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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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