Luz Casal returns and faces the toughest question of her life

We are not exaggerating when we say that the house light is one of the most genuine voices in the Spanish music scene. It’s not hard to see what he’s singing just by listening to a short phrase. But much more complex has spent nearly five decades (46 years) body and soul on music. And with success. Now the Coruñesa is not satisfied with living on an income, but wants more. With that premise he presented his new album in style, I let you goRecorded live with the Real Filharmonía de Galicia and conducted by Paul Daniel.

Luz Casal sings a heartbreaking story of heartbreak in front of the Plaza del Obradoiro and for those present on that evening of 21 July 2021. How heartbreaking was his double struggle against the breast cancer† Far from collapsing or faltering, the Galician implemented a whole life lesson. The first time he was diagnosed was in 2007 while on tour in France. He recovered, but in 2010, the damn word appeared again by force, like an insidious trap, forcing him into another fight: “You are going through a difficult period of your life. There are people like me, that apparent drama, makes it in a hard vital experience, but that’s not trying to be dramatic,” he noted at the time. Her example could very well be seen as a paradigm for those like her who are forced to fight cancer: I once said something like it was worth going through these two episodes of the disease. It may sound very harsh, it may sound frivolous, but what I have learned is so powerful that, if I hadn’t experienced them, those two experiences would be less interesting as a person, and perhaps as an interpreter,” he reflected on TVE .

The public christening of her album has allowed Luz Casal to chat with the media about her new music, but also about a moment that will come sooner or later: the retreat† Some living legends of Spanish music such as Joan Manuel Serrat and Bunbury have recently retired. The artist from A Coruña is, of course, faced with the most difficult question of her life: “You always think that these are very thoughtful decisions, the moment you feel that you are no longer physically or that you have a problem with regard to your ability to in music, you have nothing left to say ‘what a shame’ but I’m sure in their cases it’s not decisions taken lightly,” he begins. “In any case, if someone leaves the stage or goes to the other side, they have we always have the music, so the pain is relative,” he says. In his own case, parting doesn’t seem close: “Luz Casal for a while? I don’t know, I don’t see the end, but what I think is certain is that I will never leave the music, but I don’t know how. At the moment I have some weakness, vulnerability feel or meet my expectations will I be honest enough to look in the mirror and read the introduction“, it ends.

As for the new studio work, I let you go is one of the songs that was part of the album Luz V released in 1989 along with other great songs of the Galician artist such as Freak one of both I do not care, selling more than 300,000 records in Spain alone. The lyrics, composed by David Summers, singer and composer of the Spanish rock band G-mentells the feeling of deep sadness a person feels when he lets go of the love of his life and knows that he will not return even if he has waited for it for years.

I let you go will be included in the CD and DVD album that: It was published on May 20 and later, on June 17, it will be released on double vinyl. Both will also have an artist-signed edition, making them a collector’s item for fans of one of the most established and important voices in the music scene in our country.

Luz Casal is also already working on new songs that she will record for her this year sixteenth disc original. It will be his first unreleased songs after he came out in 2018 let the air run† Luz herself has been responsible for the composition and authorship of most of the songs on this album, the most personal of her career, which she will also be releasing with Virgin Music Spain. This is Luz’s first original album after the start of the pandemic, the outbreak of which was made by giving comfort and guidance to those who asked. The artist, who has sold more than fifteen million copies of her albums worldwide and has received several awards such as an Honorary Latin Grammy, the National Award for Current Music and the French Medal of Arts and Letters, plans to participate are taking to the recording studio this fall and will release this highly anticipated album in the spring of 2023.