With artistic DNA in his veins, Ángela Torres knew from a very young age that the spotlight was her thing. After trying his luck in “Ugly Duckling” y “Conconditioned”, two fictions that positioned her as a young talent on television, continued to navigate art from acting until, of course, Music began to occupy more time in his life.
The excuse of the talk with The Urban Planet It is the premiere of the Uruguayan film “Temas Props”by Guillermo Rocamora, in which he shares scenes with his current partner, the actor and musician Franco Rizzaro, but the dialogue goes to other places where open your heart and reveal issues that you face every day.
–You are full of music and now you are launching this proposal in which acting and music come together. Would you like to see more of these types of projects start to emerge, as also happened with “Días de gallos”?
–I feel that throughout my life I always had the opportunity to mix my two passions in musical comedies or in some other project that also had music, like “Esperanza mia” o “Simona.” Luckily I was always able to get my desire to sing and if not, I asked for it; in “Only you”, with Adrián Suar, I remember that he was like: “Can I sing in this scene?” and He improvised and ended up making me sing.
I always looked for them and well, obviously This project particularly attracted me because of that.because my character had to sing a lot, in addition to the fact that it is a special project, with a lot of heart, in the script there is a lot of the life of Guille, who is the director.
Also The experience of going to Uruguay to work was nice., he had never done it, and there was a lot of time to dedicate to the scenes, to work on each character, Guille knew very well what he wanted and knew how to ask for it. And she saw that Uruguayans are calm, she really felt that difference a lot.
–Was it difficult for you to adapt?
–No, when I enter a chill place under a thousand changes at once, it happens to me that sometimes I get tired of speeding so much here in the city and I am very grateful for the spaces that are a little calmer because I am already there to accelerate.
We made this movie two years ago, in fact I recorded “More respect that I am your mother” and I went to film this movie as soon as I finished, they are processes that are closed a long time later and now that we are closing this I feel it a bit like the end of a more acting stage in my life. and also as the birth of something that is very important to me today, which is direct my desire towards a single passion: music. This movie is special in every way.
–Surely your legacy had to do with both things, with music and acting, but when did you know that music suited you more?
–I think that life was put together very unconsciously and magically and I am grateful for it because it really was a flash; I started and the projects began to appear and I began to put them together. I also put a lot of work and a lot of time into it., I remember times when I worked a lot and I wonder how I did it, when I was 16 I had “Peter Pan”, “Anne Frank”, “Dancing”, I recorded a strip… all in the same year! Today she couldn’t cope, not even in a world, I don’t know how I did.
I think this is my life, it is indisputable, it has saved me and it is what gives me the most meaning: be a human being, sing and act. Acting will continue to be a passion for me, but a while ago it happened to me that I was recording and I said: “I’m getting bored.” I began to see those tricks that I criticized from others, like: “I have to wait three hours, what a shame.” And when I saw myself not wanting to do that, I said: “Hey, stop, I’ve done this all my life because I enjoyed it, because I have the enormous privilege of being able to do something that I love and if I’m not loving it, maybe it’s time for a distance.”
–And you weren’t scared?
–It scares me, it scares me a lot, obviously, but hey, you have to get out of comfortable places. Because I always knew what I wanted, when I was little, six, seven years old, I would lock myself in my room to sing and dance in front of the mirror all afternoon.
And doing therapy, which the truth was a big part of getting to know myself, I said: “Hey, maybe we need to head a little further there for a while” and that’s what I’m doing. Making music means discovering yourself a lot, knowing yourself a lot, because they are your words, it is your project, it is trusting a lot, learning to trust yourself, pushing yourself, because you have to believe in that place that you want to start so that others believe it too. So we are in that process that is also very personal, That’s why you had to really put a lot of energy into it.
WITH OWN VOICE
–What did you sing in front of the mirror, do you remember?
-Yes of all: Fabiana Cantilo a lot, I always loved Fabiana, I asked my mom to go see her. We went and I remember one time my mom took me to greet her, and for me she was crazy, she was God. I listened to a lot of Raffaella Carrà, Amanda Miguel, I liked Argentine women’s classics.
–Those torn, crying songs.
-If not because. It was funny because I was seven years old and I liked to sing very passionate things. And then, well, more things like “High School Musical”, “Hanna Montana”, “Almost Angels” and all that more adolescent stuff, obviously, I also went through it, and Babasónico, Babasónico I loved it.
–What was it like to find your voice, your sound?
–A very personal and intense process. I started releasing music four years ago and I feel like I’m recognizing myself in that. And it’s also really difficult because one is in constant transformation all the timeIt is difficult to always define yourself in a place or in a way, to pigeonhole something, music also changes with you; The music I made four years ago may not be the music that challenges me today, but what I discovered is that I don’t have to pigeonhole myself into any genre.because I am realizing over time that I really, genuinely, like to sing many things, I enjoy the genres and in the studio I feel like I’m good at writing for various genres.. I recently released a bachata and I enjoyed it and I love it, I love singing it and I never imagined myself singing a bachata, and I listen to it and it sounds like me.
–I mean, now you don’t marry any of the genders.
–No, today I am discovering myself in each one and I realize that my personality is a little like that: a romantic bachata and a nasty reggaeton too. I am both, then I am allowing myself to explore without putting up walls that don’t let me grow.
–You just mentioned therapy. You saw that these days there is a lot of talk about mental health, you started out very young in a maelstrom that for some people may be complicated, what was your experience like?
–At the time it was great for me, I think it did me good and saved me, I had a very bad situation at home and acting, music and my work saved me a little and made me be half at Disney without having to review the things that were hurting me at that moment.
Obviously, there came a time when I had to open the drawers and say: “We have to get the shit out of here, we have to work on it.” That must have been two years ago, when I did therapy for the first time, and It changed my life, literally.. Just like that, now I think about how I spent so much time alone, without talking things over with someone who could give me professional advice.
It also happened to me at one point that my friends talked about my personality in everyday conversations and I said: “Am I like that?”, until one day I said: “I don’t really know who I am, I’m not very clear about my personality”, and It is key to know yourself to be able to work on the bad things, to be able to improve, for a million things. And well, I started therapy and it was a before and after for me.
Photos: kindness Paula Aisenberg
2023-10-28 12:26:02
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