Malu, singer
“For mental health I try to stay away from everything they say about me, because if it doesn’t destroy your soul,” says the artist
She turned 40 in March and declares herself happy for having managed to merge Malú “with the bun, the scared, the insecure” with the tough and strong Malú who gets on stage. But personally, María Lucía Sánchez Benítez continues to put on her armor. “They say so many things about me…”, she says in full tour of ‘A thousand battles’.
-Are you especially warlike?
–I have always been a warrior and surfing my fears. But this album has been like a therapy. The battle that has hurt me the most in life, and the easiest to fight, has been with myself. That demand of mine, that extreme perfectionism did not allow me to enjoy what I did.
-Come on, she has been her worst enemy.
Yes, but I’ve gotten over it. In a very natural and unconscious way. On the previous tour I broke all the ligaments in my ankle. For the first time in my life I had to stop and that led me to live with that Malú with the bow, the one you leave at home because she is more vulnerable, fearful and insecure. Before, I spent more time with the strong Malú, with that character that you create for yourself. But in the end they have merged. Now I enjoy everything I do. It’s brutal.
-Has it been difficult for you to return to the tours now that you are a mother?
–A lot, but my daughter is already two years old and I make her like twenty ‘FaceTime’ a day. She already speaks and tells you: “No, mom, you’re not going.” Or that she wants to sing with me…
“Would you bring her up on stage?”
-Nope. One of my obsessions is that I live as normal a life as possible. There is something in this society that has moved me a lot and that is that when you are with your daughter they respect you in a different way. You can go to a ball park and be another mother.
–As for the rest, he is in the eye of the hurricane, that if he suspends a concert, that if he separates…
–The canceled concert in Castellón was not because of us. He was the promoter. But I will sing there. Of the other, I try to be as far away as possible. For mental health. If you are aware of everything they say, it destroys your soul a little. And it is unnecessary.
– Is there a price to pay for being the partner of a former politician?
-In an era in which we fight for love to be free, regardless of gender and whatever, the logical thing is that we follow that line in general.
–That he should not be judged by who he is with or by his ideology.
-Well, it is that my ideology has never been known, anywhere or in any field. And yet they say so many things… There are people who talk about me with overwhelming confidence.
-But I was asking if you paid a price…
-I think that I, my partner, my family, our friends, our parents have paid a price. All. But you really pay for it if you let it get to you and hurt you. I want everything that prevents me from enjoying my daughter, my life, my happiness or my peace.
-Now that we talk about the sexual health law, does an artist get on stage even if her ovaries hurt?
–I have been suffering from ovarian pain all my life, because I started when I was 15 years old. But it is true that sometimes it destroys you and forces you to stop. And it seems very good to me that this woman has the right not to work and that she decides it. In my case, I’ve gone on stage with a ruptured gallbladder, with renal colic, with a fever of 40… As long as I can be up there, I’ll be there. I have always acted like this.
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