Almost 50% of the free votes cast through the
Operación Triunfo 2023
application fell to Naiara Moreno.
The 26-year-old from Zaragoza became the new winner of the musical contest on Monday night and won 109,000 euros as a prize.
She was never nominated, she became the public's favorite of the week three times and even dared to do a
bakala
version of Rosalía's
Desphá
.
He has been away from the Academy for a few hours, from which he left with the desire to dedicate himself to urban sound.
He dreams of collaborating with his idol, the Canarian Quevedo, who is also half of his colleagues, but he does not plan to abandon melodic songs.
“If I feel like singing a ballad, I will.
Music is so versatile... Focusing on the public listening to me in only one way is so sad to me... I want people to be able to dance in the club with one of my songs, cry loudly with another of them and sing another shouts,” Naiara told this newspaper on Wednesday morning.
He has arrived in Madrid after leaving the music academy located on the outskirts of Barcelona after 12 weeks of confinement.
The truth is that the winner of
Operación Triunfo 2023
refuses to define herself in many aspects, something dangerous for a new artist who aspires to transcendence.
He cannot decide to name the discipline learned at the Academy that has helped him evolve as an artist, nor how he wants to advance his professional project from now on: “I want to improve at the piano, composition, but also have a very complete production in my songs and move forward with English...”, he lists.
With his victory, he surpassed Paul Thin, the very personal musician from Granada who had been another of the favorites throughout the competition.
The man from Granada came in second place and the competitive Ruslana, a Ukrainian girl settled in the Canary Islands, settled for third place after having created an aura of a wayward girl around her in the last weeks of the program.
The public figures offered by platforms such as YouTube, TikTok and when it was broadcast on La 1. If Naiara has enjoyed anything, it is good press among the legions of followers who have often been carried away by the toxicity on social networks.
“We have been authentic.
I haven't had time to find out what they've said about us, but I'm not going to look at it much either...,” she says.
Her maturity (she was the oldest of the entire group of 16 contestants who have lived together at the Academy) and her loyalty have helped the self-proclaimed neighborhood choni become the audience's favorite.
His powerful voice, honed for 10 years as an orchestral singer, has allowed him to shine with songs in which he has shown his vocal abilities, such as Sobreviviré
by
Mónica Naranjo and others in which he has been able to show off his stage presence with
Let's Get Loud
by Jennifer Lopez.
“I didn't realize what had happened outside with the contest until a few weeks ago we went out to the streets to sign records for fans.
I was shocked, but upon returning to the Academy we managed to return to the bubble and forget about it,” she says.
Now, Gesmusic is already preparing the joint tour that will take the 16 contestants to 10 Spanish cities starting on April 27.
He takes the loyalty thing to the last consequences, naming his two close friends from the contest, Lucas and Paul Thin, as his winners of the edition.
The entire reality show
has happened with them
, because the three were among the six finalists of this edition.
Until the long and intensive
masterclass
that was
Operación Triunfo
, the Aragonese had been self-taught, listening to “both flamenco and Estopa,” she remembers.
At 17 years old she preferred to look for work rather than continue studying.
She found him as an orchestra singer and has continued to be so until entering the Gestmusic format.
At the gala 0 she dared to do
I'm dying
from The Fifth Station.
With the announcement by Prime Video of the renewal of the program, what is the fourth era of
OT
is consolidated .
First it swept La 1 at the beginning of the 21st century with Carlos Lozano, then it remained for many seasons on Telecinco with Jesús Vázquez and was revived strongly for a new generation on the public network starting in 2017, with Roberto Leal at the helm.
Chenoa, one of the original
triumphs
, has become the presenter of the format.
Naiara's victory shows that times have changed and that the audience no longer penalizes a young woman with a strong personality, as happened to the Mallorcan girl on her day.
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