• Solidarity Luz Casal's gesture to help isolated people: she calls them one by one on the phone

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I made myself, by the circumstances, a woman before I had to be one for real. So, I'm recovering now." Luz Casal (63)

has looked back to search through her memories,

as one of her best-known songs says, and tell her story in the documentary

In many tempos

, which is premiered by TVE within its series

Essentials

on the 26th and that it was screened yesterday in a special screening at the Cineteca de Matadero Madrid.

Directed by Alicia de la Cruz and Chema de la Torre,

Luz Casal, in many tempos

has the participation of admirers-friends such as the actor Fernando Tejero, the writer Virginie Despentes or the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo;

musicians like Depedro, Rosendo or Étienne Daho;

collaborators of the singer such as Pacto Trinidad (her producer) and Pablo Sycet (her head lyricist);

and his partner, music journalist Paco Pérez Bryan.

From its origins in Boimorto (Coruña), through the emigration of developmentalism in Asturias, the arrival in Madrid in the 80s, its emergence as a rocker in the post-Movida, its reconversion at the hands of Pedro Almodóvar, its success in France and her breast cancer,

Luz goes through familiar aspects of her life,

but also other unpublished ones.

Thus, it brings to light, never better said, "the non-present memory, the 'non-memory', that which you have hidden under 400 locks, which I know a lot about", as he confesses in the documentary.

"My parents hardly ever got along," he

says at the beginning of it. "Although I have to say that to my mother, in recent years and saying goodbye at the Asturias airport, I asked her the 'million dollar' question: 'But mom, why were you with my father for so many years?' And she said to me 'you know daughter

. because your father what I've wanted a

lot'

Then it never did any kind of question and that helped me to realize, to understand somehow that relationship that was so hard. "

Why was this so? "From the age of eight, in my house there were two men and my mother. That, on the other hand, for my father, Máximo was his best friend. In other words, a mess," the singer of

A Piece of Heaven

tries to unravel

.

"I had a lot of hard, negative feelings against my parents. Against all three."

The passage of time helped, he says at another point in the film. "I think I loved all three of them with the same intensity, only that each one had to be shown affection in a certain way," he points out below. "But I am very marked by all three. Now that I don't have them, I think I have been very lucky, despite having spent years feeling that the family I had was a disgrace."

As Anne Hidalgo points out,

"Luz also coincided with democracy in Spain."

And, with it, "the incredible freedom and creativity that existed in all that time of the Movida, where women appeared there. But we already know that, although there has been this freedom and creativity, the model remained with its very macho bases. and that they did not allow women so much. "

What the mayor of Paris likes very much about Luz is her strength.

"But a force, also, calm," he

points out.

"The challenges that she throws herself are challenges of a woman who likes to put herself, not in danger, but to look for something else. Although what she looks for is in her. And what she looks for and finds she gives to us and they always are incredible adventures. "

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"I am extremely fortunate to be able to express a number of emotions through music," says Casal about his profession.

"If I didn't have that exit, that vehicle, it would probably be a woman with serious difficulties."

Among them, the disease.

The biologist Carlos López Otín is in charge of presenting one of the most complicated aspects of this biography: the double breast cancer that he suffered a decade and a half ago.

"The message for Luz was: We must avoid untimely death

. Because her disease came hereditarily, from her family. It is one of the few cases of hereditary cancer," says the biologist.

"Today, most likely, Luz should no longer have gone through what happened."

Luz wanted to transform that process into an album,

Toxic Life

(2007). "I remember from all that recording overcoming physical limits," he sentenced. "Especially, the voice. To be able, with the will, to achieve what I had proposed, which was not to get discouraged, not to fall apart. You don't know what greater satisfaction to see what had entered with the intention of recording my voice in a A certain song, feeling that I had no strength, that I had to sit down because sitting down you have more strength to sing,

and finish and see that what I had sung was good

. That was a triumph for me, a success ".

All the first concerts after the two cancer episodes he handled "pretty well" on a personal level.

"But of course, it was overwhelming how I felt about what I was getting from the public.

I felt like I was the most loved person in the world, like I was someone very, very, very special. It was a good reward."

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