Raphael is one of the most prominent artists in the history of music in Spain. It is estimated that in 50 years of professional career, the singer has sold more than one hundred million copies of his studio albums. In a family of artists, his daughter also had to be one. Alejandra Martos, the result of her relationship with Natalia Figueroa, has been a restorer at the Thyssen Museum for more than two decades. In a recent interview with Vanitaits, she revealed one of the hardest moments she has experienced with her family.
Natalia always had an artistic blood running inside her. As a teenager she wanted to be a dancer, but seeing that she could not become a professional, she opted for art. Apart from her work at Thyssen, Alejandra has accepted the offer of her friends Cristina and Curra to be the image of De Chávarri, a brand of bags made in Spain. In the interview with the aforementioned media, she opens up about various aspects of her life.
Precisely, he only had words of affection for his cousin Marta Chávarri, who died in July of last year at 62 years of age. Alejandra referred to her as “the kindest person who has ever existed and with the biggest heart.” “Very fun and affectionate. We have laughed a lot with her. And I also remember her with sadness. “She deserved to have been happy and she was not,” the artist declared before Vanitatis.
On the other hand, he was honest about his school years, revealing that sometimes he did not have a very good time. “At school we have suffered things. There were always those who insulted, those who laughed, those who made ugly comments. The first few times it affected you, but then I processed it in a different way,” he began by saying. “Now it’s different and you have to be very solid, very strong and have everything very clear so that they don’t knock you down. They are very dangerous ages and I tell my children that. “I don’t understand those people who, without knowing you, have such a negative feeling,” he said.
Regarding the figure of her parents, the artist assures that “they have educated us in normality, they have given us values, tools and support in what we wanted to do” and that nothing has fallen from the sky, because “I have absorbed what It is the effort, the work.” In addition, she assures that being Raphael’s daughter is “an honor.” “He is an impressive worker. And the older I get, the more I feel it. My parents are a great team and I have never felt like I had an absent father. He has always been very affectionate, but if he had to say something he said it. “My father scolded us with a look that said it all,” she said.
In the family, there was a particularly critical moment, and it was the transplant that the interpreter of My Big Night had to undergo. “It was horrible. A very difficult stage because my father was dying and we didn’t know if the transplant would come, if it would work. Tremendous. It was 21 years ago and I still remember it as a nightmare,” he said. In addition, he explains how he experienced the moment when he was given the news. “The day they called to inform them that the time had come, it just so happened that we were all at his house eating together. “I have that image recorded,” he stated.
