The singer Jimena Amarillo (Valencia, 2001) became known during confinement. A few months during which she, as she had free time, she was able to find her own style, writing songs non-stop. Topics that reflect her, a lesbian who speaks openly but at the same time with closeness and human complicity.
Those songs gave shape to a first album Como decirte, mi amor published in 2021 and where, at a calm pace, he shared fears, loves and, above all, everyday life. Some compositions without folds, in short, that made a place for him on the national pop scene. True to his style, in the summer of last year he produced the LP While I Walk, a series of songs with a more lively rhythmic wave and a somewhat broader theme.
And now the referential LGTBIQ singer-songwriter is a few weeks away from giving life to her new album, La pena no es confortable, where she returns to her usual lyrics and themes but with a sound Modern Bed Designs as varied as it is attractive and well resolved. And before that happens, a restricted group of fans will have the opportunity to enjoy his presence and music today at Ocean Drive in Barcelona, ??as part of the third edition of the Secreto a Voces by San Miguel cycle. It is a list of concerts where the place is known but the artist is not, until the 40 tickets are sold out. Always 40. When the concert ends is when the sale of tickets for the next one opens, and when they are all sold, the artist is announced.
Today Jimena Amarillo will be armed with voice, guitar and violin, and “my drummer, my chorus girl and a dj behind”. Regarding her new songs, she assures that “I am absolutely the same, in the way I do and think. I simply think that there is a plus in the technical; Thematically it’s the same, I haven’t had a strange depression or anything, I talk about ultra-love, about lesbians… The same lyrics but more focused on the music. It has the essence of the first one but it’s a bit like a modernized medium. There will be new things at that level that she had not used until now, such as synthesizers, drums… ”.
Their songs have become small hymns in the lesbian scene and beyond, such as Cafeliko, Not even noticeable, Tangerines in the kitchen or, above all, When you no longer love me. She confesses that one of the best things about her music is that “thanks to her I discovered myself. It’s that I tell everything, the songs are like a diary”. And there are no limits because “I have no shame. And besides, since I don’t get to hide anything, I don’t get to do fancy lyrics, but rather direct, clear and how I speak”.
And her lyrics, as she admits, “are for my lesbians and my women”, and they have permeated to the point of becoming a benchmark. She acknowledges that, “in fact, it has only been recently when I have assumed that I am a reference, be it the lesbian movement or whatever, but this does not condition my speech because I am not a preacher of anything; I just make music.”
And he puts his finger on the reason for his reception: “The truth is that everything is a bit the same to me, because if people listen to me it is precisely because everything is the same to me. I always say that I shouldn’t give anything to anyone and because of my natural condition I don’t have to be one way or another, just do things well, and if not, you shut up”.
