For Tobsol Garzón, whom Totó has recognized as his spiritual teacher since the early 1990s, is a woman with a great mystical tendency. “It is something in its being that makes it specific and unique. (…) he is the kind of person who has a very beautiful dream state, which very few people have; an ability to perceive beyond the normal “. Garzón spoke” of something magical, of a hidden prophetic vein that lit up from time to time“.
For its part, Juan Carlos Victoria, who has been in charge of the group’s strings for thirteen years nut: “That’s how I see it, so spiritually real that it becomes naive to think that someone can guide it. I always thought it was the other way around. Because it is an instrument of total light“.
On the other hand, as the leader of his musical group Totó, he always tried to make his musicians feel they belonged to a family and, as such, the Totó who lived with them for months on the big tours was like a mother. So she told me in one of the first interviews for the book: “Ah, I am the one who cooks, the one who washes, the one who irones, the one who knows about pelaos, the one who prays, the one who sweeps. A normal, ordinary woman; that when the boys are very messy, they put notices in the house that say: ‘Whoever takes an object from this place must put it back in his place. With you, The Management. With love, Totò ‘. I think that one as a mother, as a grandmother or as a human being has to teach everyone around them that life has order and when everything is organized, it comes to a happy ending.: families, countries and themselves. Furthermore, the universe is organized in this way“.
Totó’s strict demands against alcohol and any kind of substance, on or off stage or during rehearsals; his insistence on good conduct, in public and in private, by all his musiciansand the awareness of always representing the culture of a people while playing there, has always been a code of ethics for musicians on the payroll, and Marco has been tasked with ensuring respect, almost always with the support of Jorge Aguilar, the musician after of him with the greatest influence on the group.
For Giorgio, “Being alongside Totó means something great and renowned, it is getting in touch with great artists from all over the world and this opens your mind. Playing in a small group is not like playing in an internationally renowned group. People look at you differently; besides, they even envy you, in the good sense of the word“.
There were many hours of flying and traveling by train, bus and ferry that Jorge shared with her and He knew of his tiredness on those journeys, as well as of the attacks of joy that could assail Sonia Bazanta in the middle of a countryside. Once, traveling between Toronto and Chicago, she stopped the van to go and lie down on a green lawn, completely forgetting the singer who had given a concert that same night.
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