Since I was little I used to play a lot in the neighborhood, I went to Callej\u00f3n de Hamel, to Parque Trillo. My mom left work at five in the afternoon, and at that time my grandmother would stand at the door and pssssssss me and forget about it; Wherever I was, I listened to the pssssssss and knew it was time to go home, take a shower, and get decent so my mom could take me to dance classes.<\/p>\n
From kindergarten to fourth grade, I mataperri\u00e9 a lot, but one day a teacher came up with a musical group in the neighborhood elementary school, and I said \"I want to be the one who plays the bongo\", and it was very funny, because then the boys sang and They danced and the little girls one played the drum, another the maracas, another the clefs. We had costumes and everything, and so we went to play in a pile of places, even at the Spanish Embassy, we hardly gave classes.<\/p>\n
Preschool through fourth grade mataperri\u00e9 <\/em>a lot, but one day a teacher had the idea of starting a musical group in the neighborhood elementary school, and I said "I want to be the one to play the bongo drum", and it was hilarious, because then the boys would sing and dance and the girls would play the drum, another the maracas, another the keys. We had costumes and everything, and so we went to play in a bunch of places, even to the Embassy of Spain, we hardly gave classes.<\/p>\n One day I found a beat-up electric piano in the trash and took it home. My mom fought me a lot, and I told her "I want to study piano!" (This I had never told, really). He told me "well, that's fine"; She took me to a teacher who gave private music lessons when she dubbed the house, but she was too old to study piano at school, and she asked if there was another instrument that I liked and I answered \u201cwell, percussion\u201d; and after a year of preparation I presented myself at the Manuel Saumell Conservatory.<\/p>\n I knew a little bit that I wanted drums, but when I entered the school only classical percussion was taught. The next day I told my mom "get me out of there because I don't want to spend all day with that boring box", because I thought I was going to start playing drums, and it never was like that. But finally I stayed studying classical percussion. Then a teacher had the idea of making a jazz-band<\/em> and that's how I started on the drums for real. The level pass for the Amadeo Rold\u00e1n was a huge battle, every day a different exam. I wanted to quit, but my mom gave me strength, and I did.<\/p>\n I was awesome, really. One day it occurred to me to say to my friends \u201cgentleman, we are going to take the M1, we get off at the last stop and then we return\u2026\u201d. But when we got off at the stop we realized that it was Bacuranao. The next day we told everyone: "gentleman, we get on the M1 and it takes us to a beach!". In high school, "schooling" was in one school and music in another, so, before going to music, we would bathe on the boardwalk and then we would wash off the salt in a Cupet sink, so that the director of the school did not discover us.<\/p>\n Around that time we made a group called Pentajazz. Alfredito Rodr\u00edguez, Papucho \u2014of Manana Club\u2014, Jorgito Arag\u00f3n and Julio Vald\u00e9s, for example, passed by. Once we went to play La Zorra y el Cuervo and they wouldn't let us in because we were minors, and the concert was ours. I learned a lot and I studied a lot, they made me study and try hard.<\/p>\n My social service? Imagine that they placed him all year long on the Isle of Youth, in Sancti Sp\u00edritus and in Guant\u00e1namo, to teach. And I didn't want to go far. I was lucky that Anacaona asked me, and there, in the orchestra, I spent my social service.<\/p>\n I came from playing jazz, I didn't know anything about timba, but when they asked me \u00abdo you play timba?, do you play drums with timbal?\u00bb. He always answered "yes, yes...". They tested me in a rehearsal and there more or less cacharr\u00e9e<\/em>. A week after graduating we went to Pinar del R\u00edo to a concert. And all wrong. After a while, when we were in confidence, they confessed to me that several of them had told Georgia that I didn't fit in, that I wasn't going to put up with the two-hour shows without stopping. And Georgia replied \u00abwe are going to give her a vote of confidence, you will see that she is going to achieve it, because jazz players are like that. If in three concerts he doesn't catch, then we'll see\u00bb.<\/p>\n That day I ended up crying. I got home and said that I wasn't going to go to the orchestra anymore, that I wouldn't put it in the timba\u2026 We had returned to Havana on a Tuesday, and on Friday we already had another concert at a carnival, I don't remember where. What did I do? I began to study: Van Van complete, Manolito Simonet, the Salsa Doctor, timba, timba pa' bajo in those two days, and then I began to play on top of the Anacaona songs, to put things on them, and already in the concert on Friday I did a tremendous show, and everyone was "what happened to her in two days?". That's how I fit in.<\/p>\n Today I remember those student times spectacularly well. And I miss a lot of things: the shenanigans we used to do, bathing on the boardwalk, the groups with friends\u2026 We have one on WhatsApp called \u201cWe are old\u201d, where we remember those days with great emotion.<\/p>\n The truth is that I still feel like a girl and in some way that has been reflected in my career. And when I'm playing drums, when I'm on stage, I feel so fulfilled, like a girl who can't let go of her toy. And I still love games, when I see children out there I go straight to them. I think I will always be a naughty teenage artis<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Desde chiquita yo tocaba cantidad en el barrio, me iba al Callej\u00f3n de Hamel, al Parque Trillo. Mi mam\u00e1 sal\u00eda del trabajo a las cinco de la tarde, y a esa hora mi abuelita se paraba en la puerta y me hac\u00eda pssssssss y olv\u00eddense de eso; donde quiera que yo estuviera, escuchaba el pssssssss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":982,"featured_media":6035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8908,8906],"tags":[7528,23,50,699,538],"coauthors":[669],"class_list":["post-6034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-descarga","category-variaciones","tag-anacaona","tag-descarga","tag-jazz","tag-manuel-saumell","tag-yissy-garcia"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazineampm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yissi_web-baja.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10508,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034\/revisions\/10508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6034"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}