Creo que cuando estás seguro de quién sos, sobre todo, y de lo que das, no hace falta inventarte cuentos sobre vos. Y de pronto un bolero , cualquier cosa te canto.
ALEXANDRA GARCÍA: Yeah. It's like, why do you fear me? I call it a defiant bolero , because it's a song directly to patriarchy, with all the intention of destroying it. So I really was looking into stories, and some of them are related to something that happened in Puerto Rico
She's not even wearing flesh colored tights tonight because she has broken with protocol, and her pale flawless legs are bare, and her eyes are terrified. She wrenches off the little bolero jacket, hearing a seam rip. She fights her hair in it's till it falls down.
And let's see if you can recognize the piece I'm playing. Anybody recognize that? "Bolero ?" "Bolero ." And that's an actual saxophone solo that's in "Bolero ," along with every other orchestral wind instrument. And it was written in the late 1920s by Ravel.
Then when you get on the plane, you can take them off again. And everybody would sort of sing these wonderful boleros off into the Cuban Havana moonlit night with bottles of rum and cigars being passed around.
Because of the fact that my grandfather, even if we all from Puerto Rico, he would say that I'm Puerto Rican, but in music, I'm Cuban. And there's a specific song, the song bolero , called "Convergencia," And that's the bolero that my grandfather make my grandmother fell in love with. Ah. So that's why I say, because of Cuban music, probably, I'm here.
While her early work has been described as pop or jazzy, her own compositions evolved into combining genres of diverse rhythms, such as folklorico, Mexican rancheras, corridos, cumbias, bolero , hip hop, blues, and soul, winning her multiple Grammys and Latin Grammy Awards. The daughter of a Scottish-American professor father and an indigenous Mixtec singer businesswoman mother, this Oaxacan-born singer-songwriter
So we took that from there, and then we tried to put in our way of today until it gets more contemporary. That's from there and then from the sun, and from the cha-cha-cha, from the bolero , from many, many places. So I think that our music have a lot from there and then, of course, from the jazz because we are in love with jazz and we listen a lot.