Omar Montes: "If I can remove my mother from scrubbing stairs, why can't I have a $ 360,000 Rolex?"

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He has the neighborhood in his blood, and after walking his gypsy 'flow' through the Telecinco sets, he tried his luck in music.

Today he is the most listened to artist in Spain, he is finishing a documentary and a memoir, and despite his fortune he continues to live in 50m2 in Pan Bendito, his 'headquarters' in Madrid.

Wikipedia, which is the bible of the 21st century, just told me that you earn 160,000 euros a month. Like a PSG footballer, but without playing ... Your latest whim? A $ 360,000 Rolex Daytona Raimbow. If I can remove my mother from scrubbing stairs, why can't I have a Rolex? And I buy it because I have earned it and I have sweated it. I propose to shut up some mouths. Give it. How much money have you spent buying your neighbors from Blessed Bread during the pandemic? Thousands of euros. But thousands, many thousands. I am a very believer, and whenever I take money and invest it in doing good, it comes back multiplied from behind. Is it a spiritual mantra? From spiritual, nothing. I spend 5,000 euros in filling a car for people who are having a bad time and the next day I get 15,000 on the other hand. Before I was the one who went house to house,because with the Covid there were no concerts. But now I have 15 colleagues from the neighborhood hired. So that they are not on the street doing bad things that I do not like, I give them a salary and they take care of making the distribution. I have assembled the infrastructure very well. You leave $ 360,000 in a Rolex but you live in your 50-meter flat for your whole life. What the hell is wrong with you, I love it. I'm going with my grandmother to do the shopping. Then I go downstairs with my grandfather for breakfast and he orders his vermouth and I ask for my orange juice. I go to the gym and to the movies, I am with my son, I see my people ... That is why the mothers-in-law like me so much, the gurus will say that your success is your music. On the other hand, you believe that your success is not having fallen off the cliff of drugs. Yes, because since I was a child I had very clear goals. I didn't know if I was going to be a singer, an actor or an astronaut,But it had to be something. Omar, those are not very clear goals ... Other friends wanted to work in their father's bar. What I was not going to do was enter that vicious circle of going to the park to smoke joints, home to eat, at night to steal and end up in jail when they caught you. I wanted to run away from that shit. And boy did you run away. If you are even going to make the leap to literature, like the greats, yes. In October I publish the memoir

. So that people know the Omar Israel Montes who does not appear on Instagram, the one who heard gunshots as a child and is now at the top. If we buy the book, do you promise us a descent into hell? Exactly. There was bullying, there was racism, there were misdeeds, there were my little pretty ways of making a living ... But I managed to get out. That makes for a documentary. There is going to be a documentary.

, a four-part series for Amazon Prime that premieres in November.What do you give the bigwigs to make them love you so much? It's ugly that I say it, but I'm

of the music. Those from Amazon have chosen me among all the artists in Spain to record their first series worldwide, because it will be broadcast in 170 countries. It's not a whim of mine. It's that the high places give me their blessing. And if one day they stop blessing you? Well, let them go with David Bisbal. Do you get along with other singers? Bisbal, since we are ... With everyone. I love Bisbal, Aitana, Ariana Grande, Travis Scott ... Because I, in addition to being an artist, am a fan. But there is one thing very clear. Last year I was number one in listening, and I was singing it with my friends from the neighborhood. The rest make collaborations with Daddy Yankee, with Katy Perry ... And me, with whom? With Moncho, with my neighbor Salcedo, with Elías. That is the merit. Being number one without number one. And today the stars don't tempt you? Now everyone wants to sing with me, of course.But my formula should not change. If tomorrow I collaborate with Travis Scott, maybe my business will screw up. Did boxing, like so many kids without a compass, save your life? All my friends played football because they believed that one day they could live off kicking, like Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo; But I was fat and bad so I saw that that was bad

. I got tired of them always putting me as a goalkeeper, of taking all the clubs and they were making my life bitter. I joined a gym in Vallecas with my brother Dani, I started to lose weight, I learned to defend myself ... and boxing took me off that wheel. Boxing and Camarón de la Isla. When in summer we would go to the town, Navarredonda de Gredos, my grandfather would put the Camarón cassette in the car until it was finished and turned it over, and so on until we arrived. I was

Camarón's ears. And you started to get some money out of cante after finding a computer in the trash. What would become of us without recycling. I was with my friend Moncho. He took it home and started making models for gypsies. If one married, he would make a song for 150 euros. Until it reached my ears that he was making money with that and I said: 'Hey, you, Moncho, we both found the computer.' They call you the

because of a kind of supernatural power that, according to you, you have had since you were a child. . How are you gypsies ... When I was a baby, the first word I said was 'crab'. Not dad, not mom, not garlic. Crab An

, but you did not see the pandemic coming. A few days before the first case of Covid in Wuhan, I left my house with sunglasses and a feather and I had a revelation about a very strong flu that was going to infect us all. And I recorded a video right there, in the middle of the street. I swear to you because I drop dead right now. Look it up on Google: 'Omar Montes and pandemic'. I am not lying. Do you dare, here and now, to make a prediction of your own? Let me think. Yes. In a couple of years we will establish contact with beings from other planets. But a strong contact, talking with them: 'where do you live, I live on Mars, what do you eat, what music do you like' ... There is no interview with Omar Montes without a world exclusive with his little bit of magical realism. And from here, the reader decides. Shoot. Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon,wants me to be one of the crew on your next space trip. Wrote me a

on Instagram, because he had

my song

on his

, he proposed it to me and I accepted.

Now they are doing the tests to make sure that I can withstand the G-forces on takeoff and, so far, I have overcome them satisfactorily.

I will not deny that I am afraid, because I have seen the movie

and wormholes impose a lot on me.

But I want to be the second Spaniard to go into space after Pedro Duque, so let's go up

.

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