By Sole Ainesa
When she was 18, she left her native Pehuajó to live in Buenos Aires City. Sofía “Chule” Von Wernich started singing when she was a child and when she was 9 she was given her first guitar. Now, a year and a half after having moved to Buenos Aires City, Chule is making it in social media as one of the first musicstagrammers and she is followed by more than 300 thousand fans. Even “Las Leonas”, Argentine Hockey Team, follow her and they even ask her to interpret the National Anthem at each game of London Worlcup 2018.
After doing many versions of popular songs, shows, and alliances with many brands, now Sofia is preparing her own songs to reach new horizons. From mythical Chateau Marmont, Sole Ainesa interviews the artist that breaks it all with her charm. Get to know her here in Le Banana!
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How did your career start?
When I was 9 my mother send me to learn guitar because I didn’t like a lot being with people and when I saw the instrument, it was love at first sight. Each day, when I came back from school I got it and I sang to its music and that turned into a routine for me. When I was finishing school I started using social media to record myself and change some musical things and that is how this phenomenon started. First I was followed just by my family, then by people from nearby towns and the the audience was broadening till it was what it is now.
Are you surprised by the number of people who follow you?
I was never aware of what I could generate, I did it for my family and friends. I always liked the acknowledgment of people from my town, Pehuajo, but it became more like a job when I moved to Buenos Aires, after finishing high school. I was called to play at bars, weddings, birthday parties and then in 2017 I started working with brands and musicians. Last year everything was more formal and we did even five shows per week so that people know me all along the country.
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And next year you recorded your first EP, Vaivenes….
I wanted to get a little bit away from covers and start creating my own music with producers and composers. I want to grow in my career and each time I get on a stage and I listen to the audience singing my songs I feel a great joy. For the EP with created three songs and each one of them is about different moments of a love relationship. The first one is called Solo necesito One Love and it is about that first moment when you are absolving love with the other person. The second one is the one I like the most, it is called Vuelvo Contigo, and it is a sad ballad. It is about crisis. Lado a lao is the most urban of the three and it is about the process of going through those crisis and solving them.
What inspired you to create these songs?
Many people ask me if I am inspired by personal experiences, but the truth is not. They are about feelings that everyone feels some time. My friends always tell me their problems and I am good at listening to them so they are many times my inspiration. Last year I gathered with two Colombian producers and a Mexican composer and in just one afternoon we created “Dime para cuando¨. When you have people from so many countries producing something everything is better. The moment I met Mexican composer Carola Rozas immediately got one really well. She knows my voice and what I like doing.
You also did many collabs.
Yes, I sang with Sofía Reyes and Paty Cantú and we did a new version of one of their songs for Instagram. I would like to do something with Rosalía, I admire her a lot. Also with J Balvin, Ozuna or Morat, and with Bancho, who has a more acoustic kind of music.
Have you ever thought of writing songs and singing in English?
It might be a chance but in the future, now I want to sing in my own language. I would like to be known as a Latin singer first. Nowadays it is not necessary to sing in English to have a successful career.
Do you enjoy the production process?
Our production meeting last six or seven hours and we end up really exhausted but I really enjoy the process and I love it. I have never felt frustrated about it.
What does it mean to you being part of William Morris talents?
The most important aspect of being part of this agency is the great amount of global talents who came from it. I can hardly believe it. They are enthusiastic about my future and I am glad with that and inspires me to work harder to grow a little bit more each day.
How is for you to sing in the United States?
American people love listening to music in Spanish. It is a great moment for us because there are lot of Latin artist working with collabs and featurings. Maybe people in the States don’t understand the lyrics but they like listening to our music and that is great. Argentine people are much more passionate, in the States they are colder. But I have always had a very respectful and loving audience. I know I have a lot to experience yet here in my country but I think it is ok to start being known abroad also. In the past you had to be really famous here to go abroad, but now things have changed.
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