Nicho Hinojosa’s last concert in Ecuador is this Friday, July 7, together with Los Prisioneros

At 54, the singer Nicho Hinojosa has decided that his musical base will be located in Mexico and that his last presentations outside his country are for only saying goodbye to the audience that has followed his music and supported him throughout his years of journey.

His farewell to Guayaquil comes tomorrow when he performs at Arena Park in Samborondón, in the same show by Claudio Narea, from Los Prisioneros. “I have very good memories of Ecuador, so I say goodbye to the country, but not to the music, because that’s not possible, I just keep working in Mexico”, said the artist in a conversation via Zoom with this newspaper.

Why did you agree to come to Ecuador for the last time?

I wanted to say goodbye and see my Ecuadorian friends again, because I’ve made many in the 17 years I’ve visited that country. I want to see the group of friends who hired me for my shows, although I generally haven’t made presentations that big, only 300 or 400 people. My concerts are like this, smaller, more intimate, I step off the stage and share with everyone who is there. So seeing them again, hearing their jokes, their way of speaking, their singing when they sing with me, all of that led me to accept that I was back. We also wanted to do it in Cuenca, but the schedule was already very tight.

How did you design this last presentation in Ecuador?

It’s very different from anything I’ve presented there, because now I’m going with piano and cajon. So of course I’m going to present the songs that are known, that’s where people go show mine, although of course I will continue to release songs here. It’s an audience that I haven’t seen in seven years and I can’t impose new songs or that I just recorded because they don’t know them and the audience wants to have fun. The idea at an event like this is always to sing the songs everyone knows and they know in Ecuador In size 1, 2 and 3 by Nicho Hinojosa, from 2000, 2001 and 2003. But you can also expect songs that you may not have heard in my voice, but they are known and we can continue this party there.

What projects are you working on in Mexico?

I have a project called La Bohemia Descarada where we release an album every month and a half or every two months..

At a time when the lyrics of the songs have left romance aside and made way for sex and fun, how do you defend your compositions from your experience?

Today we are more immersed in the visual wave, thanks to the internet, which I think was used in the wrong way and surpassed us (…) and there are many things that make people lazy, they lose interest by thought, because things now come to you easier and faster. And those kind of lyrics you mention are also very easy to do and the rhythm doesn’t change. You put what you want in the lyrics, “you and me,” “we locked ourselves up.” And that wave can amuse me, but we should think it’s just for that, but now it turns out those songs are the basis for social networks and their content.

And for those who think it’s an age issue?

I have a lot of young people at my concert who come up to me and tell me not to stop doing the songs I do or play because we are fewer and fewer. Music is part of your life because you also remember it from day to day through the music you listen to and your life goes through those melodies. And the idea is that we also have fun with these songs in the shows.