Fernanda Castro makes her way as a performer and composer. She chose a path other than acting (Photo by Jaime Nogales / Medios y Media / Getty Images)
The Castro dynasty expands its talents with the new generation in different artistic areas. Sofía Castro is the representative best known for her foray into acting, but she is not the only one of hers. Fernanda Castro also wants to transcend, with the exception that her passion is in music.
Daughter of producer José Alberto Castro and actress Angélica Rivera, Fernanda seeks to follow a path parallel to that of her sister Sofía. She is not attracted to cameras and television forums. His taste and passion is in recording studios and stages with a microphone in the center.
Just released the album Better than ever, material with which she also shows that she not only wants to be a performer, since her professional purpose is integral to her career as a composer. “I really like composing and writing, I really like telling stories and I also guess finding my voice through writing,” commented in an interview with the program Today, from Telemundo.
Contrary to other singer-songwriters who opt for more empirical productions and works for their first albums, Fernanda Castro wanted to rely on her academic training at the University of Berklee College, in Boston, Massachusetts. Beyond the auditory and sound aspects of the composition, what he primarily polished in that institution was the writing.
That he pays attention to polishing song lyrics is not a detail that is overlooked due to the genre in which he wants to transcend, the romantic ballad with a nod to pop in Spanish. She is part of new young female exponents who raise their hands to preserve romanticism in national music, such as Ángela Aguilar and Lucero Mijares.
Focusing on the musical universe of what it means to sing about love and heartbreak immediately connects her with the profile of her cousin, Cristian Castro, a performer who, together with voices like those of Luis Miguel and Carlos Rivera, remains current to give continuity to a tradition that battles against other more popular genres today such as reggaeton and corridos tumbados.
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Knowing the importance of her cousin as a representative of Mexican romanticism, Fernanda contemplates doing a duet with him: “About two weeks ago we went to dinner and I told him (sing next to him). And he said to me, ‘Do you dare?’ I am nervous and he is going to have to prepare a lot and study and compose the songs he wants so that he likes it,” she confessed.
The plan includes composition. That will require a thorough analysis of your cousin, a singer who has found a special bond with lyrics of yesteryear to deposit feeling in his presentations. He did it with songs that José José immortalized, but he also showed off with Forbidden fruit, by La Sonora Santanera, a song that has earned the group 56 million views on YouTube.
“I promise everything, except give you the truth. And if you knew everything I have thought about you, waiting in the middle of my loneliness… And you wasting so many kisses, and I drowning in the feeling. We are the ones who threw their luck to the wind,” verses a verse of the song Aretheme composed by Fernanda Castro for the soap opera land of hopeproduced by his dad.
This step towards the main theme of a soap opera is not an issue that goes unnoticed either. In an interview with journalist Alberto Peláez, Producer Juan Osorio spoke about the relevance it has for the soap opera audience that their favorite melodrama has a song as its hallmark.
“Before, an entry was made with organic, instrumental music, and now viewers demand that they have lyrics. “All of this has evolved according to the demand and the competition that exists,” Osorio said.
In this way, Fernanda expands the spectrum of her target, which is why she not only addresses a niche of her generation but also a broader one that involves a sector that continues to consume soap operas and is over 40 years of age. In other words, an audience that is loyal to seeing and hearing stories of love and heartbreak.
Regarding the benefit that she may have for being the daughter of Angélica Rivera and carrying the paternal surname that is popularly linked to the figure of Verónica Castro, the singer-songwriter is clear in accepting that she likes her ancestry but that does not mean that it is simple: “There is a lot of inspiration, but it is difficult because of the shadow of being the son of, it is also very nice, I really like bringing it.”
Subject to what time dictates with the planning of a future collaboration with Cristian Castro, Fernanda is dedicated to promoting her album and making herself visible, this because she has been developing herself as a singer-songwriter for four years. One of her first materials was Ella, song and concept that she composed and produced in 2020 to join her voice with Bebe’s to join the collective female cry against femicides in Mexico.
“Today you are going to smile because your eyes are tired of crying. “Today you are going to be the woman you want to be,” they sang. Although it was a piece that went unnoticed by many people, it can be valued as documentary testimony of what Fernanda Castro wants to convey in her young career.
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