If José Luis Garci tasted Hollywood doing it, why can’t she continue to nurture the dream, again gain momentum and spread wings before a promising horizon? It is never too late to start over and twenty years is nothing, especially when only twenty have passed since you opened your eyes to the world. To start over, put points and apart to start unknown chapters from another look, more seasoned, mature, motivating.
“I know who she is, she’s a rapper,” a boy convinced outside the Chiclanero town enclosure. “No, he sings reggaeton,” another answered while they tried to guess who would star in the Saturday evening in Sancti Petri and looked around the row of attendees who entered to accompany Maria Parrado in his only concert of 2021, in Chiclana -his land- and on the stage of the Concert Music Festival.
Erroneous in their funny inquiries, the little ones surely counted how old she was when she became known for music. They are forgiven for the hilarious inaccuracy because since then many things have happened to the young artist to make an accurate profile of her success. The story has yet to be written in songs, those that have already happened and those that are yet to come in a path carved with exciting steps. Who was and is María Parrado? Where is this new Mary headed, whom you did the honors of presenting before the warmth of your land?
At the moment we know little about his sonic future, although some pill dropped in Chiclana in the form of a song. But that would come later. For the possible absent-minded, young and old -a very varied audience in age came to the concert-, Parrado reserved as the beginning of the show some visuals in which in a few minutes he remembered the dream fulfilled: domestic videos of his childhood giving him already to the mike with the tenderness of childish eyes, his passage through What a night Y The voice Kids, his first times in a recording studio … So much focused on so little to reveal the origin of the story. And Sancti Petri, the arrival and departure point of what awaits you. “It is a very hard work but it is also enjoyed,” said the chiclanera from the screen, now a woman of undeniable talent. Meanwhile, his band was preparing to start the concert. It seems that, today, Parrado has managed to achieve that difficult balance between sacrifice and glory that preludes this new stage full of sensations to experience.
She jumped on stage to give away the compositions that have accompanied her during her first musical decade. Topics where love and heartbreak alternated in her precious and limpid voice, although at times the instrumentation robbed her of prominence due to an imbalance of volumes. A throat that subtly finished off certain endings in turns between flamenco and Negroid, with power but without exaggerated acrobatics of a musical contest, despite its television past.
He was precisely accompanied by another talent from the land that came from the small screen, Julia Medina, “a girl with an angelic voice who has a wonderful project in her hands and whom I love very much – the girl from Chiclana introduced to the islander – to give a version of 90 minutes, of India Martinez, where their voices filled with emotion in several fragments; However, more verses were missed in tandem in a performance that was one of the moments of the night. “She is like my little sister and you are going to witness something super beautiful when it happens”, Medina returned the compliments when talking about the next work of Parrado, scheduled for October on the Concert Tour label.
The chiclanera presented several songs from her next album, scheduled for October
From that project, then yes, the chiclanera discovered a very special theme as her first single. “All endings are a new beginning. For me it all started in the 71“, since this is the title of a beautiful composition to his absent father that sounded, more than anything, like a song full of hope despite that” there is no future without you “of its stanzas. Yes, there is it for Parrado, for sure .
It was another version that continued to challenge the sensitivity of the audience. Lucy de Serrat, a song that was not in his selection of favorites to sing in The voice Kids but that has become a talisman of his career. A certain coincidence that led her, once again, to the memory of the father figure with the only accompaniment of the piano: “He included this song in the list without telling me, it was a mini-deception and since then I cannot get off the stage without doing it, it has been become part of me. I dedicate it to my guardian angel “, she spoke emotionally from the memory.
The chiclanera confessed “being a walking flan” before that important and exclusive appointment with her land before returning to the recording studio. That did not stop him from convincingly defending a repertoire composed of If you let me, All for nothing, Cold, April, Who -the theme version of Pablo Alboran-, Restless heart, Afternoon, It should -of Pablo Lopez-, A miracle, I’m good at, Little ones, I stay here -a piano and voice-, Who changes is me, I, my, me, with me -another preview of the new album- and an exciting See you again. “This song is as if it entered a time ship. How nice it is to remember where one is from, to sing in my land ….”. He almost did not finish it with excitement. “It always happens to me,” he confessed, “I don’t finish it today either.”
To start over, one must know the root, fix the baggage with the good and the bad, and let its branches grow towards new heavens. In this other awakening of María Parrado as an artist there are songs, talent and enthusiasm. The future is yet to be made. The present exists to return to breakfast every day. He assumes it with his head and practices it freely from the soul, like a religion without dogmas: “Up or down the stage, the music will always be there”, he said goodbye to his Chiclana leaving a very good taste in his mouth and great expectations.
