Biography
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Born In
La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sara Belazaras, better known as Faraonika, is an Argentinian singer. They started calling her "Faraonika" because of one of her first songs of the same name, but she clarifies that originally her artistic name was "Bianca". Her first songs were uploaded on Soundcloud, and some of them were later posted on YouTube.
At the age of five, she went to dance classes, listened to a lot of music from her music-loving parents (“they played The Carpenters, Björk, a lot of jazz, Billy Idol, Bowie, The Beatles, Massive Attack, The Sugarcubes”) and also played with Cubase — the music production program — with her bassist father (“but who does something else”). One day the TV came home, they turned on MTV and she could never get Britney out of her head. It blew her brain, for the better. Finally she was able to see several musicians whose faces she didn’t know and everything began to enter her visually.
She studied piano and dance, while composing “on the air.” During high school, she says that she had “a lobotomy” with respect to the idea of being an artist: “My brain completely liquefied, I will distance myself from my real desires, from my being, in order to survive, for money, and I had to reconnect with that. It happens to a lot of people, but deep down you know what you want to do.” The idea of dying of hunger was the ghost: “I come from a family of frustrated artists, in a way, in a thousand quotes, because my grandmother played the piano and couldn’t continue and my mother wanted to be a singer, but they didn’t let her. I’m not going to flash the same, that’s enough.”
She began to compose with her cell phone and the creative musical memory was not long in appearing. In those days of leaving adolescence she realized that she needed a computer, for which she saved money with her job as a waitress. She looked for Logic classes and managed to find 0-600, the producer of Neo Pistea and other figures of the urban genre. In addition, she took writing classes with the singer and composer Violeta Castillo, who recommended that she not look for inspiration only in her own world. “We are a magnet for chaos, imagine if all the time we need something exciting to happen to us, you will end up fighting with everyone, you cannot have a stable partner, it is a downer. Her advice was good for me because I started looking for inspiration in life, it connected me with life,” she recalls.
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