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Photo By: MIrandolina (Dec 2007) - Mexico City

Photo By: MIrandolina (Dec 2007) - Mexico City

Photo By: MIrandolina (Dec 2007) - Mexico City

Photo By: MIrandolina (Dec 2007) - Mexico City

Françoiz Coballa (also know as El Niño Coballa) is a Mexican singer and guitar player born in Zapopan, Jalisco. His music is strongly influenced by American Roots Music. Known for his obbessive behaviour, he began his carrer in the middle of 2005 playing guitar and harmonica and then spitting out words from his mind into improvised songs.
He states: "Planning is not for me; I don't like to see forward too much neither have I fallen in love with my own life; I like to see my life in short periods of time comprised by a few hours".

Away from the music scene in his own country, his voice began being noticed and compared to the harsh grunt of Tom Waits and the lo-fi sound of his songs often got him described as an old soul; even though he's not even 20 years old.
Influenced by blues in particular, he represents a different edge in Mexican music, a dark and slow experience. Robert Johnson, Tom Waits and John Fahey have also been influences on the road he has walked. And his odd sense of humor (he claims that he died at the end of 2006, speaks in the third person and always dresses the same) define him as a very complicated, naïve and excentric person: "I'm obbesed with my self; it's not about living everyday like it's the last... that is passional.. I don't care about passion; I'm obbssesed with nature".
His work is feed by all of this; and the output; far from being close to any modern musical standard; attempts to be honest and describe; as a very good storyteller, the life (and everything that that word implies) of a odd soul.

Photo By: MIrandolina (Dec 2007) - Mexico City