Marina Carmona is the granddaughter of Juan Habichuela, daughter of Antonio Carmona and Mariola Orellana, sister of Lucía Fernanda and she could not and did not want to escape the call of her genes. Her first image of herself singing—not in sepia but in color because she’s 30—is just as sweet: “My earliest memory is of a Christmas party. My father asked me to sing something and my voice came out like a trickle, so shy, and I sang almost into his ear. I remember a very nice sensation, of protection. I think I sang to my father.”
La gata bajo la lluvia, Mariposas, A quien maldigo, Sin baggage… are some of the singles we met her for and while she is giving the last blow to her first album, she has just released La historia de un amor, recorded in the Ateneo de Madrid: “I have treated the song with great respect to bring it completely to my land. I really like fusing flamenco with French music, it’s very elegant. Uniting that strength with the delicacy of the ‘chanson’ seemed wonderful to me and embracing the union of more modern sounds and gospel voices. That combination and the musical direction of Víctor Martínez achieved a result that makes the hair stand on end”.
Víctor Martínez is her partner. She met him at the Tiny Desk concert circuit rehearsals, promoted by the American platform NPR and where she called C. Tangana to join her father and Kiko Veneno, among others. After a bitter experience with a certain unnamed boyfriend, she discovered the kind side of love: “I learned that the most important thing is that in this life we ??come and go alone and the best thing I can do is find a life partner, not be emotionally dependent on anyone . That made me stronger, it also made me the woman I am now and understand love in a different way too. That passionate way that we have to love sometimes graduates and you are grateful to have a person who gives you peace, affection and emotional stability.
That very bitter experience – that ex abandoned her for another and by e-mail shortly before final exams – happened in 2016, when Marina changed Journalism at Complutense for music education at Miami Dade College: “I went to the United States United a bit to look for myself and I found that what made me enjoy the most in the world was being on stage and to this day, I have never felt anything like it. It gave me a lot of vertigo to leave but sometime you have to be the first to face yourself. I come from a house where there have always been many friends, noise, always passing through, and there I had to find myself in solitude, find myself in a different way, and that made me stronger. It made me grow.”
Composer and singer of an outstanding saga, she believes that she is the perfect mix of her parents, the representative Mariola Orellana and the musician Antonio Carmona, founder of Ketama: “From my mother I carry perseverance and stubbornness, being constant and disciplined with my work and from my father I have sensitivity and love for music. Many times it happens that I am a heart with legs and the serenity of my mother is good for me to put on my shields, because we are also facing a profession in which there are many wolves”.
