,” he reflected. I studied political science because I was always, from a very young age, I was interested in what happens to society, but I never wanted to mix that with the artist. The other day, watching one of the interviews you did with C. Tangana, which I really liked, he talks at a time that he believes that the artist came here to leave something important in the world. And I don’t think so. I believe myself to be a person like any other, who chose art as a way to express myself and communicate with others,” he said. Women in folklore
“Although at that time there were very few women who had the possibility, I had the privilege of having a family where at no time, because of my condition as a woman, they told me you can not do this, you are to raise children. I think we lived in another context; in fact I remember many opportunities that talked about me like they didn’t know if I was a boy or a girl because I wore long hair,” he said. One of the most recognizable figures at the time was Axel Rose. He wore long hair and then he wore a headscarf and that was like a very popular cut in the 90s. So I had my hair, so well, because I had it that way and on top of that I dressed in a gaucho pump. I think I was the first of this litter, of this new wave of folk music,” she continued.
“I appeared in the 90s, a few years quite criticized. I’m not to blame. I was born in ’80. I think I was also a good character, I had a lot of closeness with many artists who thought even differently, in different forgiveness, as I am santafesina, the method is anything. Being confronted with Mercedes Sosa, who was like the person I was always compared to, a rather absurd comparison. But hey, look at the shortage of popular women within the gender that this happened,” she said. Then she recalled: “I was the first to record ‘Cantora’ and it was a gesture that I will thank all my life, because it cost me a lot of time to work. We spent hours and hours talking on the phone and he would tell me what he had done in the day and send me bouquets of flowers. She was very, very affectionate in recent times with me.” I feel that because of the years I’ve been in this, because of my status as a woman, because I chose the gender I chose, sometimes I think too much is expected of me. It’s not that I think about things that happen in the country as if I were an intellectual and I’m not,” she confessed. Folklore and new generations
“They say that folklore is always closely linked to a more traditional thing, even family. But what happened very crazy with me, a new audience began to come that was the teenager who he was beginning to break free with me, which he was beginning to find. And there I also discovered this freedom that today is already very latent among us,” he said. I see it, my daughters, my daughters don’t judge the same way I judged. That’s great. So people can dress the way they want, and I think it’s great. I appreciate this happening now and with Lali we love each other a lot. We are both two fighting mines. I know her. In other words, Lali’s first intervention on television was when I was the protagonist of Cris Morena’s tire. I’ve known her since she was ten years old. Then, for reasons of life, we only met at some point, but there was always a spectacular empathy,” he added. Present and future
“This pandemic I don’t know if it made me stop, but it made me do things differently,” he evaluates and adds: “I come from suffering some problems in my voice. I am constantly studying singing and. And lately, I don’t know, it costs me something that I used to do like drinking water. But hey, I’m working hard so that I get to sing many years well, without having to lower the tonality and doing it with freedom.” My job is my vice, but I like it. I like it a lot. I like wine. I mean, like, but I don’t know if it’s a vice. I suck, but not so much as to say it’s a vice. I like dancing. For example, I like fernet with coca. I think I’m a very good person to get out of the, she reveals.
What is the Black Box of your life?
“I’ve had a lot of circumstances, I could name you a lot of very heavy things, but I’m going to choose the birth of my daughters. They gave my work another meaning. I got on stage the first time after Antonia was born and I understood that what I was doing had much more value, because in addition to the liking and because I love being a little bit the person who entertains people, I realized that with that I was feeding my daughter.”
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