Those who make the leap: from musical reality shows to live shows

For a long time now, on television channels around the world, competition competitions for music artists They have the largest audiences, with thousands of viewers seeking to discover in those battles who could become their idols in the immediate future, and nurture the next steps in their lives with incredible melodies.

That musical artistic cocktail that mixes entertainment, life stories, desires, songs of yesteryear and challenges and intrigues nourish the great industry of reality. Artists usually go after a dream, an award, the recognition and prestige they dream of, but when a reality show manages to make love shine, the participants achieve another type of empathy with the public.

It was the case of David Bibal and Chenoawhich in 2001 emerged from the first Spanish edition of “Operación Triunfo” (TVE): she won, he came second, and both formed a couple that lasted until 2005. From there, Bisbal had one of the most successful careers for the winners of a singing contest: their first album, Corazón Latino, came out on June 3, 2001, and since then it has continued to grow.

And it is also the case Nacho & Nikisingers from San Martín (western area of ​​the province of Buenos Aires), who competed independently for two of the most famous reality shows in the country, and ended up joining as a couple in real life but also in music, with a duo that today It appears in discos and private parties.

nacho and niki

Ignacio “Nacho” Pereira is a criminal lawyer, but music has always seduced him more than the courts. Nayla Nicole Spano, known as Niki, is a versatile singer who moves comfortably through rock, gypsy jazz, blues or cumbia. He appeared in the pageant “The Argentine Voice“which Marley led on the Telefe screen. She was not selected in that reality show, but was selected by her direct rival, the one hosted by Marcelo Tinelli”sing with me now“, broadcast by channel 13.

A violinist friend introduced them some time later, and came the romance, the couple, the coexistence and then the duo, which shines with their songs: their songbook will add a reversion of a PopRock classic fused with Cumbia that is listed as one of the songs of next summer.

by RN

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