Raúl left the stage for a year due to a health issue

In the summer of 2000, the clubs moved to the rhythm of I dream of your mouththe song with which the singer Raúl dreamed of going to Eurovision. He was one place away from getting it —Serafín Zubiri did it with hanging on a dream—, but in return achieved overwhelming success. At 25 years old, she had 11 platinum records, one diamond and one gold.

Raúl lived a wonderful experience in which he did not take his feet off the ground but ended up billing him. Two years later, in 2002, she had to get off the stage for a health problem.

“I did it for health. I had been non-stop for two and a half years, they were years of a lot of work, many trips, I barely saw family and friends. NI needed to look back and realize what had happened. During those years they told me you are number 1 and you do not realize what it really means until you stop, look back and say to yourself: ‘I have achieved all this, but at what price? this episode of his life.

He did not need help from specialists at that time, what the artist needed was to be with his family. “I needed to surround myself with good people, my family, my friends and even people from the media, from record companies, with whom I had already created a personal bond,” he recalls.

The phrase that put his feet on the ground

Raúl never took his feet off the ground and his mother, very cautious, never stopped warning him to be careful. It’s not that he needed it either, the singer said on the show deluxe fridayhad his own antidote to assimilating fame.

“A year after appearing in that pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, I myself wrote in my diary: ‘Congratulations, you don’t have to change anything, keep fighting and fighting as you have done so far.’ That is an agenda that I have had, a diary, for 21 years and I continue to keep it and look at it every day. And I’m remembering things I did 20 years ago. It’s a therapy “, says the singer who does not consider himself a broken toy, and who was himself the one who decided to move away from the front line to turn to his most personal project.

The multinationals, he says, do not support him as he would like, but he is happy with his current career. He defends that “you don’t have to be at the top to enjoy a profession as wonderful as music” and that has always worked from freedom being able to negotiate the contracts with all record companies in which he has been.

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