Composer and singer, integral part of the sound band of the lives of several generations, icon of romanticism and training of melodies, César “Banana” Pueyrredón This moment of recognition is allowed to savor, perhaps desired, maybe unexpected. Even within a trajectory full of successes, this 2025 has a special taste for the creator of “a whole night with you.”
He knew how to laugh at “message in a bottle” and prepared conscientiously for a supreme challenge. It is encouraged to develop your acting facet in “The call”the musical of Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, in which he shares cast with Juli Castro, Flor Jazmín Peña, Leticia Siciliani and Mariano Saborido. In full fervent and creative enthusiasm, a pause is allowed to receive the news call in the midst of this bullshit.
News: The public usually endorses artists, but in “the call” you are God, literally. How was it interpreting it?
César “Banana” Pueyrredón: Very good! (laughs) It is a nice challenge to make a musical, I have sometimes got on stage, but to act from César Pueyrredón with some special participation. This is something different, I make a God who connects with the new generations through music and I liked that, singing Whitney Houston songs in English was also tempting. It is seen that they needed an adult artist, a voice with character to contrast with the protagonists who are girls in a nun camp where a lot of troubles will happen, the truth that I found very fun to make God in that context. Mariano Saborido, who embodies Mother Superior director of the camp, is extraordinary and the three girls, Juli Castro, Leticia Siciliani and Flor Jasmine Peña sing and dance magnificently. It is a work to have a good time, to think, laugh and also to get along a lot.
News: How was the preparation to interpret Whitney Houston songs?
Pueyrredón: It is like singing a cover, but one thing is to sing when your friends ask you for a topic and another is to do it in the framework of all plot development where you have other gestures, a more ampulous imprint, because I am not on the keyboard with my band behind. Our director, Juanse Rausch, made me notice much, you have to gesture otherwise when you do a work, I said: “You are incredible, every time you mark me how to stop or open my arms more, it is a theater class for me because I never did this.” I am going to confess something, I always dreamed of singing with Whitney Houston, if you ask me what the dream of my life would have been telling you to be in the Madison Square Garden, I in the piano and she singing a song of mine. I always said that if there is a person who could be God, that is Whitney.
News: I understand that you are a fan of musicals and when you go to New York you see many. Could we say that it is in your sauce?
Pueyrredón: Yes, it’s true. Once I had been offered to make “Come from Away”, a very successful musical, I thanked them, but I considered that I needed a lot of essay and dedication, there were many functions and I would not be able to meet, I live from the shows that I do every weekend. But “the call” was perfect because there is only a function on Tuesdays, so I am finally giving me the pleasure of acting in a musical. I am not a bug of the genre, I enjoy it as a spectator, I once wrote a child musical that was unfinished and there is also a work that I did not write, but it is with my songs, I think we will once carry it forward. I never saw myself as a musical actor, but how fun this universe is!
News: You were the youngest of eight brothers, was music a tool to be noticed inside such a large family?
Pueyrredón: Yes. It was unintentionally, it was something natural, at one time a piano appeared at home for my brother Juan who already left us, I was ten years old more than me and I stayed seeing his classes. It was so small that I played the piano standing because if I sat I did not reach the pedals, any of my sisters or my old woman will have seen that scene and asked the teacher to give me classes too. At three months I was already composing songs for my bank partner, also others at the request for my friends’ girlfriends (smiles) at ten or eleven years with the emergence of the Beatles in my life the music became fundamental.
News: Recently premiered a theme with Adrián Barilari, does the composer’s facet also follow Full?
Pueyrredón: Yes, of course, we are always composing with my friend Bartolucci. The Barto is Friend of Adrián, we were pergeño a beautiful ballad and said: “We could make Barilari sing.” We listened to her in Adrián’s voice and was extraordinary, she is an out -of -series singer, with a more neighborhood expressiveness than me, that I am more melancholic and romantic. The idea that we sing it together was from Adrián and the version was very good. You will be nominated for the Grammys next year, imagine! I tell news readers to look for the song “How to do to forget”, they will die …
News: As a composer, did you change the music business or not so much?
Pueyrredón: I keep composing as always, but you no longer have a record behind to put promotion, to support, they fell apart. Now they deal with other things, such as platforms, they get more with the life of artists, that is the actuality of the industry. I have no contract with any stamp that forces me to get an album per year, I compose new songs, but I upload them to my networks, I touch them a lot in the shows so that the public knows them, with my partner Bartolucci and their own seal One Song Records we decided to do a artisanal dissemination work and we are going very well.
News: Every day young artists arise, are you optimistic about the music scene in Argentina?
Pueyrredón: Of course, by Argentine musicians and their creativity, look at what our rock has always been and now urban music. If you ask me what I do not like so much, I tell you that this Caribbean reggaeton, not the original of Luis Fonsi or the CNco that is great, but that more berreton of “Submit the Polleita, show me the ass“ (laughs) that is not for me, I come from the tradition of the good lyrics of rock, from Litto Nebbia, Miguel Cantilo, the flake spine. They marked us a lot, I am convinced that rock always manages to follow. If we talk about new singers, some songs like more than others, but I celebrate that if you go to Miami, for example, and see the ranking of the main 10, nine are Argentine. It is incredible what girls are doing, they have a lot of personality, they care about production, they have a spectacular image, they do stadiums, I am happy about that. Of the new ones I like Wos and thunder, I think that Bizarrap is the brain of all these boys, if it were not for him who orders them and organizes them would be a chaos (laughs). We were lucky that in Argentina there is a guy like Byza.
News: In recent years there were films about Freddie Mercury, about Bob Dylan, he is now preparing an envelope Bruce Springsteen. If your biopic was done, who would be the protagonist?
Pueyrredón: Very good that! (He laughs) I have thought about it more than once with my daughter and we always laugh looking for candidates. For example, I have seen extraordinary imitations of mine from Campi on television, I was next to me, I copied every perfect gesture and sings quite well. Do you know who I like a lot? Francesc Orella, the Catalan actor who made the series “Merlí”, seems to me to have several similar physical characteristics in terms of certain gestures … but he would have to come to live in Buenos Aires to understand the Buenos Aires spirit. I have three or four types that sing and touch the piano equal to me, I always tell you that the day you disappear they will be able to do taxes forever.
