Storytime: Geisha casi es seleccionada para ser corista de Carlos Marín de Il Divo
Geisha is almost selected to be Carlos Marin's chorus girl (member of Il Divo)
What's up, fellas? Again I'm here telling my experiences and this time I come with the story of how because of a friend I ended up auditioning for Carlos Marin of Il Divo.
To put them in a little context if they don't know who Carlos Marin is, I'll explain briefly who he is:
He's a Spanish lyric singer (baritone), actor, producer and manager. He has performed in musicals such as Los Miserables, Beauty and the Beast, Grease and Peter Pan, just to mention a few. Il Divo is a musical quartet inspired by the Three Tenors, which takes up pop music and other styles with opera.
Well, now let's travel to the year 2014, at that time I was already studying Performing Arts and thanks to the dates I had of exams, I had not been able to attend some meetings to which I was invited by a friend (the same one who discovered me in FanFiction) of the club I belonged to. Curiously, it was an official fan club endorsed by Sony Music, from Il Divo.
I knew from her that Carlos Marín and his ex-wife sometimes sang together when Carlos wasn't on tour or recording with Il Divo... the things you learn from friends.
I didn't dislike Carlos' voice, I even liked it. Maybe not in a fan's end that has the full albums but as a good follower.
Amiga: Geisha, Carlos va a hacer audiciones y deberías participar.
Geisha: ¿Audiciones?
Amiga: Sí, anda buscando coristas para la gira en México…
Geisha: Oye pero yo no tengo buena voz, me falta mucho para ese nivel.
Amiga: Cantas muy bien y yo digo que sí te quedas.
Back at school, I was taking the acting module on camera and I was just learning how to audition on camera when my friend called me.
Friend: Geisha, Carlos is auditioning and you should participate.
Geisha: Auditions?
Friend: Yes, he's looking for choristers for the tour in Mexico...
Geisha: Hey, but I don't have a good voice, I'm far from that level.
Friend: You sing very well and I say that you do.
I wiped away a tear that came out from listening to this girl's words and I decided to check the bases. That really were just sending an audio file singing some classic song. And I had just learned "Think of me" in Spanish from Los Miserables.
I recorded it professionally on my computer and sent it, again thinking that I would not stay.
A very Mexican expression that could not define this better is "Huevos", which could be said to be similar to "Shit".
Huevos, I'm being told to go to a live audition!
I had to talk to the school administration to get permission to audition since I had already spent my sick leave. And now I'm off on an adventure with a boyfriend who was a makeup artist - and was my teacher at this school too - almost south of the Mexican capital. So in between hours of traffic, music, rehearsals, and a pleasant chat, we entered the meeting place.
But again I would think the phrase "Hello God, it's me again", because I met a teacher from school there and I was afraid it was with the gossip that I met the former teacher.
Anyway, she left, didn't say anything, and I checked in. But my dumb ex-boyfriend also registered to be with me and put on the record that he was Jade Powel, a porn producer.
We were waiting, when I saw a blonde woman enter who I recognized immediately. It was Innocence, Carlos Marin's ex-wife, and she wasn't alone, she came in with four dancers and the manager to a salon. And my luck couldn't be better, they came in just as I was about to pass.
Pero esa es otra historia.
Luckily Carlos Marín was not there, and as I expected, everyone sang Il Divo songs or musicals. His friend Geisha sang "Castillos" by Amanda Miguel.
I suppose I didn't do so badly because they smiled at me a lot when I passed by.
In the end, I left almost running because they were looking for Jade Powel, they chose some recommended guys from the same The Voice TV station. And after I saw Innocence again, the dancers, the manager and I met Carlos, the woman recognized me, or said she had seen me before. I never told her where from.
But that's another story.
Y bueno amigos, esa fue mi historia de lo que es un "callback" para coros.
Si quieren conocer a Carlos Marín y las canciones con las que audicioné, les dejo los links a continuación:
Carlos Marín e Innocence cantando Fantasma de la Ópera.
Piensa en mi (Think of me) versión para dúo en Smule.
La versión de Castillos que canté.
And well, folks, that was my story of what a choir callback is.
If you want to know Carlos Marin and the songs I auditioned with, I leave you the links below:
Carlos Marín and Innocence singing Phantom of the Opera
Think of me Smule's duo version.
The version of "Castillos" I sang.
If you made it this far, thanks for reading a little bit about what I am.
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