Nebulossa has become Spain’s revelation to represent the country in Eurovision. The Valencian duo won this year’s Benidorm Fest with Zorra, a feminist anthem that seeks to empower and appropriate a word that has always been used as an insult and derogatory. The lyrics of the song talk about it at length, but what few people knew was the inspiration that led Maria Bas and Mark Dasousa to compose it.
This is none other than Manuela Trasobares, who became the first trans councilor in the history of Spain. The native of Figueres, currently residing in the Castellón town of Geldo, had been a prominent television figure in the 90s, who ended up gradually disappearing from the screens. This Monday afternoon, however, she returned to the cameras in TardeAR with Ana Rosa Quintana.
Trasobares was born in 1962 and graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. He has dedicated himself to lyrical singing, painting, sculpture, creating fallas and even politics in Valencia throughout his extensive career. In 2007 she became a councilor for Geldo thanks to a total of 71 votes, which represented 14% of the census. However, her most iconic moment occurred in 1997, with a glass cup involved.
It was in the program Parle vosté, calle vosté on Channel 9, when the Catalan artist revealed prejudices against women. “Why can’t a woman dress with all her lust, why can’t she talk about sex, why? Why should we hold back? For so many years, the repression, the mask… What do I have to dress up as now? “She asked, before throwing a glass onto the floor of the set, breaking it into a thousand pieces.
This moment was honored twice in Zorra, first with the scene recreated in the video clip and later with the cry of Maria Bas, after finishing performing the song in the final of the Benidorm Fest: “Throw the cup, throw the cup !” Trasobares was grateful in her interview in TardeAR, with a striking staging that included platform boots, large sunglasses and a mask with large anime-style eyes.
During her speech, the multifaceted figure praised Nebulossa and the message she wanted to convey with the song: “Zorra is not synonymous with prostitute, it is synonymous with a very ugly thing: bad whore. The word slut has very pejorative connotations, and what woman at some point in her life has not been called a slut? Likewise, she was able to express how she arrived at the town hall of her town, wanting to run for mayor for a Republican party.
