The sibling duo, who have stayed current with recent hits like ‘2020, the year time stood still’ and ‘Betrayal’.
Four decades have passed since Joaquín and Lucía Galán they created Forget me and turn around and they launched into the world like Burnet, causing a stir that just two years later led them from the living room of their home in Buenos Aires to Radio City Music Hall in New York.
The brother duo, which has remained in force with such recent successes as the pandemic 2020, the year that time stood still and Treason, an issue in favor of equality marriage whose video has more than 33 million views in YouTube, will celebrate this milestone in style with an American tour that started on october 14 en Phoenix, Arizona.
Just this month Pimpinela: 40th Anniversary Tour will make nine stops, including Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, San Antonio and Houston, with more dates planned for 2022 in cities including New York and Miami.
“It is going to be a very emotional because imagine, it is 40 years and we have grown up with all the people who are going to see us, from All ages”Said Joaquín Galán in a recent interview. “There will be many songs that we are going to do in medleys to be able to put more songs … What we hope is that there will be a lot of emotion ”.
The history de los Galán goes back to his childhood as part of “a very musical family“In which her Asturian father sang and played the bagpipes and” everyone sang wonderfully well, “Lucia recalled. But the one responsible for their dedication to music together was their mother.
“We also we sang as boys and mom all she did was insist that we do what we did at home professionally. So Burnet arose from that musical family bonding, and of that insistence on the part of mother ”, he said. “It started as a game where the family had a lot to do with it, and luckily it continued like that, it continued with that feeling of permanent support and enthusiasm from everyone.”
Lucia was about 20 years old and Joaquín 26 when they recorded Forget me and turn around. Since then, they have released pop ballads like Things of love, How do i tell him, For that man and To that and received more than 90 gold, platinum and diamond records for its high sales, in addition to awards that include the Latin Grammy for Musical Excellence from the Latin Recording Academy in 2019.
During the interview, they both reflected on their trajectory, the advantages and difficulties of maintaining a professional relationship being brothers (many initially thought they were husband and wife), how the song that launched them to stardom was born and where they hope to see themselves in the next few years.
What do you feel when you look back and see that 40 years have passed?
Lucía: What I feel is like the feeling that we had started yesterday … A very deep gratitude, because I think that beyond our work and our dedication or whatever, there was a response from the people on the other side of all these 40 years, which is what allows us to continue being and to continue touring.
Joaquín: Yes, for better or for worse we do not take time with conscience much, we are one of those people who sometimes think that everything is eternal, or I at least. I am so focused on the next project, whatever it may be, especially when it is already armed, that it makes you not think about the passing of the years.
Has the fact of being siblings made your work relationship easier or more difficult?
Lucía: It was more advantageous to be siblings, because the sibling relationship was more important than the professional one, and the ups and downs or the discussions or the critical moments that we might have had we could go around. We have even gotten to do therapy with a professional society therapist, because of course, you have to accept the differences, you have to work on them, you have to respect what the other thinks and try not to mix that trusting relationship of siblings.
Joaquín: I think it helped and that if we weren’t brothers we might not be working together, because there wouldn’t have been a reason. The theme of being brothers and raising ourselves in the same way, with the same origin, and next to such a musical family, that line of working Spanish immigrants who know what sacrifice and a vocation for music are, family unity. , all these are things that, as a therapist says, we have had with soup, we have suckled as children, and that all has given us a great union and has also made us very creative.
How do you remember that first success?
Joaquín: I had been singing with a musical group for 10 years, a group from my school; We were all children of the Beatles generation and I wanted to succeed with that group. I did not have in mind to sing with my sister, who wanted to be an actress. The one who was a visionary there was Mom, and I said to her: “Mom, if there is a song that we compose that amuses us, we will listen to you … As long as you don’t insist any more.” One day I composed Forget me and turn around and Lucia came from school and began to dramatize her. I said, “You say ‘who is it?’ And I’m going to say ‘it’s me’, ‘what are you looking for?’ ”We started singing and he began to make the faces that he did in his improvisation exercises in theater classes and it began to seem very funny to us. And there, like a game, we began to shape it and after two years we were at Radio City. It was a very magical thing because there were no social networks, you had to go country by country, but Forget me and turn around it was like an explosion, it was like wildfire and it was the starting point of the (Pimpinela) style.
As well as Forget and turn around went around the world at the time, recently they became a trend again with Treason. How does a duo or group manage to stay current for so long, through so many changes in society, popular tastes and the music industry?
Joaquín: We never wanted to be a fad, we always unconsciously project, I suppose, without realizing it, a race not of 100 meters but of distance. So we were always making a path parallel to fashions. When we started in Argentina, what was popular was Cuban trova, Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés, national rock, imagine, nothing to do with all that, but Pimpinela was the artist in the 80s who sold the most records in Argentina. And so the race continued of course … the concept of what you say is beautiful, because after 40 years one normally repeats his repertoire or makes variations, but that unpublished songs appear and have a current message like Treason, is rare. They are those things that come out because we were always connected with the present, with reality.
Where do you see yourself in the next 10 years?
Lucía: We continue to see each other on stage, we continue to see each other on television, there are projects to make a biopic (biographical tape) of our life, there are a lot of projects and plans still in the future, so see you in Pimpinela.
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