Interview with the singer Esther Merino. By Pedro Fernández Riquelme

News source: https://www.regmurcia.com/

The young singer from Badajoz is winning awards in almost all the competitions she enters. Furthermore, she was a pleasant surprise at the last Festival del Cante de las Minas. With this interview we want our readers to get to know her a little better.
1-Where does your hobby come from?

Since I was very little, fortunately or unfortunately I am not descended from a family dedicated to flamenco professionally, but I am very fond of it.

2-Do you remember the first time she went on stage?

I will never be able to forget that day, it was at a flamenco and copla festival in my mother's town, the only young woman that night was me and everyone was looking out for me, and I was very nervous, I got off the stage crying because I didn't think I was going to have that support from the public, the entire theater standing.

3-Do you think it is essential that, nowadays, a young singer should cut his teeth in competitions?

Contests are essential, to make yourself known, to give you performances on stage and to get to know the audience, but to learn it is better to be in a room listening to flamenco 24 hours a day and listen to the ancients, without ceasing to take evolution into account. that the song is having.

4-What feeling does her participation in the Cante de las Minas Festival leave you? Will you keep trying?

It has been one of the best experiences, reaching the final the first year I entered has been a success for me. When I entered the market I saw it as immense, I said, I have to give everything and convey to the audience what it feels like to be on this stage and what my lyrics say.

Of course I'll keep trying, I won't stop until I see the mining lamp displayed in the trophy case in my room.

5-Have you sung for the dance?

Many times, in fact several years ago we formed a dance team and they come with me when they demand it.

6-What clubs does she feel most comfortable with?

The seguiriya and the bulerías are the flamenco styles with which I feel most identified. When I perform I want to convey to the public what I have inside. If I am sad, I search for myself and sing by seguidilla and if I am happy I sing by bulería and I beat myself up. my little paw...

7-What is the current panorama of flamenco in Extremadura?

Extremadura is very little recognized in the world of flamenco and I don't know why, since we have several native songs, such as; the Extremaduran Tangos and Jaleos, the Fandangos of Pérez de Guzmán and those of Manolo Fregenal, the Taranta of Pepe el Molinero... and of the singers, what to tell you about Porrina from Badajoz, and Miguel de Tena and the guitarist Francisco Pinto.

I love my land very much and I proclaim it with my fandango:

From Badajoz

Wherever I go

I presume to be from Badajoz

And with my singing on the tablao

I proclaim that I am from Extremadura

For all four coasts

There is a lot of fans here and the clubs and official organizations such as the Provincial Council of Badajoz and the Junta de Extremadura through the Flamenco Art Federation, are in charge of carrying and making Extremaduran flamenco known throughout Spain.

I see flamenco in Extremadura more and more alive, since in all the festivals I attend I see a lot of young people and that is the most positive thing because I think that together we are giving it that air.

8-Who are your most admired singers?

La Paquera de Jerez, that woman, when I hear her, a chill goes through my body... Antonio Mairena, Fosforito, Carmen Linares and of course Miguel Poveda and my great friend Miguel de Tena.

9-When preparing mining songs, where do you see the most difficulty?

In the scales, the melismas, it has a melody that is impressive, apart from what you have to prepare your diaphragm to be able to hold a third...

10-What do you know about flamenco in the Region of Murcia?

I have only been preparing mining songs for a year and studying their origins, their cantaores and I like them a lot, since they have something different that catches your attention when you hear them...

11-Do you think that the communities of the so-called "flamenco periphery" have the same prestige and the same support that Andalusian flamenco may have?

It may be that Andalusia has more help when preparing a festival or a competition. But more prestige, of course not, each region has its roots, its hobbies and I think we should all support each other.

The prestige of each region is given by its competitions and festivals, therefore the same thing that is done in any region of Spain, whoever is in love with flamenco, must have the same validity out of respect for its organizers, since all the Those of us who dedicate ourselves to this should fight for flamenco to be universal and recognized.

12-What are your next projects?

The Federation of Flamenco Peñas of Badajoz and the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Government of Extremadura have given me the opportunity to be a singing teacher in an itinerant school that will be in all the peñas of the province of
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