2023-06-27 03:30:00
Serene and convinced of the step he will take, the musician from Salta Kike Teruel prepares for the last performance as part of the nighters, the folk group that he founded almost four decades ago and from which he will leave next Friday in a celebratory and farewell recital with the certainty that this group experience gave him “life itself”.
“Thanks to Los Nocheros I visited close to 200 countries, I achieved a lifestyle and I achieved unthinkable things for the group, for folklore and for Argentine music”, underlines Teruel during a dialogue with Télam on the terrace of a hotel in downtown Buenos Aires.
The postcard of the musician giving interviews in a place of passage is, precisely, part of the music industry’s own game, which is what a Kike pushes him away from the ring.
Charanguist, guitarist and singer born on May 9, 1965 in the city of Saltaasserts that his departure “is a totally personal determination that is a life decision because of what the environment of artistic life entails”, and adds: “It is that part that I renounce in some way”.
Kike publicly announced his departure from Los Nocheros on January 22, prior to the presentation of the group at the Cosquín Festival and other summer folk events, in what was expected to be a way to close that stage.
However, the health problem of her sister-in-law, Noemí Cristina Laspiur, better known as “La Moro”, which led to her death in early February, altered those plans.
the last nighterswith Rubén Ehizaguirre, Kike and Mario Teruel and Álvaro Teruel, who, in 2005, replaced Jorge Rojas.
now and with the Movistar Arena in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa Crespo As a setting, Los Nocheros will greet Kike’s departure with a recital called “Wherever he goes” which from 8 pm on Friday will bring together the group with artists including Soledad, Chaqueño Palavecino, Los Tekis, Ahyre, Ángela Leiva, Marcela Morelo, Los Alonsitos, Rodrigo Tapari and the duo Dani Cuevas-Gaby Morales.
Los Nocheros was born in the winter of 1986 At the impulse of Mario Teruel, Kike Teruel, Rubén Ehizaguirre and Enrique «Pala» Aguilera debuting at the Peña Gauchos de Güemes and recording two cassettes (“Al rojo vivo” and “Nuestra Salta”).
still with a Revelation Award at the 1993 Baradero FestivalAguilera decided to go to the Cuatro de Salta, allowing the entry of Jorge Rojas, with whom the group achieved the Consecration at the Cosquín Festival the following year and boosted its takeoff.
It is a life decision because of what the environment of artistic life entails. It’s that part that I give up in a way.”
Kike Teruel
Among the great achievements of this path was the million copies sold of “Signos” (1998), the success of “Between Earth and Heaven” as the most listened to song on Argentine radio in 1999, filling the Vélez stadium in 2000, arriving at the Colón together with the Salta Symphony in August 2002, a season in which he also completed 11 performances at the Luna Park stadium.
The departure of Rojas and his replacement by Álvaro Teruel (Mario’s son and Kike’s nephew) materialized in 2005 with another packed stadium, in this case Ferro’s, and around 2009 and teamed up with Soledad and Chaqueño Palavecino (also representatives of that popular folkloric and romantic aesthetic that made a dent in the ’90s) animated “La Fiesta” in a return to Vélez to finalize its first European tour the following year with stops in London, Paris and several cities in Spain, the inaugural step of a bet international movement that later reached Australia and, a little later, also to a large part of the United States and Latin American countries, to name just a few events.
Q: Isn’t it hard for you to give up all those achievements?
Kike Teruel: Not really. I want to arrive safe and sound at the age that life allows me. What tired me were the downtime on trips, in hotels, coming and going, which made me an absent father for a long time and my family had to accommodate me, but my need is to get home whole. I don’t want to return destroyed, and because I consider that my mission of singing is already accomplished.
Q: Does that imply that you give up music?
KT: Music never stops and I don’t know who abandoned music in their life, but I do want to leave that other part. A song comes out of there and nowadays with social networks I can show it, but it’s something I didn’t think about either, I didn’t think anything of it. We always lived very openly and calmly as a family, whatever comes out is going to have to be like that. I do have business and social projects that I want to carry out but I don’t know where life will take me.
Q: Has music always marked your life? Do you come from a family of artists?
KT: Music shaped and forged me because I have been playing since I was 8 years old when my dad took me to a friend who taught charango and the following year we were already singing with Mario in the Teruel Duo. But since my family is not artistic, when we decided to leave everything else and dedicate ourselves to that, it was difficult for them to accept it, it was very resistant. I was studying Engineering and I was already in my fourth year and I always came home awake and a teacher told me “study or sing”, and I told my wife, who I’ve been with since she was 18 years old, and she told me “well, I chose what you want to do”. But for my parents it was not so easy to accept because they have a different conception of life: a fixed salary, social work, security, what anyone wants for their children.
Music never stops and I don’t know who ever abandoned music”.
Kike Teruel
Q: On a personal level, has having an established family helped you to stay grounded beyond the impressive success?
KT: I would have gone crazier but I also went crazy because you do believe it, you feel like you own the world and that life is easy. We went from singing for 20 people in a rock to, in five or six years, having festivals and stadiums exploited; but luckily for my family, my wife and the environment of friends and others, I came and went and I was able to return to try to be normal.
Q: How do you imagine this farewell at the Movistar Arena is going to be? Can you regret it?
KT: I’ll be able to tell you the next day (laughs), I know it’s going to be a very nice moment to be able to share with so many friends who reserved the night to join us, to say goodbye, and I’m very grateful for that, but it’s not hard for me; there is nothing traumatic, there is nothing strange, it is just a decision on how I want to continue.
Q: And where do you want to continue?
KT: As I said in January, I have a social and business task ahead of me. In the social sphere, we have been doing many things with my wife, we have a foundation with which we built a large dining room in Salta and we have very nice projects to do, such as a shelter for women who suffer gender violence, a food bank, and nursing homes. These projects come hand in hand with a financing model proposed by the United Nations through “carbon credit”, which is an original model from a Canadian consultancy with which we are working.
Q: Does political management appear to you as another possibility?
KT: I like it and I have it there very much on the cat flap because most of the politicians got us into a rift, in a fight that divides us while they go around hugging and kissing. So I wouldn’t get involved now because everything is violent and aggressive and I’m not politically correct, but I do believe that in a few years, if I prepare well and have plans and projects, I could do it.
Q: Salta, where you live, is part of the Argentine territory that makes up the so-called lithium triangle. Both the displacement of communities for the extraction of this mineral and the regulations against social protest were approved in that province and also in Jujuy where there is a great conflict. How do you see the situation?
KT: It is a very delicate subject of which you have to know and you have to see both parts. One television channel shows us as if we were Venezuela and the other as if we were Switzerland, and we are neither one thing nor the other. I believe that lithium is going to give a lot of work and I know closely places in Catamarca and La Rioja that suffered this mining situation 20 years ago and have grown a lot but without water, so we have to see what is worth more.
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