Moving farewell to singer Jeanette in Carlos Saura’s burning chapel

Last Friday, one day before receiving the Honorary Goya, Carlos Saura He died in Madrid at the age of 91. and the dinner academy paid tribute during the great night of Spanish cinema to one of the most important directors of our cinematography.

Yesterday Monday, the headquarters of the Academy hosted the burning chapel of the filmmaker and hundreds of people came to say a last farewell to this key figure of the seventh art, who directed essential films of Spanish cinema, such as Carmen, Hi Carmen!, Goya in Bordeaux oh The walleye.

A particularly moving moment was the one that played in the wake of the the singer Jeannettewho, at the express request of the family, and after his highly commented absence from the Gala Goya, sang a capella in front of Saura’s coffin his song Why are you leavingbecame world famous in 1975 thanks to another great success of the filmmaker, breeding crows.

This absence of Jeanette at the Goyas has caused a lot of talk about her. However, his song was present at the tribute to the directorbut it was interpreted by the Mexican Nathalie Lafourcade. For this reason, the singer was very hurt for this gesture that the Academy had with her.

“It has been a very sad day for me, since I learned of the maestro’s death. I was able to say my last goodbye with an emblematic song from one of his films, Raising Crows, Why are you leave, which I sang earlier in front of his grave, in front of the box where my dear teacher is, so nothing, I’m a little sad that the other day at the Goyas they didn’t have me to sing the song , that they had someone else who, with all due respect to the singer, who is not responsible for all this, I think the duty of whoever organized the event should have thought of me and I have nothing more to say” regretted

“Why are you leaving was number one almost everywhere in the world. Even Carla Bruni sings it for me, and what I don’t understand is that a song that became famous, thanks to one of my songs. The song helped the movie, movie helped the song. It was number one almost all over the world. What I can’t explain is that I wasn’t at the Goya the other day” she added, unable to understand why they weren’t counting on her for the tribute to Saura.

Without going into the details of what happened, but pointing directly to the organization of the gala, Jeanette does not hesitate to affirm that “they stole the job that suited me”. “I’m quite sad, surprised more than anything, as everyone knows I’m the original singer of the song, and at least they should have picked me up to sing Why Are You Going instead of picking up another singer. He doesn’t don’t explain it to him. nobody” said, assuring that he would not, however, take legal action against the Academy because “it’s already done”.

Jeanette remains however with the affection that Carlos Saura has always shown to his mythical song: “He was in love with her. It was the song he loved the most, and if you don’t know, his wife Lali put Why are you leaving and ten minutes later he died” she added enthusiastically.