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Zahara
said tonight in
Toledo
that he has felt "a lot of fear" in recent weeks and that he has received and experienced a "beastly hatred" after the controversy with a poster that was withdrawn for another image as it was considered offensive, but has also left clear that in those moments he has always remembered why he made the album
Puta
.
"Hopefully those people who were so deeply indignant because they thought he was calling the virgin a whore would understand that this photo is a complaint. A complaint about how we are required to be perfect, because of the pressure we feel to be mothers, because of how it is expected of we who are saints and for each and every one of the times we have been called a whore. "
These words were said, very excited, by
Zahara
on stage, in front of 1,000 people who have attended her concert within the
Toledo Alive
cycle
and taking in her hands an image of the poster for her album
Puta
.
The poster for tonight's concert, in which
Zahara
appears dressed as a virgin, holding a child in her arms and with a band in which you can read
Puta
, the name of her latest album, was withdrawn on November 11. August and replaced by another image, something that generated great controversy because Vox had requested it and because many singers and artists showed their support for
Zahara
.
The concert has started quietly, but the audience has been encouraged as the songs progressed and in the middle of the concert
Zahara
spoke to thank "everything you are giving me" and also to explain how she has felt in these weeks.
"I have wanted to cry in many concerts"
"At the same time that I have been living and feeling this force thanks to you," she pointed out, "I have been living and receiving a beastly hatred that, I have to admit, has also made me feel very insecure, very small many times. I've been very scared many times. "
María Zahara
(Úbeda, 1983) has admitted that not every day she had the energy she needed: "I have had many concerts in which I have been blocked, with a lot of anxiety; I have wanted to cry in many concerts and in many others I have cried; and there are times when I just wanted to hide under a duvet and I was nobody. "
And there have also been days, she continued, when she was "petrified" before going on stage and felt "real panic" to face her songs and everything she was experiencing.
But in those moments she remembered a friend, who had to run away, with her son in her arms, because her husband had just hit her, "and I take all that anger and I take all that anger and I go up on this stage and I remember why I made this record , I remember why it is called 'Puta' and I remember why I made that cover and I remember why I wear the brand, I remember my whole story and why it is still necessary to continue telling ", he stressed.
He lamented, in this sense, that "when some people used my artistic expressions to attract attention and to attack me, I thought that the more than 150 interviews I did when this album came out had been of no use".
Standing ovation
Zahara
has been very well supported by the public at her concert in
Toledo
, who have applauded standing for several minutes when she has spoken.
Shortly after midnight, two hours after the start of the concert,
Zahara
left the stage with all the audience standing applauding.
"Completely grateful for what you are giving me. Thank you really," said the singer.
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