07:00 • 15 ago. 2021
Vera GRV (Almería, 2000) you don’t need a tattoo to remind you that music is burned into your skin. She studied the Bachelor of Performing Arts at IES Alboran and works as a waitress in a cafeteria while preparing to achieve her dream.
What does singing mean to you?
For me singing is something that has been accompanying me since I was born, I consider it a necessity to make sense of why I am alive.
Do you remember when and how you discovered that you wanted to dedicate yourself to music?
With less than a year my favorite toy was a microphone that when you turned it on, it played on a radio. Then as I was learning to speak, I was also learning songs by my favorite artists. I loved dressing up as them and recreating video clips. From a very young age I liked to take advantage of any celebration or stage to get up to sing and that’s when I began to notice that people liked it a lot.
I always saw it as a dream until when I was 17 years old I met some friends who have a recording studio called XSORA, where I recorded my first song and it had a great impact with 100,000 visits. It was in 2017 when I dropped out of school to dedicate myself fully to music.
But, is it possible to make a career as a singer from Almería?
Of course it is possible, although more difficult since here there are very few means to promote, create and grow in the art world. I also consider that it is super important to support local artists if we want Almería to grow culturally and artistically.
What is Vera dreaming of?
I dream of not regretting tomorrow for not having done what I really wanted to do, which is dedicate myself to music. It is very difficult for me to settle for something safe having my future projection so clear, even if it is risky. Who does not risk does not win.
Until that dream is fulfilled, what are your plans for the immediate future?
I don’t like to think of an option B. Here I either go all or nothing. I just think about the process: I work to be able to invest in my career and I am developing musically.
His lyrics speak of love, lack of love and even carry a certain message that vindicates women and condemns violence against them. Do you consider music to be an important weapon to alert girls of your age to what love is not?
I think that music is currently the new language of youth and I have always liked to use my good or bad experiences to teach or contribute something. I also consider that it is very important to normalize reporting and to raise one’s voice on an issue as important as gender violence.
And what would you say to people who think that much of the urban music that is made today has a deliberately macho component?
Women since the time of Tupac – the origins of Hip hop – have been the whores and companions of the vast majority of urban songs. That continues to happen both in reggaeton and in trap, etc … But many women have shown that we can also become great artists. Although many men like more that we are the muse of their works, we can be our own work.
Between sharing the stage with C. Tangana or Rosalía, who wins?
Rosalia! Obvious! Although I admire both of them very much. They are both great artists and very authentic. Something I like about Rosalía is that she has shown herself to go very far without leaving her essence. My style is not the most commercial thing in the world and many people think that if I don’t do what it takes, I won’t go anywhere. She is the clear example that she is still the same and that by working you can achieve it. I know that tomorrow I too will be able to boast of having done it.
His body is full of tattoos and presided over by a ‘You will shine’ (‘You will shine’) on the neck. Why?
This tattoo is the one that represents me the most musically. I did it to remind myself that sooner or later I will shine. I consider that in music at the beginning you work and invest a lot without seeing anything in return, and so many styles along the way have made me doubt. That’s why I tattooed this phrase, so that I never forget that I’m going to make a living from music.
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