Xavier Herrero |
Madrid (EFE) She says she has collected more flowers than stones and of which she feels “very proud”.
“Above all if I compare it with other artists who started at the same time, it makes me feel very lucky, because I have been able to collaborate with the best,” adds the Cádiz-born interpreter during an interview for EFE, just a few hours after it is released. the sale of the work that takes over from the compilation “Seguir navegado” (Seguir navegado) (2021) and the album “Bajo tus alas” (2018).
Among the small boulders that he has been able to come across on his pilgrimage, he mentions the difficulties in positioning himself in music by not fitting into any label. “I was neither chicha nor limoná, because I am not flamenco for the purest flamenco, but for the people of pop and rock it was because of my voice”, she argues without losing her smile.
“In the end I think I make music and that’s it. Evidently I come from a land that is Cádiz, with its accent, and I have sucked flamenco since I was a girl, which is the music that satisfies me the most, in addition to the fact that I think it is like a very grateful open window that allows me to combine it with everything if it is It’s good,” he reflects.
More modern and electronic arrangements on his new album
On first listening to “Camino” (Sony Music) it becomes clear that the production of his partner and eternal squire, Julio Jiménez Borja, alias Chaboli, has taken another step forward, not only because of the exuberance of the brass winds on some songs that , as it has done in the past, brings the two shores of the Atlantic closer together, but because of the commitment to other types of more modern and electronic arrangements.
“There is an important change in the level of sound, many hours have been put into this record, although the heat of a few palms later is what gives you the start and the ole”, says María Rosa García (San Fernando, 1977), aka Nina Pastori.
From the first single, “Osú qué niña”, it is also clear that this ten-song journey has a lot to do with autobiography, starting with that song dedicated to his eldest daughter Pastora, and with another called “Regoleta” that goes to the baby, Maria
“In all my records there are my things. All artists do. Shakira’s telling of her move has happened all her life, only some of them are unknown,” the artist points out, giving her father-in-law, Juan Antonio Jiménez Muñoz, better known as El Jero and as “the one in the middle of The ticks”.
He dedicates one of the songs to him, in which he takes some emblematic verses of his production: “I was born to win and not to be defeated.”
“It is true that out of nothing he raised the foundations of a castle. He had a very hard childhood, because his father died early and his mother left, he didn’t have a chance to go to school, but look at the songs he made and then how he knew how to manage that, becoming a star and not losing his mind. head coming from the subsoil, which is very complicated”, he assesses.
More intimate notes on the life of Niña Pastori appear in “La Tierra”, in which she addresses the premature death of a family member and in which she urges not to waste time. “Because death is there and, although we think it won’t happen to us, suddenly life turns you inside out like a sock,” she warns.
A rumba in Barcelona in “Bon Dia”
He still has time to dedicate a rumba to Barcelona in “Bon Dia”. “It is a city that I love and that has given me a lot from the beginning of my career, because they are very warm and knowledgeable about flamenco and they have respected me a lot”, he highlights.
In “Caminante”, finally, she urges us to go “with our hearts as our flag” to make this world better, convinced that you can learn from everything, especially from something negative such as the pandemic and that allowed her to dedicate a time to her family. time that before slipped through his fingers due to his facet as an artist and his tours.
“Because this profession is not compatible with the family. They sell things to us in a different way and you come home from work exhausted, but they have some needs, especially when they are very young”, he analyzes after saying that more than once he hit a “kilometre punch from La Conchinchina” to get to time to the function of one of his daughters.
Now that these “are older”, he once again wants to “take the motorcycle and speed it up” before a tour that will start on May 27 at the Palacio de Congresos in Valencia, with other stops such as the Los Califas bullring de Córdoba on July 1, on July 6 in the Noches del Botánico cycle in Madrid or on July 15 at the Concert Music Festival in Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz).