“I didn’t change, I didn’t change, I didn’t change,” Yurena sang back in the year 2000, when she was still Tamara and without warning she became an icon of pop culture in Spain. However, that of Santurce has changed, and a lot. A life full of mysteries and controversies, of which she has spoken on many occasions.
However, he has rarely spoken about his past. Beyond telling that she suffered bullying in her childhood, few know that the Basque had another job before becoming an artist, which has generated many doubts among her detractors. For this reason, Yurena herself has decided to show graphic evidence on Instagram, revealing not only what she did, but also sharing some images of her from her youth, previously unpublished.
“This that I publish has never been shown anywhere before. As I have said in some interviews, I was an English teacher, something that some collaborators and ‘journalists’ from some other television program said was a lie; well, here there is irrefutable proof that I did study and pass the five English courses at the language school in Deusto (Bilbao), “says the Biscayan, showing her documents.
“I worked as a teacher for almost two years, just before I began to dedicate myself entirely to music,” adds the artist, trusting that, showing these graphic tests, in which you can also see her peculiar outfits, in keeping with the time ; both her academic training and the fact that she practiced a profession before being the artist she is today is no longer questioned.
“There are still those who have such a hard face or perhaps ignorance, to question it. Well, I annoyed them or despite whoever, yes; I was an English teacher. How daring is ignorance!”, sentence.
Thus, Yurena -whose real name is MarÃa del Mar Cuena Seisdedos- shows everyone that yes, she did have a real job before leaving everything and going to Madrid to fulfill her dream: to be an artist.
Although she is humorous now, the critics were not always so well accepted by the interpreter of hits like A por ti. The ridicule and harassment of her detractors turned the artist into a broken toy. Her return to her television a few years ago meant a start over for her, but the death of her mother, Margarita Seisdedos, left her emotionally sunk again.
“I couldn’t stand the bullying of the first few years. They kicked my parents. I wanted to disappear. My mother found me unconscious after taking two bottles of pills,” he told Lecturas magazine in 2017, revealing that he had tried to remove his twice, as a result of that harassment. “The damage they did to my mother is the most painful thing in my life. She cried and suffered a lot. She was a courageous mother and they called her everything.”
To end her pain, the singer put up for sale a villa in the Salamanca town of Villarino, her mother’s hometown, for 29,000 euros, last February. Without a doubt, a home loaded with memories and sentimental value for her.
Currently, the artist continues with her music. The last time we could see her was at the wedding of the architect JoaquÃn Torres and Raúl Prieto, where she went as a guest artist along with two of her great friends, Malena Gracia and Yola Berrocal.
