121 is a palindrome number that has caught the attention of Miki Núñez. The singer who rose to fame with Operación Triunfo , represented Spain in Eurovision and whose image has become popular in Catalonia thanks to the TV3 talent show Eufòria , has chosen it from among the infinity of numbers that exist to title his new album. And he has not done it because of his peculiar palpicuous reading, but because browsing Google he came across information that caught his attention.
“Scientists had found that chemical love only lasts 121 days,” he explains. And he, who believes that the heart ends up prevailing over the neuronal and hormonal reactions that science studies, decided to borrow this figure.
“Love is the most important engine there is and we would all be happier if love moved us,” he says. That is why she has opted to sing it in different ways and through a variety of rhythms, signing an album of twelve catchy and happy songs that she composed over the last two and a half years. “It has a lot of me, it is my essence,” she considers.
The first song on the album also has a leading number, 10 minutes, which, he confesses, is the maximum time he needs to fall in love, just as he did with his partner. For a few years he has shared his life and work with Sara Roy, a singer-songwriter like him, who became known as a child as a member of the Macedònia ensemble. “It was love at first sight,” he details. “He was my platonic love when I was a teenager and we met at Rialp’s biggest party before he entered Operación Triunfo,” he recalls. “We follow each other on Instagram and when we left the Academy we started talking.” Until now.
“I am very much in love and we have a monogamous, closed and super traditional relationship.” They live together with Blue the dog and Bombo the rabbit and share a computer, guitar, microphone at home… “We share everything, life and music,” she says. And that’s how they both collaborate on each other’s songs. “Half of this record has Sara’s help, and half of hers, mine,” she reveals.
He does not hesitate to consider himself a person with Luck, the title of another of the album’s songs. The chorus says “I know we’ve been lucky”, but that luck doesn’t come out of nowhere. “I’ve been studying music since I was four years old, I haven’t sat on the couch for a day until I’ve achieved what I wanted, and I don’t want to stop.” What does he aspire to at 27? “I don’t want a Ferrari or a helicopter, I want to be happy with what I have and be able to help people around me if they need it.”
On June 30 he begins a tour at the Sant Jordi Club in Barcelona that will take him all over Spain, ready for his summer album to become one of the most danced in these hot months. He also wants the director of Eufòria Tono Hernández to count on him for a third season of the talent show preceded by the return of Operación Triunfo. Deciding between one program or another would be for him like choosing between a father or a mother: “OT gave me the opportunity to place myself in the music scene and Eufòria, to be able to present”. In both cases, he celebrates that “opportunities are given to those who dream of being a musician.”
Regarding the controversial claim for plagiarism that Toni Cruz and Josep Maria Mainat, creators of Operación Triunfo, have filed against Eufòria, Núñez is clear: the base is the same, a contest of singers who are being eliminated, like many others, “but there are many differences”, assures the one who thoroughly masters the two formats.
The singer is also a good connoisseur of Eurovision after his time as representative of Spain in 2019. “It is very hard, you prepare a song for seven months and you only see three minutes,” he laments while defending the participation of Blanca Paloma in the latest edition. Of course, he recognizes that Spain is escaping to find the formula that will lead it to victory. Would she do it again? “I never say no”, he affirms with that positive energy that characterizes him and that drives him to enjoy life with the best of smiles. And, of course, transmitting a lot of love.
