Our Story

Chapter 2: Background

I was born in Lanús, a city on the Greater Buenos Aires, the conglomerate of cities surrounding Buenos Aires City. I am an only child with a non born sibling. School was fun for me and easy. I was kind of nerdy but not an actual one. I just loved learning things I was interested, I still do. I used to go to this school where we took a lot  of workshops like radio, chess, drama, music, and the made musicals at the end of the year like broadway but cheaper. In fourth grade my music teacher told me I could sing a Solo on that year's musical. I had not noticed I could sing, but of course she was the teacher and realized that.

Miss Vero took me aside and I remember her saying 'I would like you to have this part where you sing and dance this song, it's a full act... would you like to?'. A decision, at age of 9. Now that I think of it, that was the first decision I made that changed the course of my life, it was not another one I will tell you shortly. My answer was yes, and I became Lilí, from the 1953 musical, and sang 'Hi Lili, Hi Lili, Hi Lo'. I would constantly be mocked by that but in a cute way, some 8th grader called me Lollipop as a moniker. After that I kept singing in the choir and some acts until I left school.

The year 2000 was another tought one too. My parents had just split some months before and we moved with my mum to a flat two blocks from school. My grandma had three heart attacks and we had to travel with my mum a lot to Mar del Plata -where I live now- and we would stay days and weeks there so that made me miss a lot of classes. My math grades dropped, and after a kind of brutal class of sex ed for 12yo kids, I became bullied by my fellow classmates who knew me since kinder 3. It was heartbreaking. I believe it became worse after one classmate's sister, we'll call her 'R', which was in 9th grade started badmothing me after a misunderstanding with the viceprincipal. She thought I snitched on her because we were all ordered to do something with the 9th graders and she had not done it yet. The Vice principal had asked about that order and i had actually said the 9th graders haven't started so that is why it was delayed but the Viceprincipal chose to understood as they 'didn't want to' do it. Funny thing, I was with 'R' sister when we spoke to de VP, and she never defended me.  

Inbetween all these situations, Miss Vero, not knowing of my situation, came again to me and asked me to star at the next musical as Cinderella's Fairy God Mother. I could choose a song to sing to, I could get to change the lyrics. I said yes again. It was one of the things that saved me that year, though it gained me a bit more bulliyng from 'R' because she was one of the the stepsisters and acted a lot. Miss Vero came back later that year and also asked me to sing some sort of sonnets telling Romeo's and Juliet's story at a play 9th grade were going to, where also 'R' was going to be Juliet. I said yes to that too, but asked to sing with two other girls, one from eight grade and the other from ninth, because I was afraid of more and more bullying, although I omitted to say that last part, I just said those two girls sang better than me and it would be fair for them to sing too (one was going to be freaking Cinderella on the Musical, and the other one was a personification of Magic in the story and acted as an introduction act). It was in the midst of everyting that I came to my senses and took the –now- second most important choise of my life: to change schools. I asked my mum to chage me after the school year was over. She agreed since she couldn't do much either, she also worked at that school and kind of got bullied too, first because she had to take a lot of leaves absences because of my grandma's health issues and also since she didn't want me to keep having those sex ed clases, the other teachers told her she was raising a nun. Those bastards. It is a way of child abuse to give explicit sex education classes to 12yo without further warning. I was glad that she did that back then, the bulliyng hurt like hell, but I never blamed my mum.

So, the musical was a success and I had the best time of my life while dancing and lip-syncing to the song I had already recorded at a music studio, guided by Vero. It was the best goodbye to my old self. Oh, how many old selves we get all of through our lives.

Changing school was for the best, I met the best people, I ended up being 'salutatorian' on our high school, and was never bullied again. Well not until some jobs on my youth, you never get rid of bullies, but you learn to confront them... most of the time.

Last year of highschool I started learning to play keyboard. We had bought one when I was 11 and Miss Vero taught me a little bit at school but never really continued until then. Then we moved to Mar del Plata after graduation.

Here I had nobody but my gramps and my mum. I studied a Hotel Management course the first year and started meeting people. It had been my dream to run a Hotel since my grandpa managed one in tye city when I was little, I grew up there. I entered to one of the most prestigious Hotels in my brand new city – where I met my ex- and in 2008 I entered Uni to study Tourism– where I met Lore. That is sort of my background until that summer of 2011, where I met him and kind of set foot on the right path, where I would dream and achieve the inimaginable –well at least for me-, fear the most, laugh the most and find my two vocations. 

'La chica Beatle' (The Beatle Girl)

One important thing before continuing. I got that moniker from a friend in freshman year in highschool before I turned 15. I had seen a Beatle Expo in Mar del Plata during 2003 summer vacations and met this band called Columbia whom played there. That was the first time I saw Beatle Music played live. I knew the Beatles since I was in my mum's womb. She sung their songs to me when I was a kid, and in my 13's I became actually aware of their music and a total fan.

I had Columbia's musicians to sign a bar menu for me, and kept it as atreasure in my Lord of the Rings school diary/calendar. One day, this friend was looking throuhg it and found the menu and the expo tickets. When he returned it to me he said "Take it, Beatle girl" and it became my nickname, sort of sealing my destiny.