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Rosario Flores: "I've been wearing a breastplate since I was a child: it doesn't squeeze me and it protects me"

2022-09-25T10:42:42.208Z


The youngest of the daughters of the myth Lola Flores celebrates the Latin Grammy for her entire career and thinks that, at 58, she continues to sow more than harvesting: “I don't know what age is or how it should be or look like mine. I feel young and energetic”


Rosario Flores, looking super Rosario Flores —great hair, great body, great profile—, appears dazzling in the reception of the Madrid hotel where she grants one interview after another to proclaim to the world her joy for her new Latin Grammy, this time for excellence in her career.

She follows her, solicitous, in addition to a small entourage of assistants, a make-up artist who shades her shine and smoothes her curls for the photos, although later she messes them up herself, following the photographer's suggestions, to whom she insists several times, yes. , in which he moves the camera a safe distance away from his dark complexion.

"I'm old," she argues.

And all.

And everyone.

Why do I have the feeling of knowing her all my life?

Because you have known me all my life, because I was born the daughter of my mother and father and the sister of my brothers.

Many people have known me since I was born.

Or you think you know me.

And why, then, do I have no idea who he really is?

That's why, because you don't know me.

Because I have taken great care of my personal life, which is huge, great and wonderful.

Because I have fought to be me, Rosario, because I wanted to find myself and not start as an artist until I created my own style.

Everyone knows who I am, but I don't know who anyone is.

And that, sometimes, is playing with a disadvantage.

I have felt very observed since I was little and I have been choosing myself how to live.

I have chosen my path and I have been very hard on myself because I have loved my art very much and I have been very afraid of making mistakes.

You create an inner world that is only yours.

Does that exposure weigh you down?

Would you want to go unnoticed?

Sometimes you don't feel like smiling and you have to, but my reward is that I feel loved.

I walk down the street and they call me “beautiful”, “long live the mother who gave birth to you”, they tell me their sorrows, they see me as a sister, a cousin, part of their family.

I feel privileged and I thank life for it.

How thick is your armor?

It is finite, but it is there, yes.

I've had it attached to my skin almost since I was born.

She doesn't squeeze me, but she protects me.

I take care of life, yes.

I have always taken great care of myself.

My body.

My soul.

And with my children I am very heavy with that.

Life is so beautiful that you cannot risk it in a moment.

Did that fear save her from excesses that others, like her own brother, paid dearly for?

Well, being three or four years younger, I had a choice.

In my time, drugs were on the street and there was no information.

I have lost many loved ones along the way.

I could see, I could know, I could check what was happening.

I think that's why I was saved.

Does one get used to the absence of those loved ones?

You have no other.

You have sorrow inside.

Time goes by, you get used to it, life gives you wonderful things: your children, your career, your friends.

But the absence always goes with you.

Being able to succumb to sadness, how does one choose joy?

Not everything can be chosen.

It depends on what you feel.

I have always breathed love.

My mother told me that she felt great, that she was unique, that she was beautiful.

My daughter and music were the antidote to sadness.

My daughter, with whom I became pregnant a few months after burying my mother and brother, came to save me.

A misfortune like this leaves you touched, it may always be, but they give me life.

Last year he received the Fine Arts medal, now, the

Grammy

for musical excellence.

Do you feel that she is professionally harvested at the gates of 60?

The prizes are a wonderful harvest, but I continue to sow.

I don't know what age means.

Don't you believe in life stages?

Yes, as a human being, of course.

When my family left, my life changed.

Becoming a mom was the greatest thing in the world.

My second maternity was another wonderful door, being a mother at 20 is not the same as at 40. I have had good and bad moments, but I feel privileged and I thank life, which has behaved and behaves very fine with me

I feel young, healthy and energetic to sing.

Of course I have an age, but I don't know how I should be or look like because I am.

You have told the photographer yourself that you are “an age”.

But that's because I'm not easy to portray.

I am not a pretty woman.

I have a difficult physique, many angles, big nose.

This is going to be seen by many people and I'm excited for them to see me well, that's why I want them to take care of me.

But, come on, I feel beautiful and happy with my physique.

And the partners I've had have always told me how beautiful they see me.

I do not have any problem with that.

In fact, her hair, her hands and her body are part of her art.

Well, it's that I dance with my body, with my hair, which is part of my essence, with my dark skin.

I am and I feel a very free and very wild woman.

I am an artist of energy, more than vocal or musical virtuosity.

That's why I always say that whoever hasn't seen me live doesn't know me.

Is that energy what makes your songs endure and many of us know them by heart?

The more authentic you are, the more you get.

The public is not fooled.

She knows perfectly well when her soul is being given to her and when there is only a trade.

The public is generous when you give and I have always given.

She always wanted to be an artist, but I waited until I was more done, at 27, to go on stage.

And when I did it, I did it with such truth that people noticed.

Afterwards, it has been to follow the trail and not make mistakes.

Which of his songs do you get most excited about singing?

Ugh, with many.

But I think that

Qué bonito

is going to be the song that is going to be the most significant of my career.

The first song I wrote by myself and for my brother.

People have felt it as much and as theirs as I do.

It has reached hearts, and that is what I want, which is what I sing for, to give the public emotions.

And let them cry, laugh, dance, fall in love, let go of what they carry inside.

His outfits on stage and off are famous.

Does her closet have a bottom?

Haha, I have so many clothes that I won't have time to put them on.

I have my mother's things, and then all the things I've bought.

These rings from Mexico that I am wearing today, for example.

I have a lot of jewels because throughout my life I have dedicated myself to buying beautiful and special things.

They are part of me.

My daughter has a wardrobe for life.

I didn't make her so consumerist.

What's up, I'm not materialistic at all, I never have been, just as I've never had vanity.

Me, with having food and not lacking anything for me and my family, I'm satisfied.

Luxury is health, people who are healthy have no idea what it's like to be sick and have a bad time.

Life gives you such great lessons that sometimes we complain for no reason.

What is needed is more love, less selfishness and taking care of the planet and others, who come first.

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Rosario Flores (Madrid, 58 years old), the youngest daughter of Lola Flores and Antonio González, and sister of the late Antonio Flores and Lolita, defines herself as a free and wild woman.

Singer, songwriter and occasional actress, in her 30-year career she has built a very personal repertoire, with a dozen songs recognizable by several generations.

Last year she received the Fine Arts medal and this fall, the Latin Grammy for musical excellence throughout her career, which she will collect in Las Vegas in November.

Meanwhile, she works as a jury and teacher for very young artists on the television program

La Voz Kids

.

"Children are purity and courage in art. They give me a lot of tenderness and a lot of energy. Many times, you suffer when you think that they feel rejected if they don't pass the phase and they, after five minutes, are already thinking about overcoming themselves", comment.

Sometimes, he admits, she cries more than they do.

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