The singer Ana Mena remember this saturday COPE Weekend his beginnings in the world of music and theater and had moving words for his past in Channel On, Andalusian television, as well as on Telemadrid. The artist, originally from the Málaga town of Estepona, unveiled Rosa Rosado how he lived his meeting with the director Pedro Almodóvar, with whom he worked when he was only 13 years old.
“I started singing very early, I don’t know when because I always remember myself as a singer, 7 years old I thinkThe singer commented on the weekend program this Saturday. After participating in the Sanremo Song Festivalthe artist recognizes that his mother instilled in him the love of music and his father, the Italian: “I have loved Italian music very much since I was a child, and my mother transmitted to me the fact of singing because she was a flamenco singer and my father always played music of all kinds for me, and in the end I feel a special attraction for the Italian”.
Ana Mena’s debut in Canal Sur
And it is that, as she herself remembers, her musical career began when she was only 7 years old, in the program ‘Menuda Noche’ on Canal Sur, presented by Juan y Medio. “Forward in the I see I see”Mena clarified, referring to the talent show of telemadrid presented by Teresa Rabal. But if something marked his debut, it was the singer Marisol, also from Malaga.
“It was one of the most unforgettable experiences I have ever had in my life. I was 11 years old, I had never been an actress and reaching a team of 100 people without knowing what a brand was, without looking at the camera, learning a script, responding to colleagues…“, he explains in Week-end. “I remember it very well, also that Marisol is an artist who marked a before and after in Spain, I had a collection of her films on VHS, I wanted to be her.”
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His meeting with Pedro Almodóvar at the age of 13
Another of the anecdotes that Rosa Rosado wanted to remember with Ana Mena was the small role she played in Pedro Almodóvar’s film, “The skin in which I live”, in which she had to sing one of the songs of The original band. “It was amazing, I remember the casting process, which was super curious because They sent me a song in Portuguese, which I didn’t know, but I learned it phonetically, as if I were a parrot“commented the artist, who had to participate in the production of the film when she was only 13 years old.
About the soundtrack, Mena recalls that they recorded it at the famous composer Alberto Iglesias: “I was super cut, very nervous.” But if something marked her, it was when she had to meet the director of the film: “Later, they called me to Pedro Almodóvar’s office, and he told me to sing it to him live, he who was having lunch at his table., and I came in and sang to her. From that day, we started everything.
An anecdote that she still remembers with astonishment and pabulum, as she admits herself: “It was very nice, until I was on the set I was not aware of what I was doing, to this day I don’t even know, I was very shocked.”