30 Years From Chaco, Illya Kuryaki and The Valderramas: in Advanced Position

In his recent solo shows and before entering a retro funkero and rapper final passage, Emmanuel Horvilleur refers to himself as a prophet. He does so, of course, with peckishness, adding that in his 50s he gives the leather to interpret the singer of Illya Kuryaki and The Valderramas, the band that he founded with his friend Dante Spinetta in the early 1990s and that he predicted this present of popular music of incessant flow, lunfardo without …

“We were with Emma walking through New York and she drove by with all Latino guys from there, Puerto Ricans, girls with huge Afros, listening to ‘Abarajame’ at full volume. We looked at each other and said: “We arrived.” So Dante Spinetta remembered that moment in the late 2000s – in an interview with Diario RIO BLACK – the impact Chaco had had. Because...