Xavier Herrero |
Madrid (EFE).- The Argentine Tini Stoessel begins an ambitious tour of Spain this Saturday, the first in this country after parting ways 7 years ago with the television character of “Violetta” that made her a global star and embarking on a new stage in lonely with recent moments of great personal growth.
“I led a life of little stability: something as simple as sleeping in the same bed for a month neither happened to me nor does it happen to me, but because of the pandemic and spending almost a year in the same place I had no choice but to look in the mirror and find myself. I touched many corners of myself that I did not know and, for this, beyond the sadness of the moment, I am grateful. If it weren’t for that, on a personal level I would not be where I am today, ”he explained to EFE.
She tells it about the energy of “Cupido”, her fourth and last studio album, released at the beginning of the year, and which will play an important role in the repertoire of the “tour” that she will walk “excited and very nervous” from tonight at the Coliseum in A Coruña, which will be followed by events such as the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona tomorrow, with all the tickets sold.
For some time now, Martina Stoessel (Buenos Aires, 1997) consolidated the pseudonym of Tini as a brand sufficient to move around the world, almost as long as it has been since, with some rare exception, she says, she was stopped on the street as a the star of the Disney Channel series that made her a popular face.
“That was such an important character for so many people that change was not easy,” concedes who admits he is “so unconscious” that, when the last film in the saga was released, in 2016, the next step was not even questioned. “I just started writing songs and the day I heard the first one on the radio, ‘I love you more’, I cried with my father,” he recalls.
He points out that this stage as a youth star gave him, above all, “a lot of work”: “Knowing what it is to be on stage and solving a technical problem, concentrating and dancing 22 choreographies while singing at the same time, controlling the cameras…”.
“That and as happens to any artist who marked the lives of so many adolescents or children, I know that many people love my music today in a special way because they saw me grow from the age of 13,” he adds.
For this reason, he insists: “I never fought with Violetta. There was a media process, because there was always the question of the character, but she gave me many incredible things and those that were not so incredible made me grow as a person. That’s why I’ll always love him.”
With a television producer and director father and a training that prepared her in many different interpretive facets since she was a child, it seemed difficult for Tini not to dream of another destination than to succeed as an artist.
“We were not the typical children who went to the programs that my father did. But in my memory since I was little I do remember singing and dancing for hours in front of the mirror to the point that they asked me to be quiet. Mine was not instilled, I was born with that love for music and for art, ”she claims.
From her initial tastes for the great pop divas, from Whitney Houston to Beyonce, in each of her albums a greater approach to the Latin urban environment has been noticed. Just a few of the collaborations of “Cupido” serve as an example: Tiago PZK, María Becerra, Manuel Turizo, Anitta, Becky G…
“I always liked reggaeton. There is no more turning. I love how dancing makes me feel and if I choose a party, I choose one that plays that kind of music. What happens is that, when I get into the studio, since I have my superpop references like Britney Spears, I mix it up a lot by singing a ‘dembow’ and it’s a combination of everything”, she argues about her musical evolution.
In recent years, other close collaborators have been Spanish, such as Lola Índigo (“The school girl”) or Alejandro Sanz (“A kiss in Madrid”). “It marked me a lot when making music, I love him with all my heart and we are great friends,” he says of the artist from Madrid, perhaps one of the “surprise” invitations with which he hopes to “excite a lot” the public on this tour.
After Barcelona, in the coming weeks it will be possible to enjoy his live show at the Córdoba bullring on June 28 and, already in July, at the Concert Music Fest in Cádiz on the 1st, the Marenostrum in Fuengirola on the 2nd, in Valencia on the 6th, at the Granca Live Fest in Gran Canaria on the 8th, at the Murcia bullring on the 13th and at the Roquetas de Mar (Almería) bullring on the 14th.
In September he will return to end his Spanish journey at the Marinera de Aljarafe equestrian center (Seville) on the 14th and, as a climax, also with sold-out tickets, the Wizink Center in Madrid on the 17th.