translated from Spanish: Paloma San Basilio: “Viña brings me many wonderful memories, although now it is very different from the festival it was”

As for many great music, for Paloma San Basilio (69) it has been impossible to get off the stage. Seven years ago he announced his retirement, a promise he broke shortly after. Next year will celebrate 45 years on stage with a current career: just released “Closer”, album on which he covers songs by artists such as Joan Manuel Serrat and The Beatles, and now he will return to Chile to review his classics with a big band , first, at the Olmué Festival – which will open on January 16th – and then on the 18th of that month, at the Gran Arena Monticello.” It is an open show where I sing some of my hits and also themes of the universal repertoire that are perfect for the big band format”, advanced via e-mail to todayxToday.A time outIn 2009 was the first time the performer of classics like “Kiss to Kiss ….. Sweetly,” she announced that she would retire from music to dedicate herself to her grandchildren and her only daughter, Ivana. A promise that in 2014 led her to embark on the tour “Hasta siempre”, which that year brought her to the Festival of Viña del Mar to say goodbye to the Chilean public. At the time he said that his dream was to be able to devote himself to another of his many artistic passions: painting. That year she also marked her debut in the lyrics, “The Girl Who Danced in the Rain”, her memoir, a book to which the novel “The Ocean of Memory” happened in 2016, which took two years to write. Although his intention was to move away from music, in 2017 Paloma San Basilio returned to Chile with a symphonic show that he called something “pointy” and in November recently released “Closer”, his return to the recording studios after seven years. On that album – which will tour her in her native country in 2020 – the Spanish diva performed classics of the popular songbook such as “Ne Me Quitte Pas”, the Beatles anthem “Let It Be”, and also her hits, such as “Honey” and “Juntos”.-Seven years ago she announced her retirement from the stage What led her to want to say goodbye and what makes her follow?In these years I have played different sticks, both writing and experimenting with painting as well as unique and risky musical projects. There are stages to everything and I think it makes sense to close some and look for regeneration and new artistic experiences. I would have had a hard time doing the same thing for a 45-year career that I’m going to be in next year.-At that time she did a farewell tour that brought her in 2014 to the Festival of Viña del Mar What memories do you have of that stage?Viña brings me many wonderful memories, although right now the festival is very different from what it was when I started. I think I liked it more before, I felt it more authentic, although technically today is a marvel. I think I owe Viña much of my popularity in the rest of the continent when I started.-I read that your intention was to dedicate yourself to painting Have you been able to pursue that objective? Did music prevail over that passion? Within the very idea that there are many things that interest me, painting is one of them, not the only one and always in terms of play and search and discovery in techniques and materials. Passion is really a way of understanding life and it’s always in everything I do.-How was it to go back to the studio to record “Closer”? What motivated her to do it?” Closer” is born from a concert that I have already taken to some countries and Will make in Spain next year. It is a monologue with music in which the songs and the word shake hands. I needed to do something very direct and close to the audience, tell them things and be able to join my work as an actress and singer. The album is recorded between Los Angeles and Madrid with a very acoustic concept, wonderful musicians and almost live sound. That idea was the one that attracted me to get back into the studio and a beautiful song that my daughter Ivana has composed and that opens the record.-How did you feel about performing a creation of your daughter Ivana?Singing something about my daughter is a luxury. She is a great composer and the theme is a reflection of a story of loss and reunion. He also sings a Beatles song in a beautiful version.-Five years ago he published his memoirs What would he add today in an additional chapter?The truth is that since I wrote my biography so many things have happened in my life and I have undergone so many changes that I could write another book. I’d rather not close my story.