Juanjo Hermida: "I had to wake up"

"I had myself to wake up", says Juanjo Hermida, one of the most interesting pianistas of the musical scene, to explain its present change.

Musician respected by his pairs, reappears in the scenes after a self-imposed pause to reorganize itself humanly and to leave again to proscenio.

During an interview with the NATION he tells that he let the Bohemian back to retake his studies of classic piano and to dedicate itself to make "a life like anyone".

After the pause, from almost two years, the activity arrived and today, for example, it acts by double game. To 19,30, with a quartet of tango in the House of the Province of Buenos Aires and, to 22,30, in the restaurant of jazz Orestes Paladar, with the trio of Porgaón jazz.

The history of this musician tastes special. Two years back the voice was run of which there was dead, and the situation was of such confusion that nobody dared to deny the rumor. "I believe that it arose from an ex- despechada pair (smiles); the trio of the bear Norberto Norbis even dedicated a subject to me and they touched it in a show in which they said "to Juanjo, that it watches to us from the sky". (Pause) You imaginás, if just I enter, is infartan ", east musician smiles to whom call" the Víctor Sueyro of the jazz ".

Hermida, that participated in the Mississippi during ten years, is marplatense and with an interesting history. To the three years it began to touch tangos in harmonica, of ear. It comes from a musical family, five musical brothers and one mother with perfect ear. "She does not know it, but when she has been singing for all the pitch flexions of perfect way", she says.

Of the harmonica to the piano without scales, although it remembers that it had his first electrical piano only ten years ago. Before it was a nomadic pianista that began very young to act in the confectionery Carlos V, in front of the Bauen hotel. Up to here, a common history, only that there is a revealing detail, was nothing else six years old and it took to the mother each weekend to it.

It is a born improvisador of great intuition, which allows to touch him in varied stylistic contexts. Band Jazz began young like pianista of the Bristol, where he was his brother Gabriel in the contrabass.

- In that time you made adjustments for the Mississippi?

-(Piensa) were no special adjustments. In the rock it is not necessary to study, piloteás history by the amount of people who llevás.

- the study is a debt?

- Totally. In addition for destacarte in the tango or the jazz tenés that to study. And now I have desire to study, I am or not a debt, I have desire. I do not do it for another reason that to want to be better musician and for that there is to work.

Hermida returns to scene. "God gave a gift me, and is necessary to work it. In the only place where success appears before work is in the dictionary ", it concludes.