New installment of the program presented by Risto Mejide and which is broadcast on Tuesdays on Cuatro. Traveling with Chester once again brings great guests to learn a little more about them from the presenter. In today’s program one of the guests has been Miguel Ríos.
The singer sat down with Risto to talk about his great career and how many of his songs have become anthems, passed down through several generations. Miguel entered the set saying that he was not bad, to which Risto added that he has done so many things but what surprised him the most was his love for rock. ”You are an 80 taco rocker,” said the presenter.
The artist told him that his entire generation, who grew up with great rock figures like Elvis Presley, needed to create their own culture and seek that modernity. ”Rock is music that you have to feel before you understand it,” Miguel said. And it is that the singer has always wanted to be like Elvis.
Risto asked him if he was against reggaeton, to which the singer said no, that times change and he is a big fan of Rosalía. ”The industry always pushes one music to supplant another,” he confessed. Miguel believes that now there is more freedom of expression when it comes to creating songs. ”Censorship is where you put yourself,” Ríos declared. He has always greatly appreciated the people who have supported him over the years.
As for whether fame has been able to change his ideals, Miguel replied that as long as he pays the Treasury. ”Paying taxes means you’ve won,” he confessed. And although public health is supported by these taxes, Miguel Ríos confessed that he has private insurance because he is already very old. ”Why?” Risto asked him. ”Older people go to the doctor a lot now… Public health should attend the same and should be endowed with all the money that it puts into the concerted one, that should not exist and I would go to the public delighted, […] but Of course, I can’t wait seven months for them to see me,” he declared.
The artist confessed that the insecurity of not making music that he likes has always given him many headaches. He remembers when he released a record and had to hear that first listen. ”Listening to a record with a company executive is torture that I wouldn’t wish on anyone,” he said. He also added that if the album was not successful, then people were not going to buy tickets to see it live.
Risto reminded him that he has released very successful records but there have been others that have not been as successful and hence the insecurity that the artist generated, of not believing himself to be good enough. The saving grace in his career was making the Hymn of Joy. When he heard the melody for the first time he was very moved. ”It is the hymn of humanity,” recounted the guest.
That record established him and gave him a lot of money. ”I didn’t care so much about money,” she recounted. ”I didn’t count money every day, if you worry about money when you have money, you’re out of your head,” she said. Risto told him that he has enjoyed complete success, and that he surely has been hooked on that feeling. ”You know the pleasure it gives you to hear your song sung by 15,000 people,” he said. As for his ego, the artist affirmed that he never affected him.
Miguel has always stood out for that humility that characterizes him, but he does boast of all the work he has done in his career. Regarding drug use, Miguel affirmed that he had his time. He highlights three drugs that were at their peak at his time, joints, amphetamines and acids. The presenter asked him if he regretted having taken them. ”No, I have never needed it at all afterwards[…]. It has been for absolutely physical reasons ”, he declared.
Risto brought up another key issue in the guest’s life, sex. Referring to the mythical phrase of ‘sex, drugs and rock and roll’. Miguel confessed that it was not bad for him but that the musicians were more attractive. He also told that he has had his partners but that he has never cheated on them. ”To be unfaithful you have to have a personality that I don’t have,” he said.
The announcement of his withdrawal was news that left everyone quite surprised. He confessed that to make one of his last albums he had to work hard to finish it. At that moment he felt liberated because he no longer had to search for songs that he couldn’t think of anymore. ”I have never been a prolific composer,” he would say.
Although he announced that he was leaving, now he is back again, because he always misses him. ”I couldn’t stand the lack of applause,” she confessed. ”For me before, singing was going to sing and then spreading out, living the life that corresponded to the age that I was doing […]. Now one of the reasons why I get up every day is because I want to continue singing,” he said.
