Normally people come and go from the groups and nothing usually happens other than strictly musical debates. However, what happened with Van Gogh’s Ear has gone far beyond its scope to make his jump to the chronicle in pink. And all because of the strange departure of Leire Martíneza scarcely affectionate statement not signed by this and the incessant rumors about the eventual return of Amaia Montero to the band that made him famous. A whole triangle of betrayals.
After tears, statements, discussions and rumors the story is as follows… They say that Amaia Montero and La Oreja de Van Gogh will give a concert together in 2025but it will be just that, as ABC has been able to confirm from sources close to the record company. Because what the singer is finalizing is a new solo album. By the way, his record company is delighted with all the free publicity that this whole thing is generating. And it remains Leire Martínez, now unemployed at the moment although with the public’s favor gained by the ugly exit, plus a group that is apparently looking for a new singer, the third. A casting that is already born absolutely poisoned.
Surely nothing has gone as expected by the already veteran Basque group, which remains silent in the face of so much noise. A strange statement is all that has been known these days while the rumors, criticisms and news did not stop happening. The result is a group that right now It does not have a singer but it does have a barrage of reproaches.
The beginning of the end has a date and was October 7, 2024. What seemed like an apotheosis of Van Gogh’s The Ear before 16,000 fans in Zaragoza turned towards perplexity when witnessing how Leire Martínez burst into tears in the middle of the performance of the emblematic song ‘Rosas’. Nobody believed it, something was happening. It didn’t take long to meet each other.
Leire’s tears
The singer already knew then that this would be her last concert with the Basque group after almost 17 years together. This was confirmed by the band with a cold statement that, they say, was not even written by them, but by an artificial intelligence. «The decision has been hard and difficult, but it comes after a long time of reflection and deep conversations in which we have not managed to bring together the different ways of living the group», explained the group (or the AI). A strange circumlocution to say that Leire had been fired. The singer would say shortly after that she did not sign that statement and that is all she has said so far.
And it seems that he won’t say much more, at least in the short term. This is how Luis Pliego, director of ‘Readings’, explained it: «Unlike Amaia, who left the group due to disagreements, with Leire they opened a casting where they hired her. She had an employment contract. She is a victim in this story. He cannot speak because he has a confidentiality contract».
For some time now, Leire Martínez had heard saber rattling; that is to say, the noise of the rumorwhich can be even more deafening than reality. Many months of hearing talk of Amaia Montero’s eventual return to the group, whose members also seemed crazy about music. «My four angels», said the singer. And the rumor blew up the decibel marker.
Leire Martínez complained to Navarra Televisión: “What I don’t like is that they ignore me,” said Leire, referring precisely to the rumors. «But well, what about me? It seems like everyone forgets that there is a female singer in the group. It’s ugly to me to see that nothing matters. I don’t deserve this».
They say that the relationship between Leire Martínez and Amaia Montero was always normal, although it never went further. However, the original singer of Van Gogh’s Ear was not very good either – as she herself would implicitly acknowledge – with his only known reaction to his colleague’s departure from the group. As soon as the news was known, there was a publication by Yo Fui a EGB where a photo of Amaia Montero appeared and she reacted with a laughing emoticon and another heart emoticon. They made a big deal and she, apparently repentant, deleted it later.
The uncertain future of this triangle after the betrayals
By then, the networks were burning, and mostly with reproaches against the group and Amaia. There were also the nostalgic ones, those who vibrated with ‘tell the sun‘, the band’s first album, with Amaia Montero at the helm. An impressive success that consecrated the singer, but with a secret that years later the producer Alejo Stivel would reveal: «It is recorded with other musicians, they didn’t know how to play».
The original line-up of La Oreja de Van Gogh, with Amaia Montero at the helm.
Amaia Montero left La Oreja de Van Gogh 17 years ago, when the band was at the crest of the wave, in search of a solo career and under a good record contract. The original betrayal? The first of a few so far? There was talk of “disagreements» never explained and the group launched a casting in which Leire Martínez, a former contestant on Operación Triunfo, was chosen. Although with decreasing popularity, the group would continue to be successful – the 16,000 spectators in Zaragoza are proof – while Amaia Montero’s solo career would never take off despite its promising beginnings.
And amid the rumors of an eventual return of Amaia Montero, ‘Vanitatis’ publishes that in reality she has never completely left. The reason? Who remains a member of a society called Van Gogh’s Ear SLmade up of the entire group, which manages all musical matters and so on.
What will come of this whole story of betrayals with fait accompli? Right now everything is a huge question mark except for Amaia Montero, the only vertex of this triangle that seems to have a more or less concrete short-term future with a new album and perhaps sporadic appearances with his old group, as ABC has learned. Meanwhile, there is a singer unemployed, although with popular fervor on her part, and a group stuck in a quagmire with the issue of succession. Van Gogh’s Ear has signed a most impressionistic painting.
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