With his first record work, ‘Do not forget me’, Diana Navarro achieved a double platinum album, the nomination for best revelation artist in the Latin Grammy and a rosary of awards and candidacies. But, above all, the artist from Malagueña managed to access … to the first division of music, from which it has not yet descended. Of that twenty years ago, a figure that deserves well, thinks, celebrate it big; Sunday will do it with a recital in the Real Theater. The song ‘Solo’ was his first success; The show that presents now – after the Real will come a tour in a smaller format – is significantly titled, ‘I’m not alone ‘. “It is a review of my career as consistent with the requests of the people who follow me, because it is difficult to summarize 20 years.” ‘I am no longer alone’ is also the title of a song that has written for the occasion, and that is «a love letter to the people who have believed in me. I am not alone thanks to all of them; The artist is not alone; Twenty years later, these people have shown that I still love me, and I can’t be more grateful.
The prehistory of these twenty years was, says Diana Navarro, a decade (from 16 to 26 years old) of “peak and shovel, competitions, cultural associations, until she became known. And when I became known, me No one gave me anything. Everything in life has cost me a lot of work … and I appreciate it, because that makes values what you get. The artists, sometimes, we have that they seem to give us things because we are special, and it is not. You have to value and you have to thank every thing that happens to us ». They have not given him anything, he says as he smiles naughty, “but it is true that I ask the universe that it costs me a little less work now that I am an independent artist.”
Diana Navarro refers to his recent decision to leave his record company “of a lifetime” to take the reins of his career. «After incarnating Piquer shell In the theater, in the play ‘In strange land’, I wanted to make a couplet and they did not see it, so we kindly ended relationships. It has been a fantastic decision; When an artist takes the reins of his career in all aspects, very enriching things happen. I do not renounce the work of the record, and I appreciate it, but since I am in command everything has changed ».
The couplet is the backbone of Diana Navarro’s repertoire. «I have always claimed it, I have never renegated the genre. When I did not take, I said: ‘I sing copla, I am folktrónica, electronic folkloric. And I am very happy that that seed that I sowed has flourished and dug in the young people ». The couplet, he insists, «it is not a genre of the past. In the 21st century, couplets continue to be written. What I do are neocoplas. The one who made the transition fantastically well was Manuel Alejandro; Everything that Serrat or Sabina does are, for me, songs, because they are incredible stories, very well told and very well written ».
The problem, it continues, is that the couplet «was accused of Franco without being, by coincidence on dates and because this man liked the couplet. With the transition, people fled from her and wanted to be Swedish and deny everything that was something traditional Spanish. Were Carlos Cano and Martyrdom Those who recovered the couplet, and I feel their disciple. Now it looks like what is, culture of our country and the sound memory of our elders. In addition, it was the music that women sang when they couldn’t speak, they sang ». There are much more modern letters than people can think. «There is a lot of poetry LGTBIQ+, covert, because Rafael de León, aristocrat and homosexual, some did not love him for aristocrat, because they said how he was going to write poetry. For me it is one of those of the generation of 27 and hopefully it is recognized, even one hundred years later ».
Precisely Rafael de León is one of the protagonists of ‘In Stranger Land’, the work of Juan Carlos Rubio with which Diana Navarro has premiered as an actress. Fabula a meeting that never existed between García Lorca and Piquer shellwith León’s own as an introducer. Interpreting the Valencian singer was, he acknowledges, a before and after in her career. «Doña Concha had everything that was missing for temperament, starting, hunger, self -esteem, of putting limits … and when building the character and feeling that I was, some of that has remained in me. Learn that healthy assertiveness, set limits and say that it is not very healthy. She may have less assertiveness, but we had to understand her: she lived in a world of men in which the woman had neither voice nor vote, having fallen in love with a married man … They say she was bad, that she had an impossible character, but I am that I am in love with her, and the only thing I can say is that I understand her and that from the hereafter I feel it and I appreciate it. And to his daughter, Concha Márquez Piquer, too ».
Knowing how to say that it is not one of the commandments – at the same time the most important – for any artist. «Yes, but I, for my personality, I am more to apologize than to ask permission. I have always been very shame, very respectful, always thinking about the other … and with the maturity I learn. But I have helped me a lot in me in all that. The three years that I have been, so to speak, are the years in which I have begun to shine more and in which I have begun to recognize more ».
Not only that, but he believes that he is now a better interpreter. «And best singer too. Youth makes you strength and look for the boast, make flourishes; I always perfected in the most difficult yet, but when the voice, over the years, is settling, I am giving more importance to the interpretation; I still do my melisms, my acrobatic things, but it is true that when I have understood that the transmission in a word without ‘garganta’ comes much more than an apotheosic ‘gargant’, I have found a huge field in which to investigate, and that has been given to me Mrs. Concha.
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