La Toquilla, Ecuadorian singer, presents her song ‘Ingratitud’, which fuses cumbia with Creole: “This song is worth it”

The manabita Alejandra García, known by her stage name La Toquilla presented his song titled on July 26 Ingratitude, melody originally by the Ambateño composer Fausto Galarza.

This song is a Creole waltz, but the singer represents it as cumbia, giving it modern touches and touches of musical youth to grab younger people’s attention. “The idea is to be able to give rhythm to traditional Ecuadorian music like we’ve done, cumbia is timeless, it’s Latin American and we can reach more boundaries with this song.”

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La Toquilla was born out of a desire to make known something so representative of Ecuador and Manabí, such as the toquilla straw hat, “this was declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, that is why it is so important to all of us, I felt toquilla from the beginning”.

Despite being from Manabita, she proudly confirms that Quito has opened its doors to her, the place where she has lived for more than 20 years and where she built her musical career. “I went to Quito because it always caught my eye, the people of Manabita went more to Guayaquil because of its proximity, but I liked the artistic look the capital offered, so I went, it attracted me and I stayed. I studied at the university there, got married, had my son, got divorced. All my life I have done it in Quito”.

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She confesses that she was a young mother at the age of 21 and was dedicated to him, but the fact that he came from a family of singers meant that music was always in his veins. His debut in the artistic world was in 2013 with the theme The Horn, and it hasn’t stopped since then. “It was impossible to refuse it, I chose traditional Ecuadorian music and tried to give it a color so that young people can pass it on from generation to generation.”

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The 41-year-old composer embarked on a media tour of the country on Wednesday 26 July. “I haven’t been to Guayaquil for a while, this song is really worth it, for example, they love it very much in Colombia. In all the places we’ve been and sung, it’s been a success.” He says that the idea for this single originated in Los Angeles and that it was produced by Agni Durden, along with Juan Carlos Zavala, one of the producers of Mexican singer Peso Pluma. The music video was shot in Quito, in La Terraza Cumbayá. Alejandra wanted to tell an everyday and close story.

The singer embarked on a summer tour of the United States on August 5 when she performed in Miami at the sixth edition of the Expoferia Ecuador Internacional. “This time we are also in New York, New Jersey, Atlanta, for example, where we visit all Ecuadorian communities and bring our music. They are always eager to revive and feel”. The staging keeps getting better and he notes that he always hopes that the audience will enjoy national music, “when we go out we become ambassadors for the whole country”.

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Ingratitude It is available on the music platform of stream Spotify since last August 2.