Fiction and reality mix Melody. The girl from the subwaythe new musical series in Spanish premiered on Wednesday 22 February via Amazon Prime Video, available throughout Latin America and the United States.
The plot, which takes place in 13 episodes and features 26 original songs, singing stars Yas Gagliardi and Sarah Lenorealso inspired by their own stories of emerging and successful artists, with a certain magical spice added.
An Argentinian protagonist
Gagliardi is Argentine, soloist and has become known for her participation in the Netflix series Go! Live your way while Lenore is an American and international pop singer-songwriter, who rose to fame after reaching the final stages of the hit reality show America’s Got talentin his country.
In melodyit works too a large Argentinian cast of famous performers such as César Bordón, Luis Machín, Peto Menahem, Muriel Santa Ana, Benjamín Alfonso, Marcela Morelo, Carla Pandolfi, Ariadna Asturzzi and Ulises Puigróss.
For their part, the songs interpreted by Gagliardi and Lenore will be published and promoted by the Warner Music Latina record label. Shot between Miami and Buenos Aires, melody is the first music series in Spanish produced by Warner Music Entertainment.
Not just love and romance
The episodes will showcase stories for youth and family audiences that explore love and romance, but also raise relevant issues such as bullying, social justice, equality, pressure to fit in, and difficult family situations.
The story is centered around music that glorifies human values and emotions such as love, dreams and friendship.
Gagliardi plays Melody, a girl who sings on the subway and dreams of making it. At the same time, she greatly admires Layla (Lenore), a pop star living in the United States. Melody lives with her uncles and secretly sings to them about old family stories that also hold a secret that she doesn’t know.
For her part, Layla feels pressed by the success machine and begins to hear voices speaking to her in Spanish, a language she doesn’t know. Far from worrying about her, she decides to follow her instincts and find out what lies behind the mystery.
In this way the lives of both young women, each in a corner of the planet, will cross their destinies, thanks to music. And nothing will ever be the same for either of them.
a large production
“melody is a captivating, family-friendly, music-driven series that taps into the exploding Spanish-language market by transcending cultures with its universal messages,” said Charles Cohen, president of Warner Music Entertainment.
During the Content Americas 2023 edition, the first promotional single of the series was presented last January, with a live musical, Ready nowa song written and produced by José Luis Pagán, where the singers show the artistic connection they have both in real life and in fiction.
Pagán is also showrunner and executive producer and series creator along with Sarah Lenore. melody It is directed by Daniel Castiglioni and written by Solange Keoleyan.
Source: Clarin
