Someone has given Chicho a flashlight to illuminate a blind spot among verbena music, cumbiatune, metalcore, diabolical autotune, salsa and Latin dance music, MIDI sound, music that plays in markets and waffle stalls, and the innate ability to create melodies that are as good for shaking the cheeks as they are for making a hard pogo. And the fact is that, who until just a few weeks ago was half (the hairy half, specifically) of Esteban & Manuel, is now reborn from the earth in the form of a wild plant, with spikes but impossible to remove from the ground: ORTIGA, a solo project in which Chicho will bring his (sic) “chichas”, his pop melodies, his verbenera passion and that unappealable skill to create a sonorous imaginary in which Rubén Blades, the Panorama Orchestra, Metallica, Bad Bunny, the Miami Sound Machine, Omar Souleyman or the gypsy, the goat and the trumpet coexist.