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Javiera Mena. Santiago de Chile, 1983. Singer. We could explain it as a kind of Mine, modern and Latin American, although for some years, it lives in Madrid. Their latest song, Flashback, is the harbinger of a new album.

If I say that my daughter is bored by my music and that it is also difficult for me to connect with hers, but that sometimes we put her songs and they work very well ... Oh, I am delighted to hear it. Let's say that my audience is between 20 and 40 but lately I was starting to see children at concerts ... I begin to suspect that this is happening, that they are the children of my audience. What music did you listen to at your parents' house? My father I listened to 70's English pop: Bee Gees, Electric Light Orchestra, stuff like that. My mother was in the romantic music of Ana Gabriel, Camilo Sexto ... And my grandfather was the most music lover, the one who had a huge collection of classical music and, at the same time, listened to Luz Casal, Ace of Base ... Did your grandfather listen to Ace of Base? Yes, he wanted to be up to date. And I was with my grandfather, of course. My rebellion was against the music of my parents ... Also, I had older cousins ​​who would listen to My Bloody Valentine when I was 11 years old. Did you go to see them after the confinement? No. But I was with them when the pandemic started. I traveled from Chile to Madrid two days before the border closed. It was an incredible journey, as unreal: people's faces, the feeling of being inShock. How was your relationship with music in the tough months of quarantine? It was the greatest comfort I had. I had days of disconnection with reality, not wanting to do anything. And then I went back to listening to music. The Kraftwerk man died and I started there. Then I heard Morrissey, old things ... I'm always looking for the new, like an obsession, but in the pandemic I looked for old music to take refuge. Did he make music? Yes. I am blessed as music: I have a good microphone at home, a good team ... I could record an entire album at home. But for the first month and a half I did nothing. I was watching the news, I was stunned. Then it was like I woke up, I found myself with creativity and I was able to advance a lot on the new album. Does reading the news usually feed you, give you ideas for writing music? I look for more things in books because I something melancholic. I am like that. It is also a very Chilean thing: you value life but you know that life includes great tragedies. You accept it and you live dancing between one thing and the other. How did you experience the Santiago riots? It made me investigate what my country is like. We all had the need to remove things. And what conclusion did it come from? Chile is a very particular country because of how it was founded, because of how the world perceives it as a developed country ... I believe that if this happened in Santiago and not in Buenos Aires, for example, was like a rebellion against that idea that Chile is a prosperous country. This official propaganda from the rich country made people feel very angry. The same thing happened with the pandemic. They sold us that in Chile we were better prepared than anyone ... How do you imagine in a few years? Like Laurie Anderson. THE LAST QUESTION: What about living in Madrid? It is an idea that I wanted from the first time I came. Then things began to unfold: it turned out that my partner lives in Madrid and that my music was well received here. I like that I can walk alone on the street at night. That for a Latin American woman is very important.

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