María Peláe, the Lola Flores of reggaeton: "I'm not going to sell you the bike. I'm not a cantaora, I'm flamenco"

For a long decade,

had

from stage to stage trying to "

the key", and a year ago the key took the form of four women from her land interpreting themselves and she proclaiming the change of sidewalk of

between Latin rhythms

. .. and his mother.

"I need four women like my grandmother was, the ones who hold their bellies to laugh and scream; and if they smoke, the better."

And there they were five to record "a film

Hollywood" with his parchís and glasses of

wine.

One fell into what the song said in the middle of filming: "That the mother too ...?! Oy, oy ...".

The 30 came to the Malaga in full confinement, without taste or smell and with eight kilos less.

All my life waiting for that moment and the big party deflated: "I threw confetti in my face."

That philosophy, that of seeing

, has guided the career of this artist who calls herself flamenco, yes, but never a cantaora.

"Out of respect."

A

viral

of Lola Flores' classic tongue twister

at Residente and

gave him the key: "That's when we started to see that something was happening, when I changed the way I produced the songs. I was doing the same thing, only that now the songs had another

".

Of course, without losing the essence: "

for me is a tango from Cádiz. Totally".

Is it mandatory to resort to reggaeton rhythms to make yourself known? Before, everyone had to do to get into radio.

Today the urban rhythms have eaten a lot of ground and the ears have already been made.

In other words, it is not that I am forced to put a 'tum, pa tum pa tum', but directly the ears are made.

As I say, a proclamation of Despeñaperros up is more complicated to understand;

if on top of that I do it in a rhythm that you are not used to, I make it even more complicated for you.

If that's how I get to more places, bless it. And what do the flamenco purists think? I don't remember which cantaor I listened to: purists are necessary even though sometimes you don't have to listen to them.

And it's true, they are necessary for them to tell you listen to me, this is a bulería, this is a soleá, what you are doing is something else.

It will be based on a bulería, it will be based on a tanguillo, but what you are doing will have to be called something else.

Tanguillón, bulerión, or whatever, they

call you

, no less ... And I take off my hat.

If something of what I do is half like all the honor in the world, but with a lot of respect.

But Lola Flores will always be modern.

María Peláe JAVIER BARBANCHOMUNDO

When María Peláe arrived in Madrid, she believed that a happy birthday was going through rumba: "I've come from listening to everything for flamenco."

And he settles the issue: "I'm not going to sell you the bike. The first thing I say is that

because of the respect I have for cantaores. I'm flamenco, like my grandmother and my mother. dedicate yourself to art to be an artist ".

Mother dancer, great-grandmother cantaora, María had little escape.

He was going to see a doctor when he got on stage for the first time by chance, and he told himself that this rush was not compatible with shutting himself up to study.

So she exchanged the stethoscope for social work, first, and then anthropology, and it is not difficult to see tints of a

, of "salon anthropologist", she will say: a married woman who confesses that she wants another, a mother goes in search of his daughter to the corner bar to which only girls go (oy, oy), a vindication of herself with an answer

, "a landmark

ti".

He says that his head is squared and it was not until five years ago that he found the courage to bet everything on music: "

: you have to study, find a supposedly more upright job ... That is the value given to art ".

In the curriculum of this singer-songwriter there is a lot of comb and many moles, but also a behind-the-scenes job that has twice been about to represent Spain in

.

His are

, finalist in 2018 in the voice of Aitana, and

from the hand of the also

Miki and Natalia.

What if they propose to go to Eurovision yourself?

I find it very funny because for me it is like the extreme of folklore and I love folklore.

I go out there with my bata de cola and my sweet wine ... but I think it's a double-edged sword.

There are artists who know how wonderful they are, no matter what.

There are still many people to meet me and in my case a shit could be more bad than good.

I abstain for the moment.

María Peláe JAVIER BARBANCHOMUNDO

We said that Maria entered her thirties without smell and taste.

On stage there are three: DJ, drums and she on guitar, "the immune team".

They all caught "the bug" when the

was not yet

.

And now a seated "bandit" audience awaits them.

But Malaga also sees the good side of that: "Now people are allowed to sing other kinds of things that before they didn't stop to listen because they were chatting with the one next door, asking for a drink, because they were at a concert. but like in a disco ".

All my life alone with a guitar and now that I had made the leap to the great dance show, people feel like it.

The life have this things.

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."

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