He was born with music in his veins. He is 41 years old, has been in the artistic world for 30 years and that is no exaggeration. “It’s really something genetic, I have it in my blood,” confesses Juan Carlos Vergara, the singer from Guayaquil who has been involved in art all his life. His mother, Angelina López, is a soprano and sings folk songs, and when she was pregnant with him, she recorded a national music album.

At the age of 10 he got the chance to participate in the First Biennale of Children’s Singers of the World made in Chile, thanks to being in the choir of the Antonio Neumane National Conservatory of Music for a year. Since then he no longer lives from and for music.

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At the age of 11, he started playing instruments such as guitar and bass. The latter would become his main tool to this day. At the age of 14 he composed his own songs, and at the age of 15 he created a college band called Thames, integrated by his brother Antonio; and his friends Danilo Rosero, Fabio Govea and Roy Maruri.

He has no professional music studies, all his knowledge is empirical and based on his intuition, but recently the School of Arts awarded him the title of Bachelor of Musical and Sound Arts due to his long artistic journey.

Last On Friday, September 1, he released the video clip that accompanies his new single It doesn’t penetrate this club, ‘party song’ of the music genre funk for which he collaborated with Mauricio Milano on percussion, and with the Argentinian Julián Semprini on drums. In terms of post-production, Nacho Molina did the mixing and mastering was handled by Daniel Ovie.

The music video was the idea of ​​director Alberto Pablo Rivera: “Because the song lends itself to any party and has a catchy rhythm, we decided to do it in a nightclub in Guayaquil. The concept is to show people how much fun they can have listening to it.tells a little story about a couple who find themselves in the same place and eventually reconcile,” says Vergara, adding that it would be ideal if the audience took ownership of the song.

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It doesn’t penetrate this club It appears from the second studio album he has prepared entitled Tongo, a word that, according to the artist, is usually applied to negative ‘questions’. “My idea is to transform this meaning and turn it into something positive,” he says.

Add that to this as well merged genres like stone and merengue, and who wanted to give the record a retro touch, Since it’s something that several current productions do, singers like Bad Bunny, Bruno Mars, and The Weeknd have certain arrangements with these kinds of sounds. All the themes he has prepared for Tongo They were shot in his Domo Producciones studio, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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About Boss

His artistic name came about fifteen years ago when he played in a show at Plaza Colon in Las Penas. “While I was singing, someone from the audience called out to me: ‘good boss’. That spontaneous cry reminded me of my great-uncle Alejandro, who was the first fire chief in Guayaquil at the Jefe Vergara barracks. When I launched my solo career, I chose the name ‘Boss’, partly because of a certain leadership that I have, which is something that characterizes me very much,” he explains.