FMK, figure of Argentine urban music and its referents: “I listen to salsa almost every day”

The opening after the peak of the pandemic last year, allowed the Argentine trapero FMK to score his first international collaboration. The musician has just released a remix of his success with Tiago PZK “Prender la Cámara” with the duo Mau and Ricky.From Buenos Aires, who is one of the references of the Argentine urban genre said that it was the Venezuelans who began to tell him how much they had liked the original version of the song and that was how they came up with the idea of recording a remix, which the four of them released together with a music video.” For me who broke it, I like the remix much more than the original, beyond the original being special for me and having its own thing, I feel that in the remix with Tiaguito we show new verses and it is much fresher. And also Mau and Ricki added their own thing, which is incredible, “said the musician. Born in Necochea, in the south of the province of Buenos Aires, Enzo Sauthier – fmk’s real name – says he started in music thanks to poetry, which he began writing when he was nine years old. Since then, he recalls, moved by his taste for stories and the musical references he knew thanks to his mother, he was approaching music.” A very big reference, which I still listen to today and marked me a lot, is Marc Anthony. I love his music, I listen to salsa almost every day,” he says. “After Il Divo, I listened a lot as a kid, the ballads, a pile of music that my old lady, Leo Mattioli, who is an artist from here, Chayanne, put on me,” he adds. Then came rap, freestyle and finally trap, a genre that these days is booming in Argentina with an endless number of emerging artists among which FMK has managed to position itself as one of the most popular, with more than 3.5 million monthly listeners on Spotify and more than 70 million views on YouTube. Before it was the Argentine rock that crossed the mountain range and today they are trap and reggaeton… Yes, I understand that there was a time when Argentine rock was all the rage worldwide and today the same thing is happening with trap, with reggaeton, with the urban genre, that again in Argentina it is happening that a genre is becoming highly recognized and the truth is that it is incredible. It is a process that has just begun, we are kids and we are just learning and many things are happening that sometimes surpass you, that great artists that one listened to since childhood, who formed you to be perhaps the artist you are today are looking at you, they are putting your eye … Here many young people today see music as an opportunity to get ahead and make a career, does the same thing happen there? Yes, luckily yes. Something similar happened to me, to my friends, that we were not a family with so many resources. I don’t know if I would have had the opportunity to come here to Buenos Aires or travel to another place to study the career I wanted because my family’s economy did not give for that. And I decided to leave school and dedicate myself 100% to music and luckily today I am living from that, but anything I think, beyond music, football, anything that someone wants and is convinced of that and put discipline has the opportunity to arrive. Obviously it is not for everyone, but there are times when luck and work are mixed and given to people. I haven’t really talked to any. I really like what Paloma Mami, Dref, AK4:20, Rich Boy do, I feel that there is a very great talent in Chile. As a kid I listened to a lot of Chilean rap, and nothing, we have not talked but it can arise from one day to the next. To continue composing, to continue making music, to be able to know countries. I want to know Chile, I have Chilean friends who tell me ‘you have to know egg’, and know several countries, travel to the places I can. And then the goal is to be happy, to be calm, that the family is well.

Original source in Spanish