“Being in therapy since I was 18 helps me to keep things clear”
Estefanía Correia, Nía, as her nephews call her, never believed in fairy tales, but when she woke up from her dream in ‘OT’ she had “very bad” moments. At 28, this Canary Islander with a Guinean father has formed a duet with Edurne, María Peláe, Gente de Zona… And now with Deichmann, who is not a singer, but the largest shoe retailer in Europe. The song is titled ‘Step on the sky’.
–’I’m going for more’, says the lyrics. Is she ambitious?
-Quite. At work I always want more. When I set my mind to something, I fight until the end.
–Is it more to step on the ground than the sky?
-Yes. I have things very clear and my feet on the ground. I tend to control everything in my professional life. And that sometimes takes its toll. In my personal life I get carried away a lot.
–Sings ‘Candela’ with Rocco Hunt and Lennis Rodríguez. Is that Nía cañera the one you most identify with?
-Definitely. That’s me. ‘Candela’ not only talks about the fire that we carry inside. She also has to be a strong person, with vitality, a restless ass. And I am.
–Do you follow the World Cup in Qatar?
-Very little. Soccer doesn’t appeal to me much.
–Would you perform in your stadiums if you were invited?
-Nope. I do not share values and it would not contribute anything to me as a person. They tell me that they give me a million euros to sing in Qatar and I wouldn’t do it. I am very free, there the woman is not. She couldn’t be me.
–Have you wanted to control her in her sentimental life?
-No way. My partners have been older than me and I have grown a lot thanks to them. They have all been very good. I think that in the end you attract what you project.
Do you have a good self-esteem?
I don’t know if it’s self-esteem. But I am clear about what I want and what I don’t. And I’ve also been in therapy since I was 18 years old. I have wanted to remove ballasts from my personality.
– Were you bullied?
-Nope. I started because I have vitiligo, a disease that causes me to lose melanin. Medicine attributes it to stress. I decided to look inside myself. Dealing with the relationship with my father, which has never been good. And, anyway, here it goes… It’s a complicated topic.
–She debuted as an actress in the series ‘Once upon a time… but not anymore’. What is her role?
– The anti-princess. I got along with Juana, my character.
Have you ever believed in fairy tales?
-In love, never. I don’t know if I was a weird girl or because of how I was raised. At work I did believe that everything was rosy. I came out of winning ‘OT’ without knowing how the industry works and I had a very bad time. But I have learned a lot.
–And she has proposed to be the benchmark for other black girls.
–I want those who feel less about their skin color or their afro hair to see that there is someone like them on television. In the Canary Islands I never experienced racist episodes but in Madrid I did. In ‘Your face sounds to me’ they said that they only gave me characters from black singers to favor me. No one criticized that my colleagues were given white characters.
–Black is not an insult to you.
-No way. I am black, my root is black. My father is African. But it depends on how they tell me. If I notice that he is derogatory, of course he annoys me.
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