There are some very treated guidelines among family mediators to try to solve couple crises, but none as sophisticated as that used by Tania García and Yerai Cortés. A week ago the two took the Goya stage in Granada to collect the award for best song. It was awarded Almendros, the topic they interpret in the documentary led by C. Tangana, The Flemish Guitar of Yerai Cortés. She sings and he plays the guitar. The almond trees It tells the end of its history, reconciliation. But it all begins with a phrase that expresses perfectly and bluntly the feeling of a deceived woman: “Monigote, if my pains weigh you have thought better.” Who pronounces her is her, the Tania, at the beginning of her new album; And the monigote is Yerai.
La Tania (Alicante, 37 years old), actress and singer about to explode, and Yerai Cortés (Alicante, 29 years old), gypsy and rising value of the flamenco guitar, have been in a couple for 13 years. They have arrived at the event with El País together in a cold morning of February in Madrid, the city where they live. These days the tania has launched Amorios. THE TRUTH OF MY COPLILLA, An album with the guitar and composition of Yerai where the couple recounts their intimacies. The real ones. To have an overall vision of this story, it should be stopped in a scene of Yerai Cortés’s flamenco guitar, That in which the guitarist confesses an infidelity. In a dinner full of awkward silences, she reacts to betrayal: “From now on the main thing in my life is no longer you.”
The Tania smiles while remembering that tense dinner shot by Tangana with script zero: they lived and felt the most ungrateful episode of their coexistence. “The elaboration of the album has not been rational, but visceral. We have nothing to hide: it is our truth. It is a couplet that has gone through therapy, and it is true. We both go to therapy, so we have had our therapy separately, and then together the catharsis, ”she says. Yerai, by his side, rivets: “It is curious, because people may think that we have been brave for having told our couple intimacies. Brave? What’s up, we have freed ourselves. I feel privileged to have counted things and now weigh less. Actually, I have done a selfish and healing act: when I tell this I am taking away a great burden. ”
La Tania and Yerai met in an Alicante recording studio. She was 24 years old, had been living in Madrid for some time and planned a summer vacation in Alicante. Yerai, with 17 years, had composed a song and needed a female voice. And they contacted them. “When she sang it, I said: ‘My God of my life, but if Alicia Keys seems.” She had moved years before her native Alicante to the capital to study interpretation. He participated in a couplet show by Javier Limón, Anonymous in love, In Mecano’s musical I can’t get up today, in The musical of the 40 main and even edited an album like Tania García, Grounds (2019), Pop ballad. To complete the salary, he took shopping jobs in clothing stores. After that meeting in an Alicante study they begin to share a house in Madrid. Yerai counts the move: “My parents flipped in colors. They told me: ‘But where are you going to Madrid, with 17 years’. I had stopped studying and was working on a tablao. I earned my salary. But Tania was so pretty and had so much personality that it gave me everything the same and I went with her. ”
While she made the route of the castings And temporary jobs chained, he started working in a place in the Plaza Mayor: goalkeeper in charge of cutting the tickets. “Sometimes I started playing the guitar at the door and people stayed to see me on the street. Then they proposed to play one day a week at the premises. I called singers, friends of Tania. There I started mixing with the artists and then to work in the tablaos of Madrid. ” In 2021 C. Tangana discovers Yerai and proposes to participate in the disk tour The Madrid. During that 2022, with the documentary The Flemish Guitar of Yerai Cortés Also recording, the infidelity of him arises and the consequent crisis.
Amorios. THE TRUTH OF MY COPLILLA Start with Rag doll, Where Tania sings about her betrayal: “I wanted to take away from me what was mine, for about 20 springs, you wanted to separate yourself, and I with more than 30 and the meats sneaking ”. In Kisses of another It narrated those night outings in search of comfort that sought more damage than relief: “I left without intentions, I returned with war wounds, the body full of kisses and the soul broken with penalty.” In Bad love, I beg: “For what I am happening, what I do with my torments if the bars are closed and my open heart. / Alone with my brandy, and that nobody takes it away from me, which is the one who understands me. ” And in Almendros, He concludes: “In the distance, he reminded you and my heart hurt.” There are all the phases: the disappointment, the urgent company with another, the well of the heartbreak watered in alcohol and reconciliation. During this process the couple was separated. “I went to Paris two months, and there I was playing for bars, couplets like The emigrant (by Juanito Valderrama), which I also include in the album, because it was part of the process. But even being in Paris we called each night on the phone, ”she says.
Another of the fascinating aspects of this story is that the letters are from Yerai, in an integral exercise of autoflagellation. “Putting on oneself as a monigote is as difficult as a hero. When you get to write how handsome and ready you are lifts an ugly ego. But the fact of saying: I have not done this well, I have been a monigote, these things are not done. I have put myself in her skin, who has suffered it and who sings it. She told me how she felt and I wrote. I have given myself and has been quite therapeutic. Not everyone has the privilege of writing about us seeing ourselves from the outside, and being so visceral. And not go through the branches, as if looking for a justification for my mistake. No, uncle, here I have brought her and that’s it, ”says Yerai.
The musical genre chosen is the couplet, modernized by the production of C. Tangana and the electronics artist Nusar3,000. “There is no other genre like the couplet that tells the stories of disappointment so passionately. When I sang, I thought about those rambling interpretations of Rocío Jurado, such as That man, Where he says: ‘He is a great fool, a stupid conceited, selfish and capricious, a vain clown, “says Tania, and Yerai concludes:” We musically put together the couplet, which is a piece of wood that comes out of a tree, With a machine, which is the reggaeton tool or the afrobeat. And that anachrony seems incredible to me. It is a together, a provocation. The couplet is not much appreciated by orthodox flamenco, but when Bambino, Lola Flores or Valderrama sing them they are like cuppiece by bulerías. The most popular thing in the world is a fandango, which is a bridge between the couplet and pure flamenco. ”
The voice of the Tania on the album discovers an artist who transmits truth, an emotional force that turns into each syllable. “In his voice there is a part of protest, of telling things, like when someone in the town sings something without being singing, but he has something to say. That is the most visceral part, which comes out of the bowels. But when he goes through his throat he has a fluff, a very beautiful, sweet and soft thing that hypnotizes us all. All the songs in his mouth know different, ”explains the guitarist while she looks at him rapt.
From now on they will follow separate paths. Yerai continues with its tour and Tania prepares to perform your own. “I think it is more beautiful to go each other, so we will have things to tell us when we get together at home,” she concludes with a smile.