Five voices with an instrumental and casual musical repertoire that has toured the stages all over the world. This Saturday they host the Awards Gala and on Sunday they present their show ’25 a cappella Contigo ‘
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Clown, humor, theater, beat box and. above all, vocal music are the main ingredients of the show that the company Vowel B It has been offering for 27 years, in which they have toured stages all over the world.
This weekend they return Rojas Theaterfirst on the occasion of the XXX Awards Gala which will be held this Saturday and, subsequently, on Sunday 2 October, with his show ’25 a cappella Contigo ‘of which the pandemic has not allowed them to turn enough.
“It is paradigmatic that a company of our nature, of our style and discipline, not so commercial, is maintained for so many years with professional stability and absolute dedication”, he transfers to this medium Augusto Gonzalezone of the five components of the vowel B.
Together with Alberto Marco, Fermín Polo, Carlos Marco and Juan Luis García, he launched this particular company more than a quarter of a century ago, which “was born out of a love of music”. They took courses in musical direction and vocal interpretation and had the “concern of forming something a little more transversal and less dogmatic, or perhaps more unanimouscompared to what they usually did.
A “carefree spirit”
“We wanted to play classic songs from the 60s to the 80s but only ‘a cappella’. We started arranging the songs, we did a performance and it seemed to work. Colleagues loved it and asked us when we had created one. spectacle of the kind “, González enthusiastically recalls, underlining”the jokes and the carefree spirit“of his first creations,” the seal that marked the beginning of the group “.
Under that premise, that of humor and ‘a cappella’ music, “everything has been progress”. All of them continued to specialize, study and learn “from the best sources in every discipline”. “We weren’t actors or specialists in disciplines like beat box, but we already are“, Underlines Augusto, who underlines that he has turned to professionals from other fields such as clowning or vocal percussion who“ have contributed a lot to their repertoire ”.
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vocal versatility
Throughout its history, B Vocal has incorporated lighting, choreography or “more powerful sound every time” into its shows. “We went definitively professionalize the entire project“, adds Augusto González, proud of the recognition received during their career, being” a bit of a point of reference in the world of ‘a cappella’ music “.
The musical variety that the five are able to reproduce with their voices is increasingly “more versatile”. “Each of us has a color but in recent years we have broadened our spectrum at an individual and group level to be ductile and flexible in all circumstances. The pitch of everyone’s voices is clear to us, when we compose a score we know who will do the things, but it is not unique or rigid “, he explains about the way of composing.
This versatility is precisely one of the attractions of B Vocal, which led them to act “in the most unexpected places, however special and particular they are. “” From a completely exclusive club in Tokyo Tower to a theater on Broadway. We performed before the emeritus and current kings, and we are the Spanish group that has performed the most in China in recent years “, underlines the musician.
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Success in Asia and upcoming projects
In this sense, about the success they have achieved in the Asian continent, González recalls that an international festival in which they participated in Thai (Austria) has opened the doors of countries such as China, Taiwan, South Korea or Japan. “The winners were invited to a festival in Taipei and we went there the following year … It was impressive. It attracts attention, it is a product that they like, in a musical and scenic sense”, he points out about the tour. international company, which has also received several awards and recognitions in the United States.
With an agenda full of performances for the rest of the year, including one in the European Parliament, B Vocal is immersed in other projects such as a documentary for his 25 years or the presentation of a new function which will be previewed in Zaragoza, the hometown of four of the five members. In 2023 they also hope to be able to return to Asia and will return to tour all over Spain with other educational projects.
But the most immediate thing is this stop in Toledo, where he believes that the audience who will attend his performance “will have hallucinations”. “It is not just seeing a concert, it is living a different experience on an artistic level. This is how the audience transmits it to us after each show, “remarks González, who stresses that he” loves “and is” seduced “by the Toledo theater.” I’m sure people leave with joy and a big smile “.
