Brünne Romeo, the 'covered' star of Benidorm Fest... who doesn't even participate in the contest

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has received dozens of messages with a similar approach in recent weeks: "I don't know why they don't talk about you, I love your song to go to

Eurovision

"

However, the musical project of this young emerging artist has not been part of the Benidorm Fest at any time.

It has not even been submitted to the pre-selection, and it does not have any intention, for the moment, of going to Eurovision.

His has been something else.

Who is

?

The question flies over the conversations of journalists in the streets of Benidorm.

Everyone, sooner or later, has come across the spiteful love affair pop punk of songs like

or

.

Whoever subscribes these lines has come to find which of these themes would be part of the semifinals.

Hint: none.

One of the most frequent searches these days on

is

.

and simply curious are looking for a list that brings together all the aspiring themes to represent Spain in

, to arrive at the galas with everything well studied.

The first list that appears has them all, but when listening to it, something catches your eye: every two or three songs by the semifinalists, one by

appears .

"It was the idea of ​​my partner, who is a curator of

lists, " says the artist over the phone, "one of the ones he did about

began to like it, to go viral and he decided to take advantage of it to promote my music by interspersing songs" .

And it worked.

His profile on the platform now has almost 167,000 monthly listeners, an outrage for someone who does not reach 4,000 followers on Instagram.

"We've gone up 20,000, or a little more," he says, "people go crazy writing to me."

"It's a way to promote ourselves," he says, "I'm an emerging artist, without a record label, without any financial help, so when the possibility was raised, we went there. And it's working great for us."

The artistic project

is not even a year old yet.

It was born in March of last year by the hand of this 22-year-old young man from Extremadura, who came to make a living in the capital between cinema and modeling.

His lyrics are heartbreaking, but always between two men: "I grew up without those referents, the protagonists of the songs were always a man and a woman," he says.

He acknowledges that his songs are autobiographical and announces a six-song EP for May.

And the

?

"It is a festival that imposes a lot, there are those who have presented themselves for visibility and have ended up in

and that is a huge responsibility, it requires a lot of tables," she acknowledges, although she was about to send an application.

Perhaps next year Brünne Romeo will be part of the

lists in her own right.

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