Ashley Verdugo, a nascent artist who seeks to captivate with her musical proposal

Singer Ashley Verdugo is 14 years old. She is the daughter of an Ecuadorian father and a Colombian mother. She was born in the United States and in that country she lived until she was 9 years old and then came to live in Cuenca, the city where she works in her musical career.

Chaos is his musical proposal in English. “The song itself is about loving someone so much and this person leaves your life or unfortunately passes away, and having to suffer with these consequences and this pain, but at the end of it all come out much stronger,” he explains.

On the concept of the video, he says that it exposes an euphoric image and that it has a sense not only of sadness. On YouTube the video clip has more than 133,000 views. “It is a gigantic number and I cannot only imagine that so many people have listened to my song, it is incredible for me that, to have not only a memory …”, he affirms.

Of course, as a teenager her age she also shares time with her music-related studies, mainly singing and playing instruments like the ukulele. “At home I practice as much as I can, either on the ukulele, on my guitar …”, says Verdugo, who is in the ninth year of basic education.

“I have to balance both singing and school activities, sometimes it’s stressful because I can’t go out with my friends …”, adds the singer who has Billie Eilish and Lana del Rey as references.

Working on songs in pop ballads is her goal, in addition to writing songs in Spanish and being a global artist. “I always spend time writing music, it is something that I have never stopped doing and hopefully very soon I can produce one of my songs, but in the meantime I am going to start recording. covers“He says.

To compose his songs he says that he is based on movies or books that he has read. “A movie expresses a relationship … I am trying not to write so much about love because I have not experimented with it, so it may be what I am feeling in the moment. If I’m feeling happy, I write something happy (…), everything varies with my emotions, ”he says.

She is aware that the music market in Ecuador is somewhat complex, but advises those who are on the same path of growth as her not to give up. “I know that there are many who do not have the support of their family in the aspect that they want to be singers …”, he points out.

“My experience in this world, everything is very new for me, I have not done any of this, I am learning along the way,” he adds. (E)