The story of Stef, the participant of La Voz Argentina who made Lali Espósito cry

In the first broadcast of La Voz Argentina (this Sunday, June 5, on Telefe), at the end there was a tremendously emotional moment, which saw the protagonist Lali Espósito and a participant.

It was when Steve Figueroaa participant from Lanús (she is from Remedios de Escalada, a hamlet of that municipality) sang Sweet dreams and it was chosen, both by Lali and by Mau and Ricky and Ricardo Montaner, sworn together with Soledad Pastorutti.

Before her exquisite performance, it was learned that Stef is an admirer of John Lennon and that she has a Beatles tribute band, with whom she sang in England, where Julia Baird herself, John’s sister, saw her. and was amazed by his voice and likeness.

Julia Baird also pointed out that of the 100 participants in the Beatles contests held there, only two were women and one, in fact, Stef.

After choosing to stay with Lali’s team and thanking her parents for the “stamina” they have to be able to devote themselves to music, Stef said she didn’t always enjoy herself due to the discrimination sufferedand that music had been (and is) the source of healing.

Amid both tears, Lali was stunned when pilot Marley told her what Cinthia Lennon had said about who had just joined her team. “Ah, now an egg I have chosen for you sucks you,” Lali jokes and relaxes the atmosphere.

Of course before all of this, Clarione (in a note from Zonales, signed by Leonardo Sanabria), he had already told part of Stef’s story

My dear friend Giovanni

“My tone of voice is similar to John’s. Here’s why I chose him and not another beatle”, Said Estef Figueroa. She today she is 31 years old and is the pride of Remedios de Escalada, the place where she has lived since she was a girl.

She is one of the few women in the world to be recognized for her tributes to John Lennon. she pays homage to him every day for 24 hours: “I go out like this. I dress like him both to go to the supermarket and to sing on stage. And also to sleep, ”she clarifies.

His fanaticism for the artist began at the age of 15 when he heard Double fantasyseventh and final studio album by the ex beatle. “My thing it is not beatlemania, but lennonmania“, points out. Indeed, in La Voz Argentina, at the request of the jurors, he made a fragment of (Just like starting overof that record.

Stef also started dressing like the artist from that age and had immediate support from her parents. His dark brown hair, his round sunglasses and his army green jacket are part of his daily outfit.

“One day I got up and told my mom I was tired of long hair and miniskirts. From there I started with this “full time” tribute. I don’t see it as an imitation, but as a way of life. Lennon runs through me musically and sentimentally. “

Towards Liverpool

But not even she could imagine what would happen years later: “In 2015 The owners of the Liverpool “Cavern” wrote to me, to be part of the most important Beatles festival in the world. It was a great pride to play in that mythical place, I couldn’t get the bands that passed by out of my head ”, he confesses.

In addition, they included her in a celebration held at the “Royal Court Theater”. Over there open for Donovanthe singer and guitarist who is said to have taught Paul McCartney and John Lennon the technique of “Fingerpicking” (a particular way of playing the guitar with the fingers).

However, the praise for this Escalada artist was not only from producers or relatives of the former beatle: “When I traveled, I met Julia Baird, John’s sister. I continue to have fluid contact with her, he told me that it is a pleasure to listen to me and he feels a lot of admiration for what I do, ”says Estef.

She was also chosen to be one of the four juries of a Latin American competition that will choose two groups to travel to Liverpool and be part of the experience she herself had two years ago.

The contest took place as part of “Beatle Week”, on the anniversary of John’s murder. “It’s a pleasure that you take me into consideration. I would tell bands not to stop dreaming. I went from Lanús to Liverpool, from walking on Hipólito Yrigoyen Avenue to stepping on Abbey Road, ”he reflects.

He also drove the “Estefy Lennon Band”, tribute band to the musician: “I have a great love for John, for his activism and above all for his musical intellectuality. It seems very original to me to do a tribute band to this genius because there are not many dedicated to him and even less with a female performer ”, he explained.

the band mounted an album called “1981” with unreleased tracks of the artist.

“I put together demos composed by John that were recorded without being edited or mastered and were never released due to his death. They were song demos, they weren’t finished, that’s why they weren’t finished. We thought about how they could have finished and from there we gave them our stamp. “

“We relied heavily on the dance style that John had already envisioned on his latest album Double fantasy. Jack Douglas, one of his producers, listened to him, congratulated us and told us that he surely would have had a similar style if he weren’t dead. The pride that this generates in us is unique ”, he summed up.

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