With Rigoberta Bandini for Benidorm: "My song is all the women of Spain, united by a message of hope"

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Rigoberta Bandini has some religious experience, from the procession of La Macarena as it passes through Seville's Plaza de la Esperanza.

Undoubtedly she is the Virgin and the workers of TVE, the costaleros.

Only the combs and mantillas are missing because the ladies are all here.

"You're the best, I just want you to go to

so you can represent us all," Manuela, 78, lets out as she passes.

The 200 meters that separate the

press conference from her van are a continuation of praise, photos and autographs that she does not shy away from in a hurry. But this is a procession with maroon sweatpants, a baggy black sweatshirt and a cap with the word bitch in multicolored letters. Who cares about aesthetics when you've turned Spain upside down? "Thank you for singing to us," shouts a lady in the middle of the square.

When

. "I'm dead, but I'm so happy," she says without losing her smile. "Jo, how cool, just for these things it's worth it. I'm very excited because my song is these ladies. Although I start from my mother, I go to this woman who approaches me from her truth and her gratitude", explains who It has already become the great star of the Benidorm Fest and the favorite to go to Eurovision.

Paula Ribó (Barcelona, ​​1990) -or Rigoberta Bandini or Rigo, as you prefer- yesterday burst the foundations of our country with her

. She did so when the camera settled on her, dressed in pristine white, arms linked with her cousin and chorus girl, Belén Barenys, and her two dancers to dance. A pop image of feminine power that even made us forget the globe in the shape of a boob. "On stage, I was about to cry when they caught me.

I don't want any more anger, just light, strength, togetherness and love".

She finds all this in her song, in her band -made up of her partner Esteban Navarro and her cousins ​​Belén and Juan Barenys- and in her improvised altar with candles and tarot cards. "Look, this is the letter that your partner gave me in the last interview," he shows on the screen of his mobile. Vane, you too can go to Eurovision.

Are you aware that you have already created an anthem? This is very rewarding, there is nothing better in life. Because the music that I admire are songs by Mocedades or Abba, which are hymns, and I already have mine. You've already gone from grandmothers to granddaughters. It's very cool and I really don't even know how it happens. When I compose, I just try to express myself in the simplest and most direct way, but I don't know how anything is going to be received. And that people of different styles, from the right or from the left, admit it shows that music unites. Is it a transversal song? That is my intention, but there will be extreme sectors that will not be able to empathize with the song, but I am only interested in what one. It's cool to remind us from time to time so that there is not only hate, division and noise.

And, if in that song, sprinkled with epic references to Delacroix, motherhood and the fear that boobs generate,

. "I think that the very specific messages and images are the ones that sink in. Suddenly, everyone thinks of the broth in the fridge and empathizes." But in that pot, at the bottom, there is a lot. "That my mother has broth in the fridge has many things that you can read or simply that that is love."

"I was also afraid of this because I did not want to stigmatize the working mother, a long-suffering woman, who cooks and raises you, but it is true. Although we are in a time of change, this continues to exist and it does not have to be bad either. But therein lies the responsibility in a very sensitive issue so as not to offend anyone without realizing it.

. This is a message from love towards women, mothers and the feminine force eliminating all the noise".

A seamless explanation, so there are no doubts.

"What a sheet metal I have hit" she jokes.

Like when asked about the famous giant tit.

Is the

religion already founded? We are working on founding it, I am already Rigoteta Mamadini. When one goes up on that stage, do the cameras forget? The performance is presented as a concert. When I go with the meat monkey and say that I don't know why our boobs are so scary, I don't care. At that moment I force myself that this is a concert and I'm just going to enjoy it. Given their reaction, the audience also enjoyed it. I felt very lucky, I just thought why me and wanted to say thank you all the time. Plus there are a lot of powerful women here. In fact, if I don't win, I want a woman to go to Eurovision. Does coming out as a favorite add pressure? It helped me at the time, but with so much

in the weeks before, I just wanted to go home and go to bed.

Of course, when you go on stage and feel so much support, it gives you a

.

And, at that moment, the van parks in the hotel entrance.

As Paula leaves, she runs towards the entrance towards a small figure that staggers from side to side.

It's Nico, her son.

"

", she whispers between countless kisses.

Ow mom.

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