Health Amaia Romero, winner of OT, positive for coronavirus
Friends? Amaia Romero is expelled from a WhatsApp group from 'OT 2017': "I was going to send an audio, but I saw that they eliminated me"
At the beginning of November,
Amaia Romero
tested positive for coronavirus and thus communicated it to her fans through her social networks, with several sad emojis and a red heart.
"I'm fine, but I won't be able to do the Donosti concerts, which had already been postponed due to another positive one," he explained on Twitter.
And beyond the disease -which to this day he will have overcome, fortunately-, the informal statement came to summarize what the life of the music union has been in 2020: a long succession of
disappointments, annoyances, cancellations, creative paralysis
and the almost total impossibility of working, at least in front of the audience in live performances.
In September of last year, the one who was the brand new
winner
of
Operación Triunfo
2018 had released his debut album,
Pero no pasa nada
, an album that, contrary to what is popular among most popular karaoke contestants, he was preparing
carefully and unhurriedly,
looking for an artistic intention rather than an opportunity. fast shopping.
In fact, Amaia has been
an atypical contestant,
so much so that it does not even seem that she is
21 years old - she will
turn one more on January 3.
She has always said that the idol of her childhood was
Marisol
- and not, for example, Beyoncé or Katy Perry - which makes her an
adorable old man,
and when she landed on
social networks, she was more bound
by circumstances than by pleasure in Exposing herself, she did it with the adorable clumsiness of an 80-year-old grandmother, something her fans received with
tenderness and empathy,
because after all it corresponded to the image that the young woman from Pamplona had transmitted on television:
blind passion for singing, and naivety in everything else.
Do not forget that he entered the contest while still a minor, and having been a junior participant, at 12 years old, in other talents of the same string.
Singing was not for Amaia a whim of adolescence, but
a passion cultivated since childhood
.
And that is why, those who know her well, emphasize that she is still, in many respects, a girl.
He has had to
mature at full speed,
and the most notable direct consequence in his life after winning
Operación Triunfo
was that he had to abandon his family and friends in Pamplona to
move to Barcelona
, where he currently resides and has his circle of collaborators, with the who has prepared the concerts prior to the launch of
Pero no pasa nada,
the recording of the songs and even the
filming of the documentary
about his figure that premiered this past spring on Amazon Prime,
A Return to the Sun,
and which helped him stay in the candlestick when the whole country was enjoying the medieval experience of confinement.
One of the most mature decisions that Amaia made - surely well advised by her closest circle - was
not wanting to record an album in a hurry,
and under the direction of Universal's predatory executives, but to prepare it calmly and tailor it to her needs. style, and not from the urgent demands of the show's fans.
That is, Amaia looked
more like a sentimental pop singer,
and not like an urban diva -which was the remote-controlled path, for example, that her rival in OT,
Aitana- took
-, and she wanted to find her new audience among the
fans of indie.
The producers of the Argentine rock group He Killed a Motorized Police, which are Los Planetas del Cono Sur, Raül Fernàndez (Refree) or the indie-folk author Núria Graham participated in the creation of the album;
for the live shows, he counted on The Free Fall Band and the advice of Miqui Puig, and the premiere of his new songs was within the framework of
the Primavera Sound festival.
The label associated with the festival, El Segell, was in charge of co-publishing and promoting the album.
Although Amaia's popularity is absolute due to the impact that winning
Operación Triunfo had
in the most commented and followed edition of the contest's history,
her professional path has
consciously
deviated
from the undemanding demands of the majority and occasional public.
It does not look like it will fill stadiums,
but it will feel full of satisfaction inside, which is what is important after all.
His new song,
El
Encuentro
,
has been recorded with Alizzz - the producer of brittle electronic rhythms who, throughout a meteoric career that began in his small studio in Castelldefels, has put people like Diplo or C. Tangana-, and in it there is a lovely
aroma of sentimental synth-pop.
Meanwhile, he has found his way into wide-ranging pop products such as the
Paquita Salas
series
-where he sang a jota- or
Veneno
, thanks to the
great relationship he maintains with Los Javis,
his teachers at the OT Academy.
In fact, that good musical direction is what has helped Amaia's current affairs revolve practically around her career, and not so much about unsatisfactory collateral events such as
her participation in Eurovision
-which does not appear in the Amazon documentary-,
anecdotes
without importance, since he has sometimes
forgotten to shave
certain parts of his body when leaving the house, or his
brief courtships,
first with Alfred García, and later with Diego Ibáñez, singer of the indie-rock group Carolina Durante.
Ultimately,
it brings
satisfaction to see that for now
fame has not devoured her,
that she is leading her career and life where she wants and little by little, and that she will not become (let's touch wood) the new Chenoa.
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