It seems when the solar is about to vanish. It could be a seashore, a subject of sunflowers or the noisiest avenue in Cádiz. José Ramón solely wants a sundown and the automobile on which he has mounted his grand piano. And there, in the course of day and evening, the place all the things appears to come back to an finish, he begins to play the pianist of the sundown, often known as the ‘Angel of Music’.
However, his crush on the piano was one morning. José Ramón García was 16 years outdated and was subsequent to his father’s transport truck in Puerto Real ready for some order. “The Sensation Orchestra carried out there,” he recollects now, “they needed to carry out within the afternoon on the Corredera cinema in Conil de la Frontera.” And in these 40 kilometers he fell in love with music.
His first instrument was a keyboard. “My father could not purchase me a piano,” says José Ramón, who spent six months together with his palms on the glass window of the shop ready for the Three Wise Men to reach that yr. “Then I attempted to enroll in music faculty, however they threw me out,” he confesses, “they stated I had no ear.” The anecdote continues to be instructed 4 a long time later in all of her live shows.
José Ramón in his first bands.NIUS
Without faculty, however with want… with out a piano, however with a keyboard, José Ramón realized how he may and started to play in several teams. “I spent a yr in Puerto Real taking part in sevillanas and rumbas”, he tells NIUS, though he did not prefer it an excessive amount of. He later turned a part of a rock group, the place he was extra snug, however he didn’t earn something.
In the top the orchestras arrived and with them the performances on the dances. “That’s the place we began to earn cash,” says José Ramón, and with that cash he started to purchase higher tools. That was how he bought his grand piano and after his profession in orchestras he ended up working as a resort pianist for a few years.
A profitable firm
At that stage he determined to create an organization to carry his piano to weddings. He was so profitable that he quickly had a employees of 20 pianists and 10 grand pianos. “There have been occasions once we had as much as eight weddings on the identical day,” says José Ramón. However, the stress and stress of the enterprise overwhelmed him. “I placed on 120 kilos with a lot stress”, tells us the pianist, who in the present day has misplaced 50 kilos.
Always on the cellphone, he stopped feeling like a musician and that is why he wished to finish all the things. “I made an property and I left it”, so simple as that. Three years earlier than the pandemic, José Ramón left all the things besides the piano, which he placed on a cart with wheels and took to the streets. He went from businessman to avenue musician. Every day of the week he went to the nook of Cádiz.
Jose Ramón appearing.NIUS
“I’d arrive, put down the piano, do a live performance and go away,” he tells NIUS. He solely performed the piano, the remaining was executed by social networks. “When I spotted he had a number of followers,” says José Ramón, “he solely introduced the place he was going to be and there have been individuals there.” He began taking part in within the heart of Cádiz, however individuals have been in a rush.
“They did not at all times cease,” he tells us, and though he made cash, José Ramón did not do it for that, he did it so they might take heed to him, “to not throw cash at me and run away.” So he as soon as once more determined to vary and traded the town for the ocean. “I went to the seashore with the piano and put candles subsequent to a man who was fishing,” he says. When he wished to appreciate, there have been 100 individuals.
That’s the place they stopped. With the sundown as the one setting, his music sounded completely different and José Ramón felt like a distinct artist. “People began going the place I went,” he tells us… till the pandemic hit. “They locked us all up besides me,” he jokes, “I set it up in order that the times I may go together with my automobile and play.” And his music gave colour to streets painted with unhappiness. “People would go down the road to thank me,” he tells us, “that enriched me lots.”
The wings of José Ramón.NIUS
After that, José Ramón started to compose songs and even created an Internet web page together with his music. He was lacking a reputation and it got here to him, as all the things has come to him on this life, in the course of the road. “A woman in a wheelchair approached me and instructed me that my music made her fly and neglect about her chair,” he tells us, and so the road pianist placed on wings and took flight because the ‘Angel of Music’.
Now these wings take him to probably the most distant locations in Cádiz. He has performed on fields of wheat or sunflowers, in entrance of the ocean or within the ditch of any highway. They are his misplaced paradises, the place he’s adopted by devoted who search to check his wings. “I solely wished to take pleasure in my piano,” says José Ramón, “nevertheless it has gotten out of hand.”
Evening falls someplace within the Bay of Cádiz. If you see candles on the bottom and wings fluttering to the sky, search for an angel as a result of sundown is coming and the solar is about to crash down on a piano.