Remembering ... Romeo Void

Romeo void

They were times of post-punk in North America, and given the strange combination of a powerful female voice -remarkable quality of that voluminous-looking indigenous girl, quite remote from that consumed by industry- with the air new wave that often characterized the band's music and with the frequent and essential presence of rare but well-accomplished saxophone melodies (which sounds like jazz in some bars), the quintet was out of context - so to speak - both in image and in sound and perhaps for being so original, innocent and non-commercial, today they are vaguely remembered by a majority accustomed to consuming the exact opposite.

The headline of a local magazine would be the one that suggested the name of this group: it inferred a “shortage of romance" in the city of San Francisco in those days and based on that idea they decided to call themselves Romeo void, staying active between 1979 y 1985.

There were three factors that ended her promising career: The usual zeal of the other members towards the attention the singer received; the lack of support from a record company for an interpreter who, let's put it that way, was not the typical anorexic with painted hair; and having achieved a certain popularity and success -at the point of good records- just when the broadcasting of music videos on television was beginning to gain strength (and the era of listening to music with our eyes was beginning…).

Romeo Void - Never say never
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=24U3qTG90RU


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