"Pablo Escobar, a sociopath"
The story behind covering this song goes back to the 80's, as leadsinger El Pastuso tells the following: “As a young boy in 1988, as a reward for all my hard work at school in Holland, I was allowed to travel to Colombia, my country of birth. My uncle and aunt, who lived in Bogota had invited me, and I thought this is surely going to be the best holiday ever! Nonetheless, the current political situation in that year made my parents feel hesitant, and in the end they didn't let me go that summer. So yeah, I blamed Pablo Escobar for that. Sure, the misery in Colombia was not entirely his doing, but in my mind Pablo Escobar was the cause of my broken dreams. If you have to blame someone, blame the murdering sociopath.”
When history meets Netflix
Almost three decades later, El Pastuso came across Escobar's "ghost" once again, but this time on TV. “I devoured the first two seasons of Narcos on Netflix. Brutal, well-made and sort of true to the history and all. But when Menno, our trombonist, came up with the idea in 2019 to cover the introduction theme Tuyo, I objected. The whole romanticizing of Escobar, that somehow got a bit of a revival in Europe with Narcos... just ridiculous. Okay, this song is not so much as an ode to his legacy, but still, it has some reference to his mother, who was a despicable human being. But when I heard Menno's new arrangement of Tuyo, then the thing totally made sense. So we went for it.”
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