WHO IS FAC/UNDO?
For those of you who are blessed enough to have been born in Argentina (or any Latin American country), the name Facundo will not be a strange one, and you are also likely to know how to pronounce it. However, I’ve heard every single pronunciation from non-native Spanish speakers except the correct one. I still love my name though, and I didn’t want to deviate too far from it when defining a stage name. l. So I’m calling myself FAC/UNDO here, since you all weren’t going to pronounce it right anyways! Jokes aside, I just like the fact that my name includes the word “UNDO” in it. Let’s see what Miss Oxford has to say about it:
UNDO /ʌnˈduː/ (verb) - cancel or reverse the effects or results of (a previous action or measure).
My music, in its initial form, has a cathartic nature to me and has helped me to reverse the effects on my mind that repressing myself for so long had. I want to use my music to release and provide relief from my repressed emotions, to bring about discussions of topics that are not so easy for me to talk about, but that are easier for me to sing.
What’s the topic then? It took me a long time to come to terms with my identity and my sexuality, and even then I felt like I was just focused on coming out and considering the topic done, instead of deep-diving into all the different stages in life that took me to that point. As if assuming myself as a late joiner to the party was a personal loss or something to be embarrassed about. I didn’t discuss it with my friends much, or with my family. I thought that discussing it with the first (mostly queer people!) would bore them or would make me look small and confused to them, and I thought that the second just would not understand or be open to those discussions. I just wanted them to focus on the person that I am now, but I forgot that the person that I was still has me on a chokehold sometimes and affects the way I act in liminal and subliminal ways. So I decided that I’m going to sing about it.
I’ve already shown many of the songs in my upcoming EP Rainbow Catharsis to close friends and family, and through looking at the lyrics, we’ve had conversations that I never thought I’d have with them. They weren’t easy for me to have, but I felt so good afterwards. Every time I discuss these stages of my life and the feelings that permeated them, the concerns and effects of suppressing them for so long leave my body for a minute, and I believe that not 100% of them make it back in. I can’t imagine how that would feel if I get to share them with more people, specially if anyone who is somewhere along the chapters in their journey listens to these songs and feels addressed and can find some solace in my experience. It would make everything so worth it.
I think the points I would like to get across are sometimes a bit more extensive than what I can get into 3 minutes or so of music, and I have already been told that my lyrics are on the busier side. I’ll take that, and embrace that, at least for Rainbow Catharsis. I just have a lot to say at the moment. So much so that I will also publish blog entries like this one with every new song, and hope that however many or few of you that are listening are also reading and interacting with me along this journey.
What comes after Rainbow Catharsis? I’m not sure for now. But I love singing, writing and composing beyond what my sexuality compels me to say, so I don’t see this as the only project I will start, in fact, I hope it isn’t. I have so many genres that I would love to explore and so many topics, situations and experiences I’d love to revisit musically. So I hope you want to listen along.