“The health crisis that we have experienced helped me to ask myself, who am I as a human being and as an artist? Where do I want to go? How do I want to live?…. It has been of such magnitude that many of us have asked ourselves questions that we would not have asked ourselves before ”.
With this reflection, Techy Fatule starts the interview with Efe and continues bluntly: “With the pandemic I lost my grandfather, my vital reference.” He pauses and goes on. “He was a very rich man humanly, he always lived for those who needed him.” But that very process of losing him… it inspired him. That also led him to wonder many other questions.
– What can you tell us about your grandfather?
– He was a national deputy and director of the CEAR, (State Sugar Council of the Dominican Republic), a good person, very rich in love and who opened my eyes. He told me: ‘what am I going to do with everything I have, I have health, work … while other people cannot even afford to go to a hospital’. The magnitude of the pandemic made us scramble in everything.
The Dominican artist is 34 years old, she is the mother of a nine-year-old boy to whom she dedicated the “Dylan’s Song” (2012) and now in her third studio album, “Siete”, she dedicates a love song to her husband , David.
Techy began singing at age 4 in addition to performing in children’s series and musical shows. Marielle Stephanie Fatule Báez, her real name, is the daughter of the singer and actor Carlos Alfredo Fatule and the communicator Tania Báez. They were the ones who soon discovered their daughter’s artistic talent and her interest in song.
He continued his studies at the Berklee College of Music in Boston (USA), but now Techy admits that he is fully committed to his musical career.
A child prodigy, she belonged to a children’s group that appeared in children’s spaces at the National Theater of the Dominican Republic and, later, in other children’s television shows such as the program “Sábado Gigante”, until in 1990 her family moved to Miami for reasons work of his father.
– What are your musical references?
– Juan Luis Guerra, Juanes,… .. many greats have taught me. When I was 7 years old, they gave me a Laura Pausini cassette and I fell in love with how it sounded, with her lyrics. And I wanted to be like her. I admire her, I adore her music.
But I also see that the bigger an artist is, the less ego he has. That is why I believe that artists owe ourselves to others, and that we have to help those who are just starting out, those who are below and, in my case, women.
– Who do you have, who would you highlight in your career?
– My father was a great inspiration to me. When I finish a song I send it to him, he tells me, and I his. We make a good team.
In 1997 she had her great opportunity when she starred in ‘Alice in Wonderland’ in the format of a children’s musical and later she participated in other musicals, including those of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ and ‘Evita’, and she was even La Bella in the classic ‘Beauty and the Beast’. He also worked on ‘Mujeres Asesinas’, between 2011 and 2012.
But, from then on, Techy focuses her talent on her role as a singer and songwriter. These are very important years for Techy. In 2011 her husband, David, married, and the following year their son, Dylan, was born.
– How do you consider yourself, a singer who acts, or more an actress who sings?
– I’m a singer. Artist. I have been developing in various fields of the arts for 30 years, but what I love the most is singing, although I can say that I have enough experience to define myself or consider myself as an integral artist.
– What does Techy Fatule sing to?
– My songs usually sing about love, about things in life. For example, the single “Todo” (2020), is a song written in a special moment for women, for all women, from music to politics.
– You have songs in which phrases like “You stay or you go” are said; “Give everything to you until I don’t even have a sigh”; “Let me give you everything” … Isn’t it to maintain in some way the old chiché of the woman subjected to the man?
– Those lyrics have been changing. Now they have acquired great importance in my songs and I do them with a message. The contribution of women in music is at a special time and also an empowerment for the female sex is taking place in society. I think there should be more equity and in music we have to keep growing, although many barriers have been broken.
– Who accompanies you in your performances?
– My team is almost all female, it is an almost complete girl band. My idea is that women should always support each other.
– How do you see the musical situation, but at one point you commented that music has changed a lot through the network?
– It has been enormously transformed. Now I am at home and there are people at the same time listening to me in Chile, Argentina or Spain. Before, if I didn’t visit those countries, and there was no press and marketing, it was very difficult for them to get to know me.
– He just got his fourth job, third study, “Siete”, which is made up of seven songs of his authorship, which follows “Long live the fucking romance!”, in which the spectrum of feminism opens with new themes.
– Now I’m trying to talk about different types of love. With this song, I close a very beautiful stage in my life after the success I had with “Chapter”, a Latin-pop album, with which I became known in several countries.
– How do you experience tours?
– In performances or tours in the US it is easier to reconcile with my family, with my son, and I may not be away for many days. I am lucky to live in “the center of the world”, because from Santo Domingo everything is close to me, on top of that I am well surrounded by trustworthy people who remind me of who I am, if that is the case.
– When will you come to Spain to show your music?
– At the beginning of next year I will return to Madrid on the occasion of the start of the new tour, since we saw that this is one of the countries where my music sounds the most and I have sometimes been at the forefront on Spotify.
Her acting career has taken a back seat, and as an example: “I just received a proposal to make a film shortly before I started promoting the tour, but I turned it down because of the music.”
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