Naiara (Zaragoza, 1997) had her first meeting with the media yesterday after her victory in OT2023. Time to open a new stage. The until now vocalist in the Nueva Alaska orchestra has gone through the contest like a storm and to her impressive voice and stage presence she has added her tattoos and sexy clothes as a hallmark. “It didn’t cross my mind that I was going to win,” said the new winner, later confessing that “I don’t give myself the value that others give me.” The singer claimed to have still not assimilated what was happening and she defined what happened in the last 24 hours as “apotheosis.”
When she went to the casting, her only objective was to live the experience “and grow personally and professionally” and now she finds herself faced with the great opportunity to start her professional career. Her immediate goal is to continue “nutrition and training” with piano and English classes and learn to compose and produce. “Right now I am very hungry and ambitious for all this,” she insisted.
Naiara defined herself as a person who is very critical of herself, who is always in a constant struggle to want to improve herself and that although she recognizes having a gift, “how you see yourself is not the same as how they see you.” The woman from Zaragoza was as natural as ever and she attributed her success “perhaps to the fact that people have identified with me and my way of being.”
From her time at the Academy she is left with that feeling “of being isolated in a bubble” and that “in one day anything can happen to you, laugh, cry… There the days are very complete emotionally.” Although, yes, she claims to leave the program as she entered: without giving too much importance to anything, but “much more empowered.”
The winner with the highest percentage of the last editions of OT revealed that her favorite performance had been Tómame o déjame, by Mocedades, “because it was the first song I sang alone and I am very fond of it” and that the song she would have liked to perform but he didn’t have a chance is I have nothing by Whitney Houston, “of which I am a big fan; In fact, my cat is called Whitney.”
She claims to face the future without any fear “because luckily I have never had it in my life, I am very forward-thinking” and insisted on this desire to continue training because “I have not come into the world to do anything other than sing and dedicate myself to music. It’s very clear to me. “I don’t have plan B.” And what advice would today’s Naiara give to the one from the first gala? “Take it easy, that you will live everything, process and assimilate, and that everything you experience makes you who you are.”
