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Daviles de Novelda

(1999).

His song

Flamenco y Bachata

has not stopped playing in the National Team's dressing room during the Eurocopa.

Now, the Alicante-born man returns to his origins with

Soniquete

, an EP loaded with flamenco.

QUESTION.

Why did you choose Novelda, your town, for your stage name?

Is it that important to you?

ANSWER.

It has its history.

I really didn't wear it myself, some friends put it on me when I used to sing.

They recorded me with my mobile, they put it on YouTube and put: 'Daviles de Novelda singing'.

From repeating it so much, I have already stayed with it.

Q. Is there a tradition of musicians in your family?

A.

Almost all of my cousins ​​know how to play something and they sing in the church choir that we have, the evangelical church, the gypsy cult.

All my cousins ​​played and sang and I loved it.

He was always in there.

I remember when I was little that they would put Camarón on me and I would put myself in a mirror pretending I was the one singing.

P. Your song

Flamenco y Bachata

is being a success.

How did the idea of ​​mixing both genres come about?

Did you expect to be so successful with her?

R.

I have always really liked Latin music, salsa, bachata ... So I said: I'm going to do something like that.

It was

Flamenco and Bachata

and, look, I'm freaking out.

I had faith on that issue, but I wasn't expecting that much.

The truth is that I was quite surprised and I am very, very happy.

P. Flamenco is very purist and you from the beginning have been fusing it with reggaeton, rap, Latin rhythms ... Have you received criticism for it?

A.

Yes, especially in the beginning, when I started rapping.

I uploaded a video,

I am from the Fernández

, rapping in a car and many gypsies would say to me: "This is not flamenco" or "This, what is it?".

They tend to criticize you at the beginning, but people are realizing that music is evolving and it is what it is.

Nowadays, many flamenco artists are doing reggaeton.

Many gypsies doing reggaeton, rap, and all this urban music and it seems that it is normalizing.

Q. There are you, Nyno Vargas, Omar Montes, RVFV, Moncho Chavea ... Why do you think so many of you have made the leap to this type of music?

R.

Well, in the end it is the influences.

I think it has happened to all these people like me, who since they were little they have listened to this music, they have started to fuse it and they have seen that they have talent.

We are all in the same gender and we have to support each other as brothers and as a family.

Look, you're going to be amused, the first tracksuit I bought was by Omar Montes.

One day he calls me and says: brother, I have a concert, I am Omar.

And me: glory.

I was freaking out, I was a fan of Omar and it was the first time I had talked to him.

He tells me: I'm going to close you a gig, how much do you charge?

And I said: so much.

And he answers: uy, that's very little, I'll close it to you in more.

He closed the concert, gave me the money, and I went and bought a vacilón tracksuit courtesy of Omar Montes.

Q. Didn't you have any tracksuit before?

A.

Yes, but more humble, let's say.

Q. If someone wants to enter your genre, in the group that you have created, does it necessarily have to have gypsy roots?

R.

For me we are all the same.

The one who has talent and I like it can already be a gypsy, a payo, a Colombian or whatever.

If we think about it, Paco de Lucía was a payo and he is the best flamenco guitarist that has ever existed in history.

P. Since when can you say that you live from music?

A.

For about three years, really.

We just started flying.

It started the thing with

My Gyal.

We started breaking YouTube a bit and the concerts came.

I just started to make a living from music as I finished high school.

Q. And how has your life changed since then, your day to day?

R.

Well, let's see, I have my work days to go to the studio, to record, to go to Madrid, concert weekend ... But normally what are my free days of leisure I am playing petanque, I am a addicted to petanque.

Pétanque is highly underrated, let it be known.

Q. So, you go from singing in a disco at 3 in the morning to going to the park to play petanque

R.

In the end that is Daviles in his normal life, it is my free time.

It may seem strange, but just as someone else arrives and starts playing Play, I start playing petanque.

It is the same person, the Daviles who is on stage and the Daviles who is in the park.

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