Alejandro Sanz: "I saved myself from trouble because I was the one who played the guitar. You couldn't break a guitarist's arm"

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Sanz

, Alejandro Sanz's 12th album in his 33-year career, is wrapped in what is now called "a story": the return to his origins, to the Moratalaz neighborhood of his childhood, as if Sanz were a Bruce Springsteen character that he returns to New Jersey to try to understand who he is. "It is that the neighborhood boys are alike all over the world."

, a surprising

autobiographical

, is the song that synthesizes that story, the one that we may remember 20 years from now.

Who has ever called you Sanz? Because of my surname, very few people have called me, I would have to think about it. Or yes, because my friends call me Chan, which is a deformation of Sanz, something that Paco de Lucía invented, who called me "Alejandro Chan." But my songs are all signed as

do you like about

? I especially like that I have done it slowly and that I have put all the intention to recover the sensations of when I made the first albums. There is the sound, of course, which is always different, it is one more step in an evolution; the sound is the result of many years testing musicians and recording models. But the important thing is that I go back to the sensation that of the first albums. Explain to me that of the lost sensations. Do you mean a more playful sense of music? I mean the joy of doing things without thinking much about the consequences, if certain people will like it or not, if the company will be happy ... But note that this unconcern is the best way to make everyone happy. Many times you work with anxiety, there is an obsession to enter lists,to always be in the

and

... When you work a little oblivious to all that, it is a beauty and people appreciate it a lot. It is assumed that whether it is a little equal to like it or not is something that is conquered over the years, I did not care almost all the time, except at some very specific moment when I did have that concern of liking it or not. Then it is true that you learn that a secret to being successful is working without anxiety. When I started composing songs here, in Moratalaz, the only thing I thought was that I wanted to write music and maybe make a living from it without great pretense. He did not want to be famous, nor to be a very successful uncle. What does it mean that we are here, in Moratalaz? A return to the origins. This place where we are was a wasteland. There was nothing, it was a parking lot, except once a year, which was a triangle of pop-rock with people from Vallecas,Vicálvaro and San Blas. It started at seven in the afternoon and ended at three in the morning because we were many groups, everyone who signed up could leave. So it was right here where I got on stage for the first time to sing rock songs that some friends had composed. Now there is a wonderful municipal music school, it seems to me a poetic coincidence. What music did Moratalaz listen to when you were 16 years old? I imagine there would be manyIt seems to me a poetic coincidence. What music did Moratalaz listen to when you were 16 years old? I imagine there would be manyIt seems to me a poetic coincidence. What music did Moratalaz listen to when you were 16 years old? I imagine there would be many

... Wow, there were

. The music we listened to was AC / DC, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Motörhead ... But there was also flamenco in the street. That's what it was like: you ended up making songs that had more to do with your parents 'music than with your friends', but there was no confrontation between the two worlds. My father always listened to flamenco. In the car every time we traveled to Cádiz, all the flamenco, flamenco and flamenco travel sounded and, more flamenco. And on the way back the same and I loved it. Those car trips were a huge learning curve for me. It was as if you now put audiobooks on a child. Well, in fact my father sold books, so we read and listened to music at home and a lot of things come from there.

I think the most important song on this album is the

in which he tells his childhood. The summary is that you were a misplaced child who had a bad connection with the world. I didn't imagine that, and neither did I. That is one thing that I see now with the perspective of time, because at that time I saw myself as others saw me, and others saw me as a super sociable boy. Now I know that, deep down, what I was doing was protecting myself and that I continue to do so. I'm still the same: the shyness I am relieved by making a song in which I completely undress. The truth is that I do not know any artist or very few real artists who are not very shy and use art to get along with the world. What role did he play in class? The classic child artist who always wants to be the center of attention? It was the class delegate but I sat in the back and did not attract attention at all.He was not the model student, far from it. Later, in social life ... I was the one who played the guitar and that was like a parapet. This neighborhood is now wonderful, residential, familiar. But then it was the outskirts of Madrid and, well, things happened. The children did not play Play, we were in the street and there were some risks. And I saved myself from all the trouble because I was the one who played the guitar. You couldn't break a guitarist's arm, but there was always someone with the handsome face who wanted to break his lip. Exactly. That was the risk and so I had to find a way to protect myself. When did you leave Moratalaz? It took a long time, really. I don't remember exactly, but at least I lived here the entire first album, all the success of the first album. It was crazy, because at the Mariana Pineda,At the institute across the street, someone posted my phone number on a wall, my parents' home phone. It was crazy because I came from Mexico, busted, I saw myself in the living room of the house, which was a small square, I lay on the sofa, put the answering machine and there were 700 messages. I wanted to die. And then, when the money went well, he was left with a lot of insecurity of being a neighborhood boy. No, not much. Life is changing and you have to change with it. The difficulty is not forcing yourself to change your mind or your values. I had my mother, who educated me in a way and I have done very well with that luggage. He taught me to be polite and sweet and to be empathetic with people and I have never had to change that. The insecurity I had was something else.The first time I encountered success, I realized that people were judging me without knowing me. Some loved me a lot, others hated me a lot. Why does this guy hate me, isn't that a weird thing? But hey, would you have liked to be in a group? Have a partner with whom to protect each other. For the promotion I would have loved it. To make decisions, I think I prefer to go alone. I have enough with the discussions that I have with myself ... Notice how almost all groups end badly. Except for the Rolling Stones, everyone. And if I did oneI think I prefer to go alone. I have enough with the discussions that I have with myself ... Notice how almost all groups end badly. Except for the Rolling Stones, everyone. And if I did oneI think I prefer to go alone. I have enough with the discussions that I have with myself ... Notice how almost all groups end badly. Except for the Rolling Stones, everyone. And if I did one

the next 20 years of his life, would also talk about not fitting in

, to hide and all that stuff? That I

need 20 more years because of all that story in

I didn't realize it until now. It was a part of me that I did not see. Who has listened very carefully to his career, would have been able to intuit something of what he tells? I think so. But only those who would have been very attentive. How many songs do you have in your repertoire? If there are 10 per album, there will be 120, some more. How many are about love? 150. And the conclusion is ...? I know what else you can talk about in a song. From hatred? Hate is one of the edges of love. I also have songs that talk about social issues and one that I wrote to a journalist who said that I had no rhythm or something like that. Do you remember

, Jobim? Well, I did a similar thing called

But that too was a love song, just like protest songs.

Everything is moved by love and other similar emotions: sisters or cousins ​​or stepmothers.

And how many songs are you satisfied with?

And if you start looking for one that is very bad now, I will tell you that of all but that one.

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