He is very charismatic and comes from one of the towns settled in the town of General Rodríguez, province of Buenos Aires.
His naturalness has brought out the colors of not a few chroniclers who have tried to do politics with him and his lyrics refer, crudely, to that life that touched him since he began to rhyme his story at the age of 15.
He went from day to night from his little house, where he lives with his mother, to being on the most important television programs, being received by President Alberto Fernández himself and just filling a stadium with 45 thousand people.
L-Gante, at the age of 21, has already lost its name of Elián Ángel Valenzuela, and today is a phenomenon that awakens followers, with its own style born nothing more and nothing less thanks to a small laptop.
He already had more than 176 million views on YouTube of several of his “traps” when in July of last year Vice President Cristina Fernández, during an act, referred to him.
And it is that the young musician managed with a small netbook from the Connect Equality program, promoted under the management of the former president, to create his hits that are replicated at all times through the streets of Argentina and beyond.
With his fusion of trap and cumbia villera (a genre born in the poor neighborhoods of this country), he has managed to reach a massive audience and is a musical phenomenon that is here to stay.
“I am the only artist who never paid for a push, an advertisement, nothing,” he told President Fernández, when he visited the Olivos Residence.
Of course, the criticisms that brand him as advocating drugs, crime are not lacking. He has also been beaten by certain sectors, even when he was declared a distinguished visitor in the Santa Fe city of Rosario.
However, L-Ghent does not lose its way, ignores it and moves on, aware that its phenomenon is also highly responsible, especially for the children who follow in its footsteps.
To them, he dedicated a song to teach them the alphabet, which went viral. So much so that the piece resonated loudly in his voice at the Monumental stadium in the Argentina-Peru match of the South American qualifiers.
A few days ago he filled the Tecnópolis fairgrounds with a free concert that brought tears to his eyes and also earned him attacks and false news, denied by the Minister of Culture himself, Tristán Bauer.
“I had a season where I was very exposed, where I had good and bad reviews. As a young person, I am grateful that I have my feet on the ground”, expressed in recent days the creator of Cumbia 420, who these days adds another success, accompanying the singer Tini Stoessel with the song Bar.
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