Lucas Vidal premieres ‘Jimena soy yo’, a hilarious musical that introduces us to Carmela Rosingana along with Mariola Fuentes, Alberto Jo Lee and Francis Lorenzo.
After ‘Bad decisions’, the entertaining serial thriller in which Anna Castillo had to escape from the police, the platform Sonora premieres ‘Jimena soy yo’, the musical by Lucas Vidal that could become a live action series.
devised as a tribute to the genre that mixes references to the fundamental Andrew Lloyd Webber, to the classical musical or to the entrance of urban music in the most select stages‘Jimena soy yo’, follows the misadventures of a 50-year-old woman who, although she is not in a good working situation, is desperate to help her sister Concha and her brother-in-law Wang, a North Korean with whom she has a son who runs a restaurant and faces a Sanitation fine for massive poisoning.
Jimena will try to avoid it by all means, and to do so, she will fight to get a bonus as a clitoris sucker seller while she organizes a Peace Summit between the two Koreas. All this peppered with well-known songs and voices such as those of Cecilia Suárez, Mariola Fuentes, Jorge López, Francis Lorenzo, Edu Soto, Itziar Castro, Alberto Jo Lee, Lola Alterio and Boris Izaquirrecelebrities who do not outshine the real star, Carmela Rosingana, a woman with no previous acting experience who works as a social services official at the Madrid City Council.
“Lucas and I met thanks to his co-writer, Ainoa Careaga,” Rosingana explains. “It was in 2016, while I was working in the Cibeles building. They invited me to a breakfast, you already know that at work they have breakfastand I met Ainoa and it was a crush”.
Carmela’s charisma conquered Ainoa Careaga and reached Lucas Vidal, a composer who made his theatrical release at just 23 years old making musical arrangements for ‘Bee Movie’ (Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith, 2007) and who ended up taking charge of the score of titles such as ‘While You Sleep’ (Jaume Balagueró, 2011), ‘Invasor’ (Daniel Calparsoro, 2012) and ‘Fast & Furious 6’ (Justin Lin, 2013), all this before winning two Goya Awards in 2016 for the band soundtrack of ‘Nobody wants the night’ (Isabel Coixet, 2015), and for the original song of ‘Palmeras en la nieve’ (Fernando González Molina, 2015).
“Being audio Rhythm is very important, we needed to engage people“, explains Vidal about the creation of this new title from Sonora that will become part of his catalog of original and exclusive audio fiction and documentaries. “On a musical level, we wanted each number to have a different quality. There’s trap and reggaeton, there’s also eighties music, there’s gospel, Broadway-type music. It is a musical as it is, but very modernized. We wanted to attract young people to hear this story.”
“Well, I like ‘The Lion King’“, sincerely replies a Carmela who has been immersed in a project that has been recorded between Madrid and Vienna by a team of about 90 people, including a real choir and orchestra.
“Carmela’s story is great“, explains a delighted Francis Lorenzo. “A normal girl who works in the town hall and meets Ainoa Careaga and writes the whole story for her, composing a crazy story that it has been a pleasure to bring to life.”
“The thing is podcasts and audio formats are very interesting“, says Mariola Fuentes. “Whether you’re in the car or in the bathroom, it’s a fantasy for a little while that you have for yourself.”
“I am quite a neophyte”, admits Alberto Jo Lee. “That’s why It has been amazing to discover this new world in which we can work“.
“The thing is hearing has a special charm“, emphasizes Lorenzo. “Sonora has a point that seems very good to me, and that is that you can listen in the car, at home, with your headphones, and you discover other worlds.” Uncle Julito can handle everything.
“Well, taking it to the visual is being evaluated,” adds Vidal. “I can’t say more but he’s really liking this story and we’ll see what happens, but everything indicates that we are going to turn it into something visual, Jimena is going to give a lot to talk about“. When we ask Carmela if she sees herself reprising the character in a live-action series, the newcomer doesn’t hesitate: “Man, is that Jimena is me!“
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