Melody had to be treated at Benidorm Hospital before acting: “I was quite scared”

A day before singing in the second semifinal of Benidorm Fest, Melody ended the day at the hospital. He did not tell then and either after Thursday’s gala, where an acute one played a bad pass and took almost all the headlines of the night. He tells now, when he already has the statuette in his hand that accredits her as representative of Spain at the next Eurovision Festival.

“I was malita. I wasn’t good and I went to attend me because my chest hurt and I couldn’t breathe“The Sevillian artist told the day after her triumph.”I was with oxygen and maskbut I didn’t mean anything because, yes or yes, I knew I was going to be on stage and I didn’t want to worry anyone. “

In any case, Melody acknowledges that it had a bad time. “I got quite scared”. “There have been many months of preparation and when anything happens of this type, you collapse everything,” he confesses now, satisfied to have “maintained the very strong guy.” “Sometimes these things happen and the important thing is to get it forward,” he adds. And he did, because on Thursday he got the pass for the final and on Saturday he took the ‘bronze microphone’ of Benidorm Fest.

That health problem was not what caused the tragic acute that went viral on Thursday. That was due to a technical failure of Benidorm Fest that left him without audio twice. “I am prepared to sing with pneumoniaand I have done it. I have eaten one of brown on stage That the other day is bread with chocolate, “he explains.” For an artist to make a high note is not difficult. On Thursday there were failures and cuts and it could not be done, but yesterday (in the final) there was no problem, he remembers the performance that gave him the victory with broad support from the public. On audio failures, he did not complain on Thursday or do it now. “I haven’t got angry or get angry, because I don’t want to wrinkle,” he jokes.

An ‘old’ song for Eurovision?

Melody prevailed in the Benidorm Fest final thanks to the support of the audience, because it achieved 39% of the popular votes. The jury, however, placed it in third position. “One cannot pretend to like everyone, but what cannot be denied is that I am a very fighter artist and you know that I will give everything,” he says about his new role as a representative of Spain in Eurovision. “I want the bar of our country to be very high. I feel prepared for it and I face it with great desire, illusion and respect, because I love art and music.”

Despite that overwhelming public support, there are many Eurofans They are unhappy with Melody’s choice because it is not a current or commercial proposal, as were J Kbello or Daniela Blasco. “Everyone has to have their opinion. Sometimes the songs are very criticized for being old. Sorry? But if the best songs that sound now are those before, “he claims.” I could have done any type of song, go to easy and get a commercial theme, but Eurovision deserves a hymn that lasts, not any subject. “