Lisbon, 25 Feb. Blanca Paloma is in Lisbon for her first international trip after being chosen as Spain’s representative for Eurovision 2023, where she hopes to dazzle audiences with her “Eaea”, a “new” sound that “can work a lot outside from Spain”.
“I think that even if people don’t have an ear for this genre, it will catch their attention because it’s the first time in the history of Eurovision that a song by bulerías wins and all that who is new or different at least does not go unnoticed”, the woman from Elche said this Saturday in statements to EFE.
“You don’t have to be Spanish to feel flamenco” and “everywhere in the world there are people who connect with this genre, added the artist, who will take a song and a song to Liverpool in May (for the final of the festival), a “risky” staging which, he assures, “can work a lot outside of Spain”.
He recognizes the work of previous artists who paved the way for flamenco to be recognized around the world and sees it as his mission to extend this legacy that comes to him from his paternal family.
Blanca Paloma (Elche, Alicante, 1989) is in Portugal to participate in the first semi-final of the Festival da Canção, a competition from which the Portuguese representative will emerge.
This is her first international trip since being chosen to represent Spain at Eurovision 2023 and also the first time she will perform her “Eaea” in foreign territory, and she is grateful that this first experience will be in Portugal, a neighboring “and friendly” country.
This time, the public will hear an acoustic version for voice and guitar, one more test of the “mutations” that his song will experience until he takes it to the United Kingdom.
“We want it to expand with this energy, this expansion that I have at this vital moment, which is to go as far as possible,” he explained.
He sees Portugal as a country that is coming “in force” and, although he does not reveal names, he admits to having “a few favourites” among the Portuguese candidates.
She will also perform at the Festival da Canção, where she hopes the Portuguese will feel “embraced” with her song.
“I would like to embrace them with ‘Eaea’, so that they feel enveloped in a music that will not seem so strange to them because I believe that there has always been an embrace between fado and flamenco and I believe that it’s music that have a lot in common,” said.
The woman from Elche landed this Friday in Lisbon, where she will stay until Sunday, the first of several trips she has planned to promote Spain’s candidacy for Eurovision 2023. EFE
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