During the development of the 2023 Major League Baseball (MLB) season, a Mexican girl was invited by the Kansas City Royals to sing the United States national anthem before the series game against the St. Louis Cardinals in May. The stage was Kauffman Stadium. His performance was recognized by both fans and baseball fans in general. She is Sofía Montaño, a Mexican artist and heir to a great inheritance.
Your name may not be as well known or identifiable to a portion of the public. Furthermore, they will surely wonder who he is. And this is where it’s important to come to terms with your character and find your way into music and theater. He does this with a firm decision to use his maternal surname, a gesture that testifies to his determination not to embark on a career favored in particular by the reputation of his paternal line his grandfather, the legendary actor Ignacio López Tarso.
“My family makes me very proud, it makes me very proud to say whose granddaughter I am. The truth is that he was the best grandfather, but also the best mentor, the best teacher. I was very lucky because I spoke to him about theater and art. It wasn’t easy to keep up with him, my grandfather was a child prodigy, the wisest person I ever knew.he comments in an interview for TVyNovelas.
Daughter of Juan Ignacio Aranda, also an actor and son of Mr. López Tarso, Sofía had in her grandfather one of the men who entrusted her to enter the world of singing and acting. The trust shown was so great that they shared the stages together. In 2016, for example, they took part in the Life and Death Festival in XCARET, an ecotourism park in Quintana Roo. There they presented the production “Of Graves, Alive and Dead,” a number in which they sang, danced and performed revolutionary corridos, accompanied by musicians and actors. On this occasion, the first actor was happy to present his granddaughter. In return, those present stood to applaud them.
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It was an example of observing the talent that Sofía wanted to continue to show with singing and acting, especially at the theater level. There is nothing better to unite both artistic expressions than musical theater, a genre that welcomed them with open arms to engage in works such as: Peter Pan, Fiddler on the Roof, Ghost, Lies And vaseline.
But not everything went smoothly. As he developed, he encountered constant rejection from Cirque du Soleil to join their ranks. something that was a dream for her. His goal was to be one of the company’s many talents. To counteract this refusal to give him the chance to show himself, he insisted on opening the door.
“I came here purely out of audition, out of stubbornness, because it took many years I have sent material for at least 4 or 5 years with no response. I ordered and ordered and nothing, and I said: ‘I have to keep going because this is the only way, there is no other way to get here but by auditioning until it is achieved,'” he told TVyNovelas.
It’s worth persevering. At least that’s what his story makes clear. He persisted and persisted until they listened to him, either because he was tiring them with his stubbornness or because they noticed an artistic streak in him. This answer, however minimal, was the gateway to the realization of a desire that he had had since childhood.
“From being crazy about sending videos to them inviting me to audition for the first time and me logging into their database, which was the first step, and a year and a half later they called me in Lucia. It was a beautiful story that I would like to tell because it came from a dream. “I was nine years old when I saw the first show, my grandfather took me with him,” he says in an interview.
Things in life, Ignacio López Tarso introduced her to what is now her dream come true. And that’s it Sofía Montaño is the Mexican artist who triumphs in the performance with Cirque du Soleil Court after I shined the light into it Lucia. He is doing it in a special year because his grandfather died in March. But as he instilled it, life also enriches the lives of others who find in artists a reason to have a good time.
And he gave those who attended the Corteo show at CDMX from October 4th to 15th a good time. The same feeling struck Kansas City Royals fans when he sang the American national anthem. Even though 2023 was a sad year for his cause due to his grandfather’s departure, Sofía Montaño is building her career and has him as her biggest fan and both accompany each other in his artistic development.