We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Olga Basanta. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Olga below.

Hi Olga , thanks for joining us today. Do you wish you had started sooner?

I have learned that things happen as they have to happen, but if there was a back button I would start training as a composer and producer much sooner. Over the years I have discovered that the more tools you have in music your chances of success will increase.

Although I started studying music at the age of 7, it was not until many years later that I decided to dedicate myself body and soul to music, but now with all the learning I have accumulated, and with the current moment of music, I have become friends with the technologies before would have helped me get along better with production and recording software

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

As I said, I started studying music at the age of 7, my two older sisters played flute and cello before me, so it was easy for me to choose an instrument and start studying, and I chose the viola. Years later I realized that what I really wanted was to sing, and I began to combine them.

At the same time I studied a diploma in documentation, something that had nothing to do with the world of music, and it was when I graduated that I decided to dedicate my life to music completely.
Then I started my personal project Olga Basanta that took me to travel throughout much of Latin America and the United States.

I have sung in incredible settings like the National Auditorium of Mexico, and I have sung in front of more than 40,000 people, but I have also sung in places whose name I don’t remember in front of 10 people.
If there is something that has always helped me, it is thinking that there are 10 or 10,000 people in front of me, my show has to be the same, the most important thing is to put your soul into what you do, and when what you do is honest, it reaches people. fills him.

What I am most proud of is undoubtedly having composed the soundtrack for The Way Home and having received so many recognitions, and what I am least proud of is that I allowed myself to be manipulated by some people in the industry, forgetting my emotions and my dreams. from what they told me.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

The most wonderful thing about choosing music is being able to reach millions of people and be part of the soundtrack of their life, accompanying them in unforgettable moments or in moments of pain, being the melody that heals their wounds. Music has the power to heal, to generate different emotions.
When you dedicate yourself to doing what you love, you don’t feel like you’re working, and I really enjoy getting on stage, getting into the recording studio, getting inspired by the stories that surround me to write new songs, the good thing about music is that there are many ways to do it.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

When I started to dedicate myself to music I thought I could only do it with someone else, and I was always accompanied by musicians on stage, by producers in the studio, because I really believed that I alone was not enough. It was when I went to live in Mexico in 2017 that I had to start from scratch and I had to break with that belief that I needed someone else, little by little the circumstances led me to learn to be self-sufficient and to be able to present myself alone in the stages, on the radio and in interviews.
I had to unlearn that I needed someone else to be able to do what I loved.

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Charo Guijarro