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Madrid (EFE).- Gloria Trevi disembarks in Spain in what will be the first major solo tour of this figure celebrated and at the same time persecuted by the shadow of the alleged network of sexual exploitation that she organized during the decade of the two thousand with her ex-husband Santiago Andrade, a controversy revived very recently.
Although the judge determined that there was insufficient evidence for the accusation, the artist, who currently declares herself another victim of the abuse of her partner, was in prison from 2000 to 2004 awaiting trial. For these same facts, in December 2023 a new lawsuit for corruption of minors was filed against him in the US.
“The image people have of me publicly is like that of Medusa, that’s why ‘Medusa’ was born, because it’s a badly told story,” he says, referring to the title of his latest single, before telling EFE in this regard: “I’m not a monster, I’m his creation. I am the reaction to many things that have been done to me and, if my shine bothers you, put on glasses, because if you don’t, you will become a rock.
Trevi excited about his tour of Spain
Trevi (Monterrey, 1968), does not believe that this could influence her image or the capacity of her concerts and she has been “excited” about the four live performances that will take her to Spain this week: “I am counting the days”, assures the artist before a journey that she describes as “pending subject”.
“A long time ago, when I came and performed for the first time in Spain, I dreamed of touring here,” he explains before attributing his prolonged absence from this country to the volume of work and distance: “But I’m already putting down roots here and I even bought an apartment,” he reports.
Their tour began with a first concert at Les Nits in Barcelona, which will be followed by another date on July 27 at the Marenostrum festival in Fuengirola (Málaga). On July 28, the singer will stop at the Universal Music Festival in Madrid and will conclude her Spanish performances on July 29 in Priego de Córdoba.
“The rehearsals, the changing rooms, the production… Everything was as if I were going on a tour of a hundred places”, she anticipates excitedly while revealing that the repertoire will be “a super special ‘reloader’”. “I want to make them my songs that have been heard the most in Spain and some that are special to me,” she anticipates.
First solo performances of the singer
These recitals will be the singer’s first solo performances after singing in August last year together with Mónica Naranjo at the Starlite festival in Marbella as part of the joint “Valientes” tour and making numerous television appearances on the television program “Un, dos, tres” during the 1990s.
The artist hopes to be able to tune in with the Spanish public and generate a “roller coaster” feeling, like “that you cry, that you scream, that you get passionate, that you get up, that you say: ‘Now I’m worth it, mother!’, and you tear off your dress”, she exclaims.
Faced with difficulties such as her judicial scandal, the singer has thanked the support of her followers belonging to the LGTBIQ+ collective, whose status as an icon with hymns such as “Everyone is watching me” earned her the Mr. Gay Pride Spain 2019 award.
“They have helped me so much in so many ways that you can’t even imagine at times when I’ve been in the darkest hole. As the Medusa song says, ‘They turned their backs on me and not their hearts’, but they gave me their hearts”, she concludes.