English

JM Torillo(Guitar), S Romero (Guitar-vocals).

Born as a duo by the beginning 2009 we devoted ourselves to the compilation and performance of several rhythms from Latin American folk as well as to the task of putting music to the work of several Latin American poets. While we were working on this we could distinguish the different processes of evolution of the new popular Latin American folk. We stopped and paid special attention to ours, to the Argentinian folk song. A new project was then born, we called it Gente Necesaria* in which we perform the acclaimed work of Armando Tejada Gomez and Hamlet Lima Quintana- founders of the new Argentinian popular folk and of their direct antecedents: Manuel J Castilla, Jaime Dávalos and Gustavo Cuchi Leguizamón. This repertoire includes several pieces of music we composed for the work of the afore mentioned poets whose poetical rhetoric continues to be of significance-- even when half a century has gone by. Notwithstanding, the work of these poets is so vast that the repertoire we have selected is continually subject to improvement, modification and development.

*(Literally: Necessary People- making allusion to the celebrated poem of Hamlet Lima Quintana)

Career

Sergio Romero

Born in La Plata, BA, in 1963. Being a self-taught musician he formed part of several groups (Vocal group Vos, América; Orsai- music from Río de la Plata, etc.) from 1984 to 1999. In 1998 he is awarded 1^st and 2^nd position in the musical contest of new unpublished songs- organized by the BYM record label. In 1999 he starts his solo career. In 2002 he releases his first album as singer and composer “El Alma de la Canción”* accompanied by guitarists Pablo Mini, Mariano Lucesoli and Matías Martín Hargo; with the participation of Hugo Figueras, Mercedes Palomar and Verónica Fantini in the strings.

In 2005 he records his second album “Savia”** in which he again presents songs of his own as well as a new musical composition for the poem “Gente Necesaria” by Hamlet Lima Quintana. This work has the participation of Pepe Angelillo, Diego Rodríguez; Luis Bravo; Horacio Gramajo; Viviana García and Eduardo Pérez Lindo. All of them acknowledged musicians from La Plata, BA.

Apart from composing his own work Romero has also put music to poems of acclaimed and distinguished Latin American writers such as Joaquín Gutiérrez and Jorge Debravo (Costa Rica), Augusto Blanca and Roberto Fernandez Retamar (Cuba). Also, to poems by Jorge Boccanera, Hamlet Lima Quintana and Juan Gelman (Argentina). Sergio has been invited as support musician to recitals of Juan Carlos Baglietto; Augusto Blanca, Teresa Parodi and Chango Spasiuk, among others.

*(Literally: Song’s soul) **(Literally: Sap-like that from trees)

Juan Manuel Torillo

Born in La Plata, BA, in 1978; this young guitarist starts his studies at the Gilardo Gilardi Conservatory -a renowned school of music in BA. He then enriches his studies with the guitarists Diego Sandullo and Néstor Gómez.

From 2004 to 2006 he was part of the group “Aires” which performed Latin-American folk rhythms. The group was completed by Marcelo Hahn, Víctor Videla, Pablo Palleiro, and Guido Claverie.

In 2007 and 2008 he presents himself as a guitarist in a tour to Brazil and Argentina.

In 2009 he is called by Gustavo Zurbano (member of the acclaimed trio of tango Catalá-Negri-Zurbano) to take part in his new work “Argentina Morocha”*, as a guitarist and arranger.

*Morocha (Literally: of dark complexion).