Lourdes Pastor (Puente Genil, Córdoba, 44 years old) is a sociologist and singer and does not need Israel to destroy Gaza so that, as Manuel Vázquez Montalbán said, poetry comes out socially. In addition to choosing the letters, choose where to say them and that is why its version of Santa Barbara Blessed in DOLORES IBARRURI LA PASIONARIAdocumentary that Amparo Climent premieres on October 3. Another scenario with a special echo is the European Parliament, where it was on September 23 to honor Miguel Hernández. There, in Brussels, he sang Andalusians from Jaén At the request of the poet’s family, but also a subject of its own, BULBERY FOR PEACE, accompanied by guitarist Melón Jiménez and the flutist Lara Wong.
Ask. How was “Gaza’s thing is genocide with worldwide complicity” to a parliament that still does not accept the term?
Answer. Very exciting and I ended up crying because I could sing that bulería in front of people who have power to change the world. Also because in front of me were the granddaughter and daughter -in -law of Miguel Hernández, who asked their lordships to put an end to that massacre. I did what I usually do: try that art serves to get where the reason is not coming, which is the one that would have to arrive.
P. Among his repertoire is Hello beautiful, A song dedicated to the thirteen roses and I know that he loves the goat, the singer with living social conscience par excellence. Are more figures like him missing in flamenco?
R. I am not the one to tell anyone how far getting wet, but it seems to me that flamenco should have more social awareness because their roots are: the songs of the forge speak of the difficulties of labor exploitation, also prisoners or mining companies. I now remember El Lebrijano, who invented a stick, the galleys, with which he denounced the oppression of the gypsy people. That is the root.
P. Your last show is titled Flemish beats of democracy and feminism. Never, nor as a child, sang that latrilla that says “you have a morning, when I hit you, call the guards”?
R. Never! It is our story, I know, but I don’t sing that or the one that says “my Marío I have pegao Because he wants him to be guise with cod ”. The good pay And I changed the lyrics: “Well pay, well pay, well pay … there is never a woman.”
P. You, in fact, sings to salaries and miserable pensions with which many single mothers survive.
R. Yes, my mother taught me, Rafaela Pastor Martínez, who has always fought for women’s rights. Therefore, and because I have eyes on my face, I know that flamenco is macho, as well as opera, rock, pop or university. No scope is fought.
P. The look was given by his mother and the metal of the voice, so gypsy, he owes his father. But it is its maternal uncle the male figure that has marked the most.
R. That’s right, Juan Carlos Pastor Martínez, author of many of my lyrics and a man who has worked in the field, welder and what was needed but is, above all, a poet. If I feel so much pride to have sung Hernández in Brussels it is for my uncle, because coming from the earth, without a formation, writes some beautiful poems. And because we must not forget, as his own daughter -in -law told me, that Hernández was persecuted for his ideas, but some who shared them, rejected him because he smelled of goat. Classism is like that, as machismo and racism, I see it everywhere, also in areas that I admire, like that of art, where those of below costs us more to find space.