El Hormiguero kicks off another week with the visit of the singer Kiko Veneno, who attends the Pablo Motos program for the first time. The artist has unveiled his documentary Un día Lobo López that delves into the vital context that marked the creation of the album Échate un cantecito.
The son of a military man and a housewife, Kiko Veneno studied Philosophy and Letters and traveled through Europe and the United States, where he attended concerts by artists who have influenced him such as Frank Zappa and Bob Dylan. Songs like: Los Tontos in collaboration with C. Tangana, Grab the guitar or Our destiny sound under his name.
There are albums that mark the history of an artist and, in the case of Kiko Veneno, the album is Échate un cantecito: “This album was a before and after, the album that allowed me to live on music”, the singer assured. .
Kiko Veneno considered it as a last chance to try to earn a living with music and he succeeded: “This album was recorded in London in 1992. I was 40 years old. Before the age of forty I did not earn money from music. The record that I made at the age of 25 was a highly recognized record later, ”she has acknowledged with a smile on her face.
“No money, green fingers, we spent hours playing. It was my initiation into music. We had a great time with Raimundo but the project was not commercial at all”, the artist explained to the astonishment of Pablo Motos. “We were very lacking in everything. What we did not lack was imagination, enthusiasm and desire to play. Sometimes we spent ten or twelve hours, for the neighbor it was desperate ”, he added.
On the other hand, Kiko Veneno has explained that, surprisingly, he started playing the guitar due to hepatitis that he suffered at the age of 22: “I made a lot of progress with the guitar when I caught hepatitis. Three months in bed and yellow eyes. I put on a he plays records and a guitar that I don’t know where it came from and it was the first time I got addicted to the guitar”, he said.
The artist has opened up to Pablo Motos and has recounted how bad he had with the vertigo attacks he suffered when he was a child: “Since I was little I had vertigo attacks. You have to throw yourself to the ground and you become incapable. They gave me every two or three years and they caused me a lot of anguish,” he recalled.
However, years later, and after visiting several doctors, a doctor found the solution to Kiko Veneno’s problem: “A wonderful doctor looked at me and sent me a suppository that told me that it would take away my vertigo,” the artist recounted. .
“I was in Huelva and I had a vertigo attack and I put on the suppository and only the vertigo did not go away, but rather, I felt happiness… I thought that this was curable and that I did not have to live like this all my life” , the visibly happy artist has settled.
