Franco Leoz turns Porteña identity into a pop universe

“You can’t be more palermitan, Franco,” the conductor Darío Barassi told him after listening to his songs. The phrase, which might have remained a sympathetic anecdote, ended up baptizing the project with the name that defines it. Franco Leoz left the radio studio with a certainty: that identity, half a character and half a mirror, enclosed the universe he was building without knowing it. Palermitano ceased to be just an aesthetic direction and …