Clara Yolks is the stage name of Clara Pomareda Pinto, a young Peruvian who has been captivating thousands of listeners. At 25 years old, she already has a musical album in Spotifysome video clips in Youtube and has taken over several scenarios. His latest release is the song “Emotional”, and the vibe it transmits took hold of a generation immersed in this pandemic.
This Sunday, March 13, La República interviewed Clara Yolks, who commented on her career, the furious moments on stage, how she currently feels and who she admires.
CAN SEE: Clara Yolks premieres “Emocional”, a song that conveys a reflection on mental health
Mental health and self-love present in the pandemic
“Emocional” is a song that talks about mental health and self-love. I feel that it has a musical wave with which I feel very identified. In 2020, the pandemic hit me hard in terms of mental health because I had personal issues that affected me, and thanks to that I realized that mental health is so fragile and so hard at the same time. It is a base. If you don’t take good care of it, you won’t be able to create more things. It is essential to give it special care and remove the stigma. Many people do not go to check. They think: “I’m not crazy; So, I don’t have to go to a psychologist or a psychiatrist”, but it’s like going to the doctor for a stomach ache.
Clara Yolks’s goal: to communicate something and to be identified
I am happy with the reception of this topic. It was my goal that people feel identified with something that was very intimate, but also with the musical part. I like the idea of accompanying people in their processes. I try to communicate something own and personal in a way that other people can say: “Wow, I’ve been through that too”. I like that they feel that the song, in some way, helps them.
CAN SEE: Smokin’ Pipe Band and Clara Yolks release the single “Ana y el mar”
Be a professional to live or live enjoying your talent?
My family and friends have always supported me. My parents were a little scared about what was going to happen. Are you going to be able to earn enough money to survive?, was the big question. But I also studied another career: Communication Sciences, and I graduated in 2019. With that my parents were calm.
However, I would like to be able to make a living from art. Currently, I do some freelancing and I have also been in office jobs to support the music and support myself. It is very difficult to be a musician or an artist in Peru. In 10 years I would like to be able to live only from music, from my art, accompanying people with art.
Friendship matters at work
It is very important to find a group with whom you can develop your ideas and that people understand it exactly as you want to project it. It is something very delicate. In art you have so much subjectivity that sometimes you can lose the main objective. I’m glad we found a team with whom we’ve been able to work this well.
I really like when people treat each other humanely. Before seeing each other as collaborators, I like that we see each other first as friends and see if they are really interested in my project. If they have the same goal, we will work with more pleasure thinking that we will all reach the same goal.
Los Huevos, a family that gets involved
I have a very nice community, it’s called the Yolks family. We call ourselves The Eggs. They are my eggs. I like it because I feel that, more than people who like what I do, they are people who become friends and begin to share their problems. I also interact a lot with them and we have a WhatsApp group. I like that we see each other as a family. I would like this family to grow in a few years and that the essence of getting involved in the lives of others, being like brothers, is not lost.
two unforgettable moments
A few years ago, in 2018, I had the surprise of playing “Lunera”, one of my first songs, and that a child on stage was singing it all. I see it, I upload it, and the boy sings it completely and the public goes crazy. It was very cute.
In 2019, I opened the Shawn Mendes concert for him, it was the biggest concert I’ve ever been to. There were 16,000 people. A very warm audience singing “Apuratay”. I was scared to death at the beginning because he said: “They don’t exactly come to see me; They come to see Shawn Mendes. I have two options: either they welcome me warmly, or they just wait for me to finish and focus on the artist.” In this case, they really liked the show and it was like a movie. They received me very well and I thank all the Shawn Mendes fandom. It was very nice and I had a great time.
Artists Clara Yolks admires
I adore La Lá and she knows it. She is an amazing artist. I love it. She always sings her songs and sometimes I aspire to be like that when she grows up.
Nathy Peluso’s performance. More than her music, which I also like, I like how she expresses her songs or the messages that she has in the songs through her body. It’s something I miss about concerts. There is a pandemic, but I haven’t had a concert for a long time where I have enough space to make that movement, that ease.
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