With sunglasses to hide the tears of happiness, Chanel arrived after bursting the Eurovision Song Contest with its third place in this edition.

The Hispanic-Cuban singer is already part of the national Eurovision Olympus with a position that has not been lived since 1984, almost 40 years ago, with her

SloMo.

And she also does it with the naturalness that she has been showing since the first day she won in Benidorm.

It was the Valencian city, with all the controversy surrounding its victory, that elevated an artist who has now shown that she can only be a star.

"We are focused on what is ours and we are winners because we have given everything," Chanel recalled in her first intervention with her tears still about to escape due to the proximity of a victory that she was not.

The war situation in Ukraine ended up frustrating a possibility that would have been possible in another geopolitical context: victory.

But she did not want the Spanish representative to hide behind this to justify the victory of Kalush Orchestra.

"I find it incredible that they have won because we have supported them from minute 1. This morning I woke up to the rhythm of their song", he explained before entering the field of the difficulties he has faced in recent months .

"Honestly, as I have said many times, I do not work for others, I work for myself and for my team. I do not want to know anything about bad energy and if mouths have been shut up, it has been for something natural", the singer has deepened, that after her victory at the Benidorm Fest and her candidacy for Eurovision, she was subjected to a harsh campaign through social networks.

He also wanted to leave a message about this: "Nothing has been written about cowards and we have thrown art forward, we have opted for it, because it cannot be censored."

Let whoever wants understand it, but the background is clear for those who opted to modify the song by considering it sexist.

But if there was something in Chanel, after her performance at the festival, it was emotion.

The one to see her family in the stands, the one of the Spanish spectators about to knock down the Turin Olympic Shovel when she came out on stage.

"This has been a dream and we thank you all", she has affirmed before recounting that her father, Catalan, was in the stands with a Cuban flag in honor of her origin.

In the short time between the media attention and the end of the gala, Chanel was also able to speak with her dance mentor.

"She has seen me cry and the first thing she has told me is that it happened to me. But it was only happiness", she has assured before catching "a little leisure" and the desire to "eat a lot of chocolate and paella" .

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