Writing about Alejandra Guzmán may be something like raining on wet, indispensable diva of contemporary Mexican musicality, thirty years of media presence, persistently leading pink and / or yellow publications, many gold and platinum albums, a number of awards but The so-called " Rock Queen " carries a conviction, rock bibles do not take it into account.
Why Ed Morales names her only once in her analysis of Latin American new music ( Ritmo Latino ) and only goes so far as to say " AG followed in the footsteps of Trevi, and evoked a libidinously uncontrolled cantine creature that reflects the lust of The males drenched in tequila ... ". La Guzmán does not appear in the dictionary of Latin rock, none of its albums, and there are many, enter the top 100 of the best albums of Aztec rock, rock historians evade. It seems that personality is more prominent than music, it happens that in itself is a treatise on psychology.
The electra mexicana
Although not musicologists, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung help us to create " the map " of La Guzmán . Her life in the womb is affected by the controversy in the media by the age difference of her parents, unlike usual, Silvia greater than Enrique . Then there will come the diminished attention of their parents in childhood due to continuous work commitments, ending with the customary sequel of an early and conflictive divorce
His first recordings reflect, directly or indirectly, those experiences that some call complex. Complaints towards the mother, preference for the father. Embrace emblematic themes of the musical career of Enrique Guzman , bet on rock, question the maternal roll, opt for the " counterculture " and defiant posture. Musically it's flirting with some primitive rock and roll versions and revisions of song badges. At least, his first six albums are anchored in a Miguel Rios sound of the early 80's, there is no evolution, little creativity, a kind of popera with rock insights, with a couple of themes that hook and become Milestones of popularity and sale.
Musical bipolarity
In the middle of the 90 begins another way of approaching the rock on the part of Alejandra , his disc Cambio de piel , was indeed that. From a very simple pop rock dares to approach the funk , of the commercial ballad tries to deepen in a hard rock blues (" Like the nuts ", of its better subjects). The role of the assigned producer, Carlos Narea , was vital. While it remains a pop rock job, it does not rock , there are significant changes; The most important, catch up with the international sound.
Always between two currents, as happened with his teenage crisis when he tried to reconcile the academic education imposed by the parents, with his artistic interest that was obvious and intense. Situation that was reproduced later under the influence of the new Mexican rock ( Kenny and Los Eléctrico ) without being able to leave of the primitive rock and roll of its father. Being a girl is fatal but at the same time fragile.
It is worth noting the sharing of the stage with rock fans such as the Rolling Stones or the Godfather of the funk James Brown , but undoubtedly always more attracted to collaborate with the band Moderatto , excellent musicians who play to parody, a model that approaches the style farandulero and Of " pay me attention ". Crowning this dilemma is her most recent tour with Gloria Trevi .
That pendular movement, we find it again with his voice. Alejandra Guzman has a privileged voice for the rock genre but eventually forms ranks with pop and ballad. There are many more metaphors about manic depressive psychosis but we close emphasizing the vital punk attitude as opposed to a chain of spouses and loves of business cut.
Peter Pan, always Peter Pan
From the initiatory rock , to pop , then more playful moments will come with flirting with Latin rhythms like the album Algo natural . It will continue with its pop line and traditional way and attitude. It will be a come and go of an already proven model of pop ballads with strong rock guitars.
Which Peter Pan syndrome, La Guzmán feels comfortable in his childish behavior, immediatista, self-complacent, enjoy the here and now. It maintains its rejection to deep responsibilities, opposition to the authority, emotional swings (marriage if, marriage not), attention is the motto. This wanting to be infinitely adolescent is repeated in his artistic production, it seems that the time never comes to make the final leap to rock, a longed but delayed realization.
Obsessive compulsive personality
Alejandra Guzmán has been and continues to be a fighter. It is possible that his compass zigzags, but his perseverance is undeniable, moreover, no one can take away what rocketed. His score of record productions, dozens of tours and collaborations or beat cancer, are proof of his determination that borders on stubbornness to reach his goals. He reconciled with his parents, not to mention the successes millionaires in sales and one another Grammy .
Definitely La Guzman is not the queen of Mexican rock , she is still a princess in the pop of her country with a court of conflicts that surely, with her entrance into advanced adulthood, will achieve taming.
