Victor Manuelle Salsa Singer Looks Awkward Singing Ballad in TV
Posted on 10. Aug, 2010 by Hector Aviles in Blog
The other night I was flipping TV channels and found Salsa singer Victor Manuelle in a popular Puerto Rico TV show singing a ballad. It was so bad that I felt sorry for this great Salsa singer.
Let me clarify that although Victor Manuelle is a very popular Salsa signer and has just recently ventured into ballads, it was not his singing what made the performance a terrible one. Victor Manuelle is at a stage in his career that resembles where is idol Gilberto Santa Rosa was a few years ago, where he wanted to expand his repertoire into signing ballads. It took Gilberto Santa Rosa a few albums to get his ballad singing to a point where he can offer a decent experience. He had to train the voice to the new style which he was not used to. With his appearance in “El Show de Chucho”, it seems Victor Manuelle wants to expand his career in the same way Gilberto Santa Rosa did.
The performance in Chucho Avellanet’s TV show was so bad because Victor Manuelle didn’t seem to know what to do when he was not singing. He was singing the bolero sitting down, and his singing was actually quite good. But when the song went into instrumental intervals Victor Manuelle just sat there with his head down looking depressed (the song was indeed a sad song) but he just looked down and occasionally peaked up like wanting to see if the camera was still on him. It got to a point where I almost felt sorry for Victor Manuelle, and it was so distracting it was hard to focus on the song.
I believe that artists should think about this sort of things ahead of time. Perhaps he did, and they executed perfectly a really bad plan. I think the camera should have gone to the orchestra when Victor Manuelle was not singing. That would have spared us of seeing poor Victor Manuelle just counting the seconds to his next signing part in the song. The situation would’ve been perfect for a Southwest Airlines commercial, where somebody makes a really stupid mistake and the commercial narrator says “wish you where somewhere else”? I bet Victor Manuelle felt like being far away from there at times.
Victor Manuelle Yo Mismo
I guess bad things happen when artist go on TV. Chucho Avellanet is a veteran of this show, which has been in TV for too many years for me to count. And yet, I can’t explain why things like this still happen. Chucho Avellanet is a bolero and ballad singer, so he could have come up with better idea that keeping the camera constantly on his guest. Victor Manuelle is a great singer, who is starting to get into the boleros and ballads to expand his career. In his latest album “Yo Mismo”, Victor Manuelle sings three ballads, and performs some better than others, but I think he’ll get there. But when going to TV particularly to sing ballads or boleros, he’ll have to be careful on what will happen with the cameras so he doesn’t look like his in a bad TV ad.
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