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Emilio Aragón: "I will return to Cuba when I can put a piece of paper in an urn"

2021-08-11T02:10:32.776Z


Musician, comedian and businessman, he assures that for three years he has been going through a zen moment after having been everything on Spanish television


Emilio Aragón (Havana, 62 years old) is today for his grandfather Bebo.

He has been everything on television and now he merges his soul as a musician with that of a

showman

in

BSO

, on Movistar +.

From a transhumant family, creative lineage and stage race that became the magic of a television set, he claims to be a clown and only talks about politics to say that he will return to the Cuba of his origins when it is possible to vote.

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Question.

You wear your father's [Miliki] accordion in the

BSO

program.

For any child who grew up in the sixties in Spain, playing that accordion is a responsibility.

Answer.

My father and his brothers were great musicians.

My father played the accordion because at the beginning there were no public address systems in theaters in the 1940s and that instrument, in the absence of a piano, projected the sound well.

So between him, Uncle Gabi with the sax and my Uncle Alfonso, Fofó, with the guitar, they formed an unbeatable trio.

Like my grandfather, all three were clowns and musicians.

Q.

Do you also consider yourself, deep down, that: a clown and a musician?

A.

Above all, I always say that I am a musician who has been allowed to do things: comedy, entertainment television, fiction, cinema ... But then I always go back to the starting box.

A man's homeland is his childhood.

You come home as a child.

There we live so much freedom, they did it magnificently well.

I try to pass it on to my grandchildren because, in a way, I was so gentle with my children ...

Q.

What do you mean?

R.

Maybe I wanted to direct them too much in some things, something that my parents did not do with us.

Q.

And don't you think they gave you so much freedom because they saw you as very responsible since you were little?

R.

No, far from it.

They did it with me and my sisters.

It was because they had to live everything they experienced: the Cuban revolution, dictatorship in Venezuela ... And that gaze that both of them had, open, was very important.

P.

The nomadic side of your family has taken you everywhere except back to Cuba.

When will they return?

R.

When you can put a piece of paper in an urn, as we do here.

Q.

Before, not even incognito?

R.

I would like as soon as possible, but Cuba deserves to be able to vote now.

P.

Of all its aspects: musician, comedian, clown, actor, director, tycoon ...

R.

Noooooo.

Q.

A little.

A.

No, nothing.

Of all that, with that of a musician, good or bad, is where I feel at home, afterwards, what is related to the audiovisual.

As a clown ... well, I stepped into a circus for the first time when I was 15 years old, long before I had started working on television sets.

But she had blown it at home as something romantic, even if she didn't experience it.

Q.

You tell me that you have not been a tycoon, okay, but you have lived, and actively, the transformation of television in four decades inventing formats.

He even got used to being the audience leader in everything.

How do you feel about failures?

R.

There, when failing, is when you learn.

I have tried everything.

I don't want my grandchildren to ask me "I drink, how do you do that?"

and not being able to answer them.

I would like within the world of show and entertainment, at least to peek behind the curtain and have seen something.

Q.

And that, why is it?

To an eager or exploring spirit?

A.

Pure curiosity.

Q.

And anxiety?

R.

Yes, I have had some anxiety attacks, especially at the time of the big audiences of

The Game of the Goose

or

Family Doctor

, who could not go out into the streets.

"I have had some anxiety attack, especially with

The Game of the Goose

or

Family Doctor,

when I could not go outside"

P.

That would make you want to disappear.

A.

Especially because one was looking for quality time to take advantage of with the family and could not get it.

Q.

In fact, it disappeared ...

A.

Yes, that's why I went to the United States.

For a vital need to train in other things and yes, to disappear.

That year I hardly saw television, I focused on attending concerts, rehearsals, making music with other people, in the theater ...

Q.

What did you come back for?

Did you want to continue or did you feel the encouragement of others who needed you to continue?

That must be a bit angry, right?

R.

A symptom of maturity is knowing how to resign, precisely because you cannot and that implies responsibility.

I had to wait a few years until everything was normalized and I was finding my place to make, for example, my first film,

Paper Birds

or

A Night in Old Mexico

, with Robert Duvall.

I had to tell my grandchildren that I had worked with him!

"A symptom of maturity is knowing how to resign, precisely because you cannot and that implies responsibility"

Q.

Will you tell them stories?

R.

They fall asleep with the adventures of Captain Bebo, I have recorded them, tales of a sailor, who sails the oceans with his father.

In fact I have gone to count them at their schools, with the ukulele.

I would still like to develop that character, it has something of Quixote of the sea ...

P.

See, the tycoon is out.

R.

Do you know why?

For necessity.

There are no such programs, it would be based on someone who tells you something, as simple as that.

P.

You, who is temperance, how do you experience this hysteria in the environment?

R.

For three years or so, I am going through a zen moment, where what remains are the important things: the family and those things that you really want to do.

If they left me in a room with a piano, a cooler and a pottery wheel, which I am now starting to give pottery classes ...

P.

Not a TV?

R.

Well, to see a movie from time to time or a series.

If we got used to seeing the positive things, the virtuous and not vicious circle of life, we would do a little better.

If we were generous enough to better say good morning, that would be enough.

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Source: elparis

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