The 80s were his: Nacha Pop, Invisible Dance, Tequila, Modesty Apart, La Guardia, Mondragón Orchestra… These groups or some of their members will be performing together on March 25. Colosseum put on show I went to EGB. Type! Among these figures from the golden age of Spanish pop vicky larraz (Madrid, 1962), first voice ole olecomposer and television presenter, who retired from the stage after this performance. A few weeks after his farewell, he reviews his career and reflects with disappointment on the Spanish music industry and its success, claiming to “respect” veteran musicians.
How do you yearn for these abbreviations, EGB, and the musicians who will be performing in A Coruña in the show bearing this name?
Oh, how beautiful. Many ideas come to mind. Of course I have nostalgia, but I always say that the eighties live in me, not me in the eighties. The essence of the creativity of the explosion of music and art that has suddenly attacked our lives is something you will never forget. How can we forget all this now, when there is such a temporary and disposable musical panorama! I am very honored that this tour that I bid farewell to represents that wonderful time and that we are back on stage Nacha Pop, La Guardia, Orquesta Mondragón…
But then and he musicThey seem so far away today.
I think that time never passed, it should never go because it would remind us how things should be done and that there is a better way to remember it than music.
Olé After you and Olé broke up, you were victorious at the time. But then she left the band and we learned less about Vicky Larraz. What is victory?
As an artist, I think that when you express yourself creatively, doing what you want to do first is a victory. On the one hand, there is personal glory, on the other hand, the victory that popularity gives you. True victory is victory as an artist, and I experienced it with Olé Olé and then alone. It was also a victory that a great composer like Nacho Cano sponsored us and believed that he would give us that song. checking. It is also a triumph to have a record label, a producer, and the means within our reach, whose absence is evident today. Since 1983, that song continues to sound like a hymn, a message passed down from generation to generation. This is victory.
Is victory hard to control?
Yes, because no one has a goose that lays golden eggs. You can’t control what they think of you. I like to think that when a group gets out of their way and does something truly heartfelt by believing in what they’re doing, that’s the greatest control they can have over what they do. We are energy, music is energy and it reaches people. When you go on stage and live, feel and convey this message, and when it reaches the public, you are an artist. I believe in artists, not so much in singers.
It’s been a long time since that first victory. Did the music scene treat you well?
The people are very good. I can only thank the fans for their dedication to me, my career and my dreams. I was out of my country for twenty years. United States of America, I’m back, we continued on Olé Olé with the original members and people welcomed us with open arms. The media hasn’t been very nice to us, in fact, they have failed all the artists, and that’s one of the reasons I left with this essence of the eighties, this farewell tour.
Did the media ever believe you?
You cannot support trends where today is reggaeton and tomorrow is something else. As it was in the eighties and nineties, it should be a site for all artists and movements. Veteran artists must be respected, and those of us who have been on stage and music in this country for 40 years are less respected than someone who has just arrived. Fortunately, there are great professionals around me who help me but not all have that luck.
Do you leave the stage with hatred or discomfort?
Anger is not part of my core. Nostalgic and sorry, but I know that a cycle has come to an end and I still prefer to spend the energy I have on other things. I worked on television in America, I worked as a producer… Now I don’t want to beg for support, but only young people can’t get out of this business. talent shows this is responsible for paying tribute and there is no room for everyone. The ancients keep creating!
Does music give you what it gave you when you were younger?
My relationship with music is always evolving. As a composer, this gives me great pleasure and richness because you discover yourself in every song, lyrics, music, melody. This pleasure will not be taken from me by anyone. What I’m left behind is industry, rusted gear.
He sings as if the music industry treats him as a commodity, not as a person or an artist.
They think we are here for the love of art, that we are not professionals. Music has a soul, a heart and a name of its own. We have devoted almost a lifetime to it and there is no respect for it. To Raffaella Carrà, tom jones… thousands of people were respected.
How much weight do you think Olé Olé’s music leaves in Spanish pop music?
Time did not hurt him. First, because they were great melodies and never-expiring lyrics: I’m going to a ride, don’t check, I’m dancing without leaving the house… Which party does not sound today checking, who turned 40? When we got back together as a group, the young people danced like crazy. This should be valued by the media in this EGB cycle: Vicky Larraz, La Guardia… What an honor!
For a long time, her rivalry with Marta Sánchez, her successor in Olé Olé, was published. And the last thing you can read about is talking about making peace. Has there been such a conflict between the two?
As artists, as women, we needed to come together and hug each other. Each of us adds a lot to the music inside and outside of Olé Olé. He came to my concerts and I to his. We have a lot in common and it was ridiculous to have arguments. we recorded the song love me forever. This is the message we deliver together through music.