Updated Thursday, February 22, 2024-16:54
OT 2023 From streaming to filling WiZink: the successful Operación Triunfo experiment
From favorite to winner Naiara sweeps the final of 'Operación Triunfo 2023' with almost half of the votes
Barely a full day has passed since
Naiara
became the new winner of
Operación Triunfo
and we met with her at a place in the Malasaña
neighborhood of Madrid
where she is also going to participate in a podcast.
She has previously been on a radio program and has a busy schedule in the afternoon, but she handles it calmly.
He arrives with a
great look
that highlights his tattoos - among them, an angel with a machine gun pointing towards Cupid, a heart made of thorns on his legs or the word
art
on his chest -, his characteristic black hair and a smile.
Despite being the center of attention and arriving surrounded by an entire entourage, both from the production company
Gestmusic (Banijay Iberia)
and
Prime Video
, the platform on which
Operación Triunfo
was broadcast , she is calm.
Naiara Moreno
,
26 years old
, transmits security, is polite, attentive and direct in her responses.
She knows what she wants and she knows that this is her her her moment.
What was the first thing you did when you picked up your phone? Join the group of my friends and family and say: 'Hello, darlings, I'm back.' What were you most looking forward to knowing about the world after confinement? I was dying to know what was really happening because in the end there at the Academy we were not aware.
When we went out to record signings we started saying: 'Holy shit, what's going on here?
There are many people.
So I wanted to go out and see what this was really like. And what have you seen? I have met people who understand me, who love me, and I feel very grateful for that. Now do you need a few days to settle down? At the moment, mentally I am very good.
I feel like floating and I am very calm.
Being with my mother also relaxes me a lot.
I am assimilating everything very slowly and giving value to what is happening to me, but from a very
chill
point . You say that you didn't see yourself as a winner...I didn't say: 'I'm going to win', although there was a possibility, as with everyone, clear.
But in my mind it was not clear.
I felt very loved by the Terrassa public, but I didn't feel that it was going to happen to me.
Also, the fact that we have all been favorites at some point is cool because it is very exciting.
"What is success? Anything that makes you feel full. For me it is success to have slept with my mother today"
When did you first feel that you wanted to be a singer? I started singing before I started talking.
And professionally I started making a living from music at 17.
There I became independent. How was it? I wasn't a very good student, to be honest.
I wanted to do something that I liked, and that was singing.
My mother and I started to think about how to do it, we looked for a very small orchestra and that's where I started.
I did a little, like 15 gigs, then I moved on to another one and ended up where I've been for eight years.
For me it has been one of the most beautiful stages of my life.
I feel like he has given me everything.
If today I have been able to get here it is thanks to having gone through the orchestra.
My boss is like my father, I adore him, he took away my stage fright and taught me everything. What did you learn in the orchestra? There I learned to start gaining confidence in myself and in everything he did.
It's been like an academy, too.
It was like a first contact with people, feeling what it's like to be on stage, knowing how to speak to the public.
For me, one of the most difficult things about this profession is not singing.
Singing for me is easy.
The difficult thing is to convey it to people. If you had to return to the orchestra, would you feel like a failure? No, not at all.
In fact, I thought about it many times: if the OT
thing
doesn't go well, I would be very happy going back to where I was.
I was very happy there and I would continue to be. And what was it like becoming independent so young? I started working and soon became independent.
I wanted to live alone and feel what it was like to be an independent girl.
I feel like I have been very mature since I was very little.
Life sometimes makes you mature before your time.
So I enjoyed it;
I am very lonely.
I also love being with my friends, but when I'm alone I really enjoy it. Living with so many people on the program must have been hard for someone like that. Yes, I had a hard time at first.
I came to the question: do I want to be here?
I spent so much time living alone, without noise, without people... and suddenly 16 people in the same room, it was a sudden shock.
In the end I adapt to everything, but I did think: 'It's going to be difficult for me'. Have you had to correct vices in your singing that you brought from the orchestra? Mamen [Márquez, vocal
coach
of
Operación Triunfo
] is a magician of the voice.
She has taught me to sing well.
She screamed a lot, she sang with a lot of vocal pressure and that caused you to destroy your vocal cords.
I have learned to regulate my voice.
And then I have felt that I have been giving each song more and more of my personality.
When you are in an orchestra you have to adapt to all the styles: I have sung jotas, opera, Mexican... and that's where I was more lost.
I have been finding more of my essence. And what is that essence? In the end it is that you listen to the song and it sounds like me.
My voice color, my high notes... What would be, for you, the performances that have defined your contest?
Take me or leave me
vocally,
Despechá
was all about dancing, singing and throwing myself at people and
Sobreviviré,
for me, was the most complex song. Your performance at Gala 0, on the other hand, is not one of the best.
Do you see it like that? It wasn't, no.
It was a very tense moment.
We were going to find out that two of us wouldn't get in and I was a little nervous. What are you most looking forward to doing right now? I would love to take my car and go for a walk with my friends, go to the park for a walk with my dog, petting my cat... every day.
I'm also looking forward to sleeping with my friends;
I live alone, but almost every night someone comes to sleep at my house.
I am very close to my lifelong friends.
"I want to grab a chorizo sandwich and go with my friends to the neighborhood park all night"
After so much coexistence, do you want more?
[Laughs] With them, yes, I want to tell them everything.
And I'm also looking forward to seeing my sisters and my little brother, who is five years old. What do you like to do with your friends? We really like what we call "Toledan nights": having a sandwich, French omelet, chorizo, or whatever. whatever, and go to the neighborhood park where there are some picnic areas, and spend the whole night there talking and laughing.
A plan as simple as that is very necessary for me now. Are you afraid that with fame you won't be able to do that kind of thing? I imagine that somewhere, I will be able to.
In my neighborhood there are many parks that not even
El Pipas
goes to .
I hope I can.
I don't have fear as such, I know that it is part of this process and I will have to adapt. And do you think it will always be like this? That is in the air, I don't know.
It's not in my hand.
Work and fight to continue training and improving, that's what I tell you is going to happen.
That fame can end in the long term?
Well, I'll continue with some singing, for sure.
I don't want to do anything else.
"I feel powerful because there is no one who can cut my wings. My power is self-confidence"
What does success mean to you from now on? Success is very relative.
Before entering
OT
I already felt successful because of everything I have achieved in my life through work, effort and dedication.
What is success?
Well, anything that makes you feel full or special.
For me it is a success to have slept with my mother today.
And on a musical level, that people, whether few or many, identify with my music, like what I do, understand me and live this process with me, be it one, a thousand or a million people.
With that I will have felt successful. How do you plan the future?
Are you in a hurry? I will soon release my first
single
.
I'm looking forward.
And I'm going to work hard.
I want to learn to produce, to compose better, to play the piano... I'm not going to give myself time.
I'm going to do it;
What comes out and is born to me, I will do it, and what doesn't, I won't.
I don't feel like I have to run, I can wait. What's that
single like
? It's a song that is absolutely me.
He talks about me, about my cockiness, about my car... It defines me at the level of
My Power
, what I want to convey to people.
And I want people who don't feel that way to be able to feel it with me too.
With my power.
Define that power I have always felt strong, everything has not mattered to me, I have done whatever I wanted on a personal level without thinking about what they will say.
I feel powerful because there is no one who can clip my wings.
I give myself wings and I have never needed anyone for anything.
My power is self-confidence.
We talk many times about self-esteem, self-love... I feel like I have all of that.
And I'm not talking about physique, but about what I am inside and what I've been taught at home, which is "fuck, darling."
Always be ready
to fight, but without giving up enjoyment. How do you handle the
choni
label that they have given you? I love it.
The
choni
of Spain.
I feel like a stylish
choni
. What has been the hardest thing about
OT
?The challenge is knowing how to control your mind.
It's also physical, we were exhausted from classes and getting up early, but above all it's mental and in that sense I think I've managed to handle it well.
I have had moments of saying: 'I can't take it anymore', and of starting to cry. Have you cried a lot at the Academy? Not much either.
But because if I'm bad I don't like to feed it, but rather encourage myself.
When it happened to me, I wrapped myself in Lucas and the people I loved in there to get out of that hole.
If you feel that you are bad and you focus on that, you are going to be bad.
So I was trying to distract myself, listen to music, think about why he was there... You mentioned Lucas, who some viewers have believed you had an affair with.
Are you surprised? I'm not surprised.
Life is like this: you see two people who get along and you think they like each other.
There is a huge connection between Lucas and me.
He has been my fundamental pillar, I have a brother.
It is difficult for me to open up to people and in Lucas I have found a person with whom I can be myself 100%.
He was the one who understood me the most.
And, damn, there is also friendship between men and women. Where would you like to be in a year? Dedicating myself 100% to my project and having people come to my concerts and take away good memories.
It's something I have to start building.
I want you to take away many sensations, play with the visual, my image, the sounds... I don't just want to do one thing: I want you to come to my concert to cry, dance, laugh... and surprise!