Valia Castro, singer: "Even my mother doesn't know it's bad" |Culture |Country

The singer-songwriter went back to work almost two months ago due to health problems and recounted his past experiences.

"Even my mom didn't realize it was that bad," said Valerie Castro, the singer.

After taking nearly two months off work due to mental health issues, the singer-songwriter returned to the stage tonight and spoke about her experiences for the first time.

Valeria Castro is having a fun night.He shared Spotify's annual stats on Instagram and connected with 80 years of emotional music lovers.He is not ready to accept the old-man, algorithmic model used to label a 99-year-old Taurus as an old man."This is what happens to me to continue Silvana Estrada and sílvia pérez crrez. Breaking.

En efecto, la noticia es que la autora de guerrera, cuídate, la soledad o tiene que ser más fácil (sí, es tan pudorosa que escribe todos sus títulos en minúsculas) ha recuperado el humor, la guasa y hasta la capacidad para la autoparodia. En el transcurso de la conversación, una hora larga de confesiones y algún dulcito en una cafetería amiga de Chamberí, las sonrisas doblegan con creces a las lágrimas, que alguna vez amagan pero ni siquiera encuentran motivos suficientes para brotar. Y esta claudicación de la tristeza no acontecía desde aquel fatídico 13 de octubre en que la cantautora de La Palma protagonizó una actuación poco agraciada en Operación Triunfo, con una voz agónica que no parecía la suya, y docenas de anónimos justicieros procedieron a un cruel proceso de lapidación en las redes sociales. Tres días más tarde, la artista anunciaba en un comunicado “una pequeña pausa en este camino para recuperarme física y mentalmente”.

"In the summer months (with the death of his grandmother" and a period of many mental noises, a period so amazing and adapted to your family, now to a period in which he talks about the medical reports at seven weeks and adapted, because the medical reports are clearly expressed)."We live in a world where external noise is aggressive.

Castro regained his clear and warm tone, his speech and his idiom, even if he did not want to recall all the details of the event at the Gran Teatro Falla in Cádiz, ahead of the televised Black Monday, when an attendee told this journalist, "Doesn't he look like him?" wrote."I know the truth that lived in my head during the day of television," the artist grumbled."Since then I have not faced empty crying. We wrote the report at the house of my representative, and I understood how lucky I am to have a group of people who not only work with me, but take care of me like a mirror."

That same morning, Valeria deleted all social networks from her mobile phone ("now I reinstalled them, but I'm coming in little by little"), canceled trips, postponed a handful of concerts and began a healing process that today reaches its climax: the Mar de Vigo auditorium will witness her happy re-adjustment in the maelstrom this Monday."On the day of the declaration, I reluctantly agreed to quit," now opens this three-time Latin Grammy nominee, author of the central song of El 47 and recent winner of the Ondas award." Since that Thursday, I have not stopped mentally visualizing my return all the time. Along the way, I realized that I went on many stages because of the many and extreme self-demands that I cannot have. others, because I am very healthy, but I ended up in an almostentrepreneurial dynamics everywhere, after my artistic desire to be limited everywhere in that life dynamics, now I become more human from all this.

He will write endless, hiatus, disconnection, disconnection, songs, more songs, but start writing what happened.At first I had enough to bear the discomfort.Then the most difficult part: Very difficult part: Rediscovering a very personal and emotional performance of the song, focusing on the fragile, beautiful, tremolo."I must have taken a long time to listen to myself and think that music was precious. I used to sing a lot. The neighbors sang a lot. The neighbors are annoying!"More laughter.

She was not alone.The messages of love between professional colleagues were so interesting that she doubted that jokes and jokes, rude jokes would continue on the networks.It didn't surprise him either: she's sweet, but not sensitive."I'm a child of immigrants and I know hate, but I don't agree that the world is doomed for it."She is taken care of, cared for and even invited home by her friend Maria Rosalen, a psychologist trained in singer-songwriter outfits.And she became a regular student of the Argentinian Patricia Ferro, singing teacher and music therapist, a petite and temperamental woman who is a saint and saint among her students.Pocho (Vitosta Morla) or Antonio Garcia, leader of Arde Bogotá.

Patricia was "a determined person in filling in the blanks", the first to make him realize that an artist writes about grief because he has already experienced it.And in Body in spite of everything (March 2025), his precious and deeply felt second album, there was already a lot of concentrated pain, although almost no one realized it in the spring.

- Not even in your immediate surroundings?

- Not even.The day before my mum, who is also a GP, told me. "Girl, I stopped listening to the album more carefully. I didn't even realize you were so bad!"

The good thing about autumn, in short, is a renewed moment of inspiration. The Bafumican crisis did not go any better, Valeria thinks, but now she feels settled and safe, if she is not the savior of the world or something."

- So you really haven't written any new songs in the last two months?

- Well, yes, although almost a therapeutic exercise for a week.Most people have started to appear, but I haven't checked them yet.None of them work, of course - the communication from the songs confirms that it's my official mother tongue.Now when I'm talking to you, it's like I'm showing myself in a second language, like I'm speaking English.

On the same day of this coffee, the office that protects Valeria Castro "like crystal" announced that the Canarian will perform the biggest concerts of her career in 2026 in separate halls in Madrid (January 9), Tenerife (March 21), Gran Canaria (July 26, Barcelona and Barcelona 30). They will be four great opportunities for Valeria to speak her mother tongue at the top of her lungs.Listen in your head.

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