Meet Lenin Tamayo, the social networks phenomenon that melies Quechua and Ok-Pop

LIME – The Peruvian Lenin Tamayo listened since formative years song from the Andes that his mom sang in Spanish and Quechua, probably the most spoken indigenous language of the American continent. In his early life, the Ok-Pop turned into his interest and allowed him to discover a staff of classmates with identical tastes who turned into an impregnable wall in opposition to the fierce harassment he confronted in his faculty for his indigenous options.

After finishing his psychology research on the Nationwide College of San Marcos he didn’t believe exercising his occupation. I sought after to be a singer and the Quechua combination with the Ok-pop naturally. “Why do not you switch this Ok-Pop revel in with Andean song?” Lenin stated, now 23 years outdated, whilst working towards his dance steps at house in a suburb of Lima.

Thus started in 2022 his revel in as a singer who has granted him greater than 4.4 million “likes” in his Tiktok account. Even though he has the semblance of unveiling his ability in outside concert events, for now social networks have helped him transmit his song that spreads “with no need an abysmal price range.”

The Peruvian singer Lenin Tamayo and his mom Yolanda Pinares, watch a mobile phone all through a recess of a recording of a video in Lima, Peru.

(Martin Mejia/AP)

Within the 5 virtual singles that he has introduced at the Web, he mixes lyrics in Spanish and Quechua with k-pop rhythms, in some way that he calls Q-pop with the “Q” of Quechua, an indigenous language shared by way of 10 million audio system in quite a lot of spaces of Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile, consistent with the United Countries. In an interview with The Related Press, Lenin stated that his song within the local language “is helping to embody the roots however, with out being oblivious to modernity and globalization.”

Lenin says that the aesthetics of the Ok-POP permits him to broaden a private proposal the place he mixes his personal choreography and a type of motion that is helping to make stronger his key message: love and freedom. “Like to unite villages and freedom to be oneself, as a result of it’s about hugging lifestyles and on the lookout for a complete, complete, actual lifestyles,” he says.

His lifestyles used to be at all times on the subject of the degree. The one son of Yolanda Pinares, a skilled fresh Andean song singer who, he affirms, taught him the significance of unveiling his Quechua identification in a rustic the place racism “is undercover”, however on the similar time it’s detected even in comedy methods on tv, the place indigenous individuals are mocked by way of their accessory when talking Spanish and their approach of dressing.

The Peruvian singer Lenin Tamayo, heart, practices a choreography with song from his fusion of Ok-Pop and Andean tradition.

(Martin Mejia/AP)

Lenin, whom his mom referred to as this in reminiscence of the Russian progressive Vladimir Ilích Uliánov, stated that in school he used to be burdened for being shy, along with having a skinny complexion, elongated eyes, black hair and instantly hair, in addition to sharp cheekbones. He believes that those characteristics, by hook or by crook identical some of the Andean younger other people and the singers of South Korea, have additionally pushed the Ok-Pop to popularize even in far off villages and at the outer edge of Lima, the place hundreds of thousands reside with indigenous roots.

“Artwork is a automobile to transport consciences and generate adjustments,” stated Lenin, who on Thursday introduced his debut album entitled “Amaru”, because of this snake in Quechua. “‘Amaru’ may be very tied with the historical past, lyrics, song, mythology of the Incas and with fashionable sounds,” he stated.

In a advance video of “Amaru”, to be had on Lenin’s social networks for a number of weeks, policemen seem by way of hitting protesters who elevate a Peruvian flag after which chase a lady who escapes via a wooded area of the Andes. This scene brings a recent reminiscence amongst Peruvians about fresh citizen protests that demanded the resignation of President Dina Boluarte and left 67 useless, many of the indigenous foundation and within the Andes.

The 23-year-old musician is referred to as the author of the Q-Pop or Quechua Pop, with songs in Spanish and Quechua.

(Martin Mejia/AP)

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Like 1000’s of Peruvians, Lenin participated within the protests initially of the yr within the capital. “You will need to to make this kind of song as a result of that permits to generate a metamorphosis and generate hope in younger other people,” he stated.