“We love you very much, Amaia Montero Saldias.” This is how forceful the members of La Oreja de Van Gogh were on their networks this Tuesday. The band, which has once again been the original formation that triumphed in the late nineties, has published a message of love addressed to the singer, the new leader of the group after the abrupt departure of Leire Martínez. Some words full of honesty with which they dispelled any type of doubt about their relationship: “We picked up the road exactly where we left off without being clear about the destination, but you know what? We don’t give a damn as long as it’s with you.”
The famous band insisted in their statement that Montero is “headstrong like herself, I’ll tell you that too, and with a more complicated character than seeing the shadow in the wind,” but they contrast it with “a giant, jellybean heart.” The praise reaches such a point that they tell their half a million followers that spending time with Amaia “should be a mandatory subject for everyone in this life.” In this sense, they added that this is what you have to do when you want to connect deeply with someone.
In this reunion not without controversy, Amaia has been, along with Leire, a central figure. “This one here seems like a normal girl, on the short side, but there’s room for an entire universe in there,” they stated on their Instagram. “And those two little cat eyes are actually a pair of windows to the place where magic happens: there are more melodies in that head than anyone can invent in ten lives,” they concluded.
Two women have led La Oreja de Van Gogh, which released its first album, tell the sunin 1998. Both said goodbye in the same way, with separate statements in which everything, apparently, seemed to be decided with the greatest of cordiality. Amaia Montero returned to the San Sebastian group again on October 15, after months of rumors since Leire Martínez (Rentería, Guipúzcoa, 45 years old), voice of the group for 17 years, was abruptly fired a year earlier. And it was precisely this New Year’s Eve when they released their first song together since 2008, We’re all dancing to the same song. They did it in a performance from the Miramar Palace in San Sebastián, which was broadcast on La 1 as part of the special program The house of music.
For the tour they are doing this year to celebrate the album’s 25th anniversary Copperpot’s Journeythe band will be made up of Amaia Montero (Irun, 49 years old, vocalist), Xabi San Martín (San Sebastián, 48 years old, keyboardist), Álvaro Fuentes (Getxo, 50 years old, bassist) and Haritz Garde (San Sebastián, 49 years old, drummer). In the dozens of concerts they will offer in Spain they will not feature the guitarist and founder Pablo Benegas (San Sebastián, 49 years old): “I am not leaving the group, but I am not going to accompany them at this stage,” Benegas informed this newspaper a few months ago. “One of the most exciting years of our lives begins and sharing it with all of you is going to be legendary,” the band published a few days ago on their networks.