Like every Saturday, Socialité returned to broadcast a new program on Telecinco to review the most current issues in the world of the heart. Among many other issues, the program hosted by María Verdoy broadcast an interview with David Otero, former member of ‘El Canto del Loco’, one of the most iconic and beloved groups in our country, which disintegrated in 2009. In the interview, The artist opened up about a possible return of the group, something that fans always dream of.
The truth is that the songs from ‘El Canto del Loco’ marked an entire generation. Songs like Besos, La Madre de José or Zapatillas continue to be played at all the town festivals and now, almost fifteen years after their disintegration, fans continue to ask that their members come back together. That is why the Telecinco program did not want to miss the opportunity to ask Otero, who is the cousin of the group’s vocalist, Dani Martín.
“Well, my cousin made it very clear: ‘He’s not coming back,’ he said. I think he’s not going to come back,” explains David Otero, referring to Martín’s latest album, named that way. The artist recognizes that it would not be viable to form the group again now that the lives of all the members have taken such different paths. “We have been companions for a long time, and we have loved each other very much,” he explains.
“I believe that no one wishes anything bad to the other. Each one follows his path, and lives his life as he wants,” he explains, about the distance between the members. And a while ago, Dani Martín acknowledged in an interview for El País that there is no type of relationship between the two, despite being family. Even so, the singer of Contigo assured that he considers him “a great musician” and a “key piece” in his professional career.
“There are many people who have experienced many things with those songs, and sometimes, when you play them and change them, it seems that you are touching their memory. It is good, because it means that that part that I composed on that day, from another way, it also reached people,” he explains, about the affection he has for his time as a member of the legendary Spanish pop/rock band.
Otero admits that it was difficult for him to cope with the limbo that was generated in his career after the end of the band. “When we finished, it is true that there was a very complex transition, a lot of volume of everything, of audiences, of numbers, of people, of albums sold… there was a lot of fear, a lot of complexity and comparison,” he explains, about how he lived that moment. The musician remembers with great affection the moment in which he began to succeed with music.
“I have what I want, I like to make a living from what I do, I like to do concerts, I like to travel, but I wouldn’t change the time I spend with my family for more success, for example,” he stated, about his current moment. Otero now considers himself “zero rockstar.” On the other hand, he assures that he feels very excited, since his next album, Natural Intelligence, will be released next September.