Marina Carmona is the granddaughter of Juan el 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. The first image of her singing – not in sepia, but in color, she is 30 years old – is so tender: “My oldest memory is at a Christmas party. My father asked me to sing something and my voice came out like a thread, so shy, and I sang almost by ear. I remember a very beautiful feeling, of protection. I think I sang to my father.” La gata bajo la lluvia, among others, are some of his previous singles, and while he is putting the finishing touches on the first album – a mixture of rhythm and blues and bossa nova -, he has just released La historia de un amor , recorded at the Ateneo de Madrid: “I have treated the song with great respect to bring it completely to my field. I really like fusing flamenco with French music, it’s very elegant. To unite this strength with the delicacy of the chansonem seemed wonderful, and to embrace the union with more modern sounds and gospel voices. This combination and the musical direction of Víctor Martínez achieved a hair-raising result”.
Víctor Martínez is his partner. She met him at the rehearsals of the Tiny Desk concert circuit, promoted by the American platform NPR, where she was invited by C. Tangana to join her father and Kiko Veneno. After a bitter experience, he discovered the kind side of love: “I learned that the most important thing is that in this life we ??all come and go alone, and the best thing I can do is find a companion of life and not be emotionally dependent on anyone. This made me stronger, it also made me the woman I am now and it also made me understand love in a different way. This passionate way we love sometimes gradually fades and you appreciate having a person who gives you peace, affection and emotional stability”. This huge disappointment – ??the ex left her by email and another shortly before the final exams – happened in 2016, when the Navy changed Complutense Journalism to music education at Miami Dade College: I went to the United States to find myself a little and I discovered that the thing that made me enjoy the most in the world was being on a stage. Today I have never heard anything like it. It made me very giddy to leave, but at some point she must be the first to face herself. I come from a home where there have always been many friends, noise, people passing by, and I had to find myself there in solitude, to look for myself in a different way, and that made me stronger. It made me grow.”
Composer and singer of excellent lineage, 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 have perseverance and stubbornness, to be constant and disciplined with my work, and my father’s sensitivity and love for music. Many times I am a heart with legs and I like the serenity of my mother to put my shields on me, because we are facing a profession in which there are many wolves”.
