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Madrid, 1991. Singer and producer.

The «king of gypsy trap» is the most thoughtful partner of the Omar Montes and company.

His new song,

No me enamoro

, is "a cumbia 'up tempo'" about the evils of love, an eternal theme.

A year and a half ago I interviewed his colleague Omar Montes. He did his gypsy theater who seems silly but then he's smart and he was very funny. But then it gave me a bit of a bad conscience how that turned out. Let's see: Omar is like that, his way of doing interviews is that and he has no other. It is his mechanism of power and evasion. Is it difficult for you to be taken seriously? I am a public figure and I understand that there are people who make me laugh. Can you be a valuable musician by being a clown, a graceful brute? Some singers are very stupid, what can we do? They are successful and it makes me angry if I think about it. Well, to get people to dance you don't have to be very wise. Q.- Can you read a pentagram? I have absolute pitch. My school teacher noticed. He played a Beethoven piece and I went behind, I sat down at the piano,although it was forbidden, and I took out the melody. The teacher came to scold me but listened to me and said: what about this? He went to see my mother, that my mother is like that for studies, straight, straight. She is a 70-year-old gypsy woman who has a higher cycle ... Well, the fact is that my mother gave me a lot of energy and put me to study music but I refused. What a fool I was. Do you miss more foundations? For the music that I make, the truth is that I don't need them much. But sometimes I work with real musicians and it's a drink: they give me a score and I tell them no, I don't know what to do with that. How does the money come in? Squirting, squirting me Come on, seriously. It comes to me, above all, as a producer and composer: I started recording dedicated songs for 20 euros. Now I can make 10,000 euros for a song.And how do you get on with money? Success and fame are not for everyone. That "take out the bills, I am more than you" seems horrible to me ... The satisfaction of my life is my family: my children and my wife. And God, who always walks with me. Imagine that money comes to you when you are 18 years old. I was a boy with a good upbringing but of course it would have been different. I also had my time to splurge. It wasn't a long time, it was a little bit but I had it pending. I bought a Porsche. Today I see it unnecessary. It is a car to throw you the roll, more than anything else. Then I learned. I said to myself, be careful, remember where you come from. Perhaps the years of depression would have been spared. It's a bittersweet feeling when I think about it. I'm partly glad I got through it, and partly I'm always afraid the slump will return. Look,among the gypsies it is thought that man should keep his house. It sounds macho but this is how we have educated ourselves. And I had a boy and I couldn't even buy him milk. He was selling out there, pending the police. It was a disaster and I fell into such a deep depression that I didn't leave the room for seven months. That's the sour thing. The sweet thing is that God gave me the strength to get ahead and defend my family. And why not make melancholy music, then? I make melancholy disguised as party music, because melancholy sells poorly. But look for anyone who knows about music, put on a song of mine and they will tell you that there is melancholy in the notes. It is the secret ingredient in my songs. If I had not gone through depression, I would not do the music that I do. Flamenco is also a melancholy that sometimes disguises itself as a party,Right? Flamenco is the pain of the gypsy who has always been persecuted, who lives without a country. Let's see, my country is Spain and nobody is going to take it away from me; I am neither a face nor am I interested in politics, I'm Spanish. But, as a gypsy, I carry these 'dukelas', with the fatigue of the memory of having been expelled from everywhere.

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