Vanesa Martín: "I don't think Pablo Alborán has been in any closet"

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The Malaga singer publishes her new album

, which combines intimacy with the will to live.

Vanesa Martín has been winning battle after battle to establish herself as one of the most important artists in this country.

What does Vanesa Martín say yes to? The title is because it is my seventh job and seven times I would dedicate myself to music again and get on stage every night.

I want to live life as if it were the last minute You also sing on the new album that like birds of prey

is we come out of the dark.

Are we having trouble getting out of it?

Look, I had not associated that song with reality and it is true that it has to do.

We are having a hard time getting out of this, but I am optimistic.

I think the exit is closer than it seems.

The numbers are devastating and the reality is very distressing, but we have to recover, reinvent ourselves and get out of this.

You have assured that we live under layers of artifice that are of no use to us.

What layers have you shed?

I was referring to social media.

In addition to the more superficial values, we have to launch messages that are more humane and with more values ​​for young people.

I have gotten rid of prejudices.

Alfonso Pérez, director of your record company, assures that you have had to break down walls and the reluctance of each other.

Who have been the most reticent?

When I arrived in Madrid and started recording records, it was very pop for singer-songwriters and very singer-songwriter for pop people.

For the Andalusian media, I was from Despeñaperros upwards and for the people of Madrid, I was from the south.

So, I always saw myself in a no man's land.

Until I started to find my comfort zone in that no man's land.

I realized that it was my own way.

It took me more work to open some doors, but once they have been opened, they are still with me today.

Has it cost you to have them respect your personality in the music industry?

No. On the contrary.

They have followed my style 100%.

They have never wanted to change me nor have they told me to go here or there.

I have been quite clear where I am going and when you have a coherent speech, respect is assured.

It's funny because some singers complain that record companies have pressured them to have a sexier image.

To me, never.

They have never even wanted to take my guitar away.

You are a great defender of women's rights.

Are we regressing?

I don't think so, but we still have an important fight to do.

We have to believe it more.

There is a word called sisterhood that drives me crazy.

I love that we are partners.

We don't have to rival men.

We are complementary and life partners.

Talent doesn't have to depend on gender.

For example, in music there are some lyrics in some genres that degrade the female role.

And I criticize that.

You mean reggaeton.

We have achieved a lot so that, suddenly, they now come to position us in a very ugly way.

I don't mess with the style itself, but with the lyrics.

In that sense, I do have my crusade pending.

The singer Vega has denounced that when they hire her for a concert they want to pay her a quarter of that of a man.

That doesn't happen to me.

In fact, I charge more than some men.

You get paid according to the people you put in the concerts.

I adore Vega and she is a great songwriter.

She tells her experience and I am not there to know how she has told it and why.

So have you never had your cache dribbled and you charge more than many men?

Yes.

You have claimed that you hate judges of morality.

Who are they?

I do not know who they are.

I can't stand people who judge without knowing.

I am very respectful to everyone.

I can't stand disrespect or people who think they know everything.

I think there is an insecurity underneath all that.

The other day Mario Vaquerizo shitted on the politically correct and declared that we are living in a dictatorship.

I do say what I want.

Mario is divine and would be pissed off about something.

His nose would swell and he released it as is.

But I do miss politicians like Mujica [former President of Uruguay].

I see him talking and I think: "How wonderful if we had such a politician in Spain!"

Pablo Alboran has confessed that he is homosexual.

Is it harder for women to come out of the closet?

I have always defended free love in all its dimensions, you never know what can happen to you in life.

I hate labels.

You can come and go in many ways.

I don't think Pablo has been in any closet or that it is more difficult for women.

You already wonder the question: are you inside a closet?

People are not in any closet, but living their life freely.

What happens is that people want to know what you had for dinner yesterday, with whom and how.

What have you learned in 'La Voz Kids'?

I have enjoyed and enjoyed with the children.

I have learned to be calm on a television set, because it is very large and imposing a lot.

When they do not go to the next phase, they do not cry because they have not won, but because they want to continue in La Voz with the joke they have with their teammates.

Have you had any friction with the parents of the contestants?

When parents are putting too much pressure on their children, sometimes we have talked to them.

We have told them to let them remain children because this is a contest.

What has been your worst moment on stage?

I made a song for my grandmother while she was alive and, when she died, I went to sing it and I couldn't.

I was horribly embarrassed to cry and I was completely blocked.

I had to remove it from the repertoire for a while until I could sing it again.

Who has made you shed the most tears?

Nostalgia, perhaps.

Having the feeling that I am missing things in my family by being away with my work for so long.

Sometimes I get those little ones and I shed a lot of tears.

Your mother is the head of the cleaning service at a hospital in Malaga.

What does it tell you about what is happening?

Everything is very difficult.

In the hospital there are more and more cases.

If there is something positive, she tells me that it seems that everything is more controlled in the sense that the disease is treated.

The director general of the WHO assured: "Do not politicize the coronavirus unless you want more body bags."

Has the opposite been done in Spain?

It gives me the feeling that in Spain there is more political struggle than social conscience.

My family and friends no longer talk about politics because we all left fighting.

If she were alive, my grandmother would say, "It has no lights. None."

You have shared the stage with Miguel Bosé.

What do you think of his denial drift?

You have to use the masks, the gels and take precautionary measures.

On a cultural level, concerts are not held, which has a great impact on the hospitality industry, on sound technicians ... It seems much more dangerous to travel by subway than to go to a concert.

I appeal to the common sense of politicians.

I understand that nobody expected this pandemic and that, sometimes, they are struck in the dark.

But it's been a while for you to know.

For many, the crisis has also been a parenthesis to rethink their lives.

Total.

In fact, on this album there is a brutal introspection.

Yes, I have stopped to think about what I have done with my life and how much it compensates me.

I have come to the conclusion that I am where I want to be and grateful.

I couldn't be anything else.

I want to continue singing, writing my stories, traveling, soaking up the world, meeting different cultures and people.

I am a very enjoyable aunt in that sense.

Confinement made me think that we are more vulnerable than we think and, at the same time, stronger because we have to reinvent ourselves, despite all the uncertainty and concern.

It did me good because I enjoyed my home because I had never enjoyed my home three months in a row.

I love to cook and I started cooking a lot.

What is your specialty?

The gazpachuelo.

Gazpacho?

No, it is a typical Malaga dish.

You say you're enjoying yourself, but now it seems like it's frowned upon to have fun and enjoy yourself.

The more they prevent me from living, the more I want.

If they tell me that I can't do this, I like to play it more.

I'm like the plug boy, here I go.

I'm going to continue being enjoyable and provoke that desire to people who don't have it.

I am one of those who if I want to get there and you are tired, I will carry you on my back.

But I have to get there.

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