The clash between Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo briefly strayed into literature during the investiture debate yesterday when both exchanged a tug-of-war over a quote from Antonio Machado. The presidential candidate paraphrased the poet with the quote “Today is always still” and later the opposition leader disgraced him for not finishing the quote. “And now, now is the time to fulfill the promises we made to each other,” Feijóo said.
But in the counter-reply of the PSOE candidate, he assured that the phrase added by Feijóo is not from Machado, but is an addition by the Madrid singer-songwriter Ismael Serrano, as the latter recalled on his social networks a few moments after the intervention of the leader of the PP in the Congress of Deputies.
After that publication that went viral on social networks, the renowned singer-songwriter wanted to write another message responding to alleged criticism of his brother’s cooperation in his artistic work. “I have also read somewhere that someone was picking on me because one of my most important works was not written by me but by my brother. Which fills me with pride,” he wrote.
In another tweet that follows the previous one, Serrano sent a dart for the presenter Ana Rosa Quintana. Offering explanations about why his brother had helped him in his musical creation, the singer defends that “it is something that usually happens to great media and artistic stars, that their most excellent works are signed by a family member. It is something that we take into account. common Ana Rosa Quintana and I, for example”.
Ismael Serrano is a Spanish singer-songwriter from the new generation of singer-songwriters who appeared in the nineties. He collects influences from Serrat, Aute, Joaquín Sabina and Silvio Rodríguez, as well as poets such as Luis García Montero, Mario Benedetti and Antonio Machado. Since 1997 he has been releasing albums, a total of 18, until this year, when he released The Song of Our Life.
