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The name of Tanxugueiras appeared on the Eurovision scene as soon as it became known that this year the

Benidorm Fest

would be held to elect the Spanish representative in Eurovision.

We are talking about the month of July and a survey for the contest portal already pointed them out as the group that the Spanish wanted to present.

"We weren't going to be the ones to say that it wasn't going to be like that," explains Sabela Maneiro, who with her indelible Galician accent acts as spokesperson for the group, which is made up of her sister

Olaia Maneiro

and

Aida Tarrío

, while they finish putting on makeup for the first semifinal of the Benidorm Fest that takes place tonight (La 1, 10:40 p.m.).

Nervous? It is impossible to get nervous when we are all the time from one place to another and every five minutes there is something new.

The truth is that this woman from Compostela does not seem to be, she calmly answers each question as if she had been in her career for decades.

But the reality is that

in 2017 they went viral due to the rehearsal before a concert in Glasgow

and today it is difficult to measure the dimension of a folkloric group, as they define themselves, that was born from the Galician dance classes that their parents attended. They targeted the Maneiro sisters and

the Tarrío family's

pandereteira tradition with four years.

From there, and without giving up their native language, Galician, they have risen to the top of the stakes with

Terra

to represent Spain in Eurovision

It doesn't give you much time to think about what's to come either. Has singing in Galician ended up becoming more of a positive than a negative for your candidacy? We believe that certain things that should already be normalized must be normalized, such as language.

Creating these debates is always necessary trying to respect all valid opinions, we believe that languages ​​add up, they don't subtract at any time, I can't get into my head who thinks that.

You are almost the representation of Galicia in the world now. We are the vehicle on stage for traditional music because in Galicia things have been doing very well for a long time.

We are some more who have come this far, but many artists from Galicia are wonderful.

media, institutions with linguistic policies that defend diverse languages.

The moment everyone realizes that this is the sum, then mentalities will change. In Spain have we despised our traditional culture and our folklore? Despise is not the word because it is not the people's fault that it does not arrive.

No one despises music or language for no reason, it doesn't come simply because visibility is not given, we should not blame the people.

In fact, with us they are responding very well and they would do it with another Spanish language.

It's not people's fault for this, they don't shut themselves down, but if they don't listen to it they won't be able to understand it. Is it more a question of institutions, politics and the media? I'm neither of those things

everyone does the job as best they can, but if this type of root music and folklore were given more visibility, it would work much better.

Our music works very well abroad because they are not prejudiced against languages ​​that are not their own.

It is easier to export abroad than to the Spanish State itself because they do not have those prejudices with the language.

But now here we are Tanxugueiras to give visibility and help this grow. You claim that you are here for those Galician women who did not know how to read or write but wrote poetry It is that we do not realize the power that the music of the people has, it is our identity and, therefore, the pride towards those women who did not know how to read or write and ended up being poets and musicians is immense.

Today many of us can be musicians and we have preserved so much thanks to them and to all those people who did their field work, put their car and their money and went door to door to achieve this.

Without any kind of benefit, just looking through ours. Did they teach you at home? Yes, but with age you create an identity that is imprinted in your DNA and now we are aware of how beautiful it is.

We went through many stages and we were not aware of what we had here in Galicia.

When you grow up, you are already interested in your people and your culture.

Today we can say that we are very proud of this culture

To explain this point, Sabela turns to her hometown: Santiago de Compostela: "Normally we always value the outside more than the inside.

I'm from Santiago and I see the cathedral every day, I think it's beautiful and that's it. But one comes outside and sits in the Plaza del Obradoiro to look at it for hours

. I think this is something we all do without realizing it"

Do you agree with those who say that you are going to make amends for the mistake that was made with Serrat? We do not intend to make amends for any mistake.

Serrat had things very clear, in very different and more difficult times, and we surely would have done the same as him and we would not have gone to Eurovision without singing in Galician.

Putting that on the table in those times was not a mistake and now we have the possibility of claiming other languages, other ways of making music and we are going to do it. Have you stopped to look back at these last few months and the success you have lived? We don't have time to do it, it's hard to sit down and look forward to see what has happened to us these monthsWell, the Babel River with C. Tangana or Residente is ahead Our team has been doing this great job for a long time,

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