Soleá Morente: "My fears are taking away and I'm becoming more and more cantaora"

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From a very young age, she felt, lived and grew like a true flamenco woman.

(Madrid, 1985), the middle daughter of singer

, who died in 2010, says that flamenco and music have always flooded her home and have been a way of life.

Her mother, bailaora

, while she was preparing a pot, taught them a dance step, and her father took her, along with her brothers -the cantaores

and

, to rehearsals, to concerts, to recordings and even took them on stage at party ends.

And then at home, rare the day that there wasn't an artist friend of the family around, hanging out.

For this reason, when Soleá Morente started in the world of music almost ten years ago, she was already flamenco, "because I've carried it inside since I was little," but not so much a cantaora.

"I didn't dare to sing flamenco lyrics out of respect and

because in this society everyone has an

opinion,

" he explains to EL MUNDO.

But with the passage of time, "experience and maturity, my fears are taking away and

". She does it almost "without wanting to, but the fans are so great that inevitably I am becoming more of a cantaora". And this is what he shows in his concerts, when he sings por seguiriyas, malagueñas or

that are not on his records.

The cantaora is "gaining ground" and all of this is reflected in her

,

, in which she pays tribute to the "love story" of her parents. But, despite what it might seem, the album

far

. This art is present "all the time" in the work he has just presented, but as a "way of feeling, of placing the voice in some songs" and also because his sister Estrella sings in it. It is just a topic, "but it fills everything with beauty," she says excitedly.

The album, composed and written entirely by Soleá Morente, apart from the flamenco echoes, has influences from psychedelia,

and experimental music, as she herself summarizes. "I try to put myself in my mother's mind to write the songs, in what the process of the person who stays on earth loving and how she copes with the absence" by Enrique Morente, who died in 2010 after being operated on for

esophagus. Despite the mourning and death, Soleá sends a message of

because the love story of her parents is like that.

Enrique y Aurora

is Soleá's fourth album and the first of all that she composes and writes.

To do so, he made use of his training in

.

«I read a lot and when it comes to writing songs it is something that is closely related.

If I had not been a philologist, I would not be a composer ».

What's not on the new album is the latest trend.

«I am not a

of music.

I pay attention to what happens, but the latest fashion

me or influence me when it comes to creating.

And would Enrique like the album?

"I hope so.

Surely he is hearing us ».

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