If the presence of Amaia Montero Karol G’s second concert at the Santiago Bernabéu already sparked rumors of the singer’s return to Van Gogh’s Ear the breakup of the band with its singer for the last 17 years, Leire Martínez announced today has done nothing but fire them. As if it were a puzzle: if Leire leaves the San Sebastian group, the piece that fits back into that gap is the one she replaced in 2008.
However, events seem to be going in another direction. There will be a return of Amaia Montero, yes, but it will be alone. According to sources from the sector consulted by EL MUNDO, the former vocalist of La Oreja de Van Gogh He is preparing a new album with Sony, his usual record label.after six years without recording – his last work, Born to believedates from 2018-. Although there is still no song release schedule, much less the album, the Basque singer is already in the studio shaping her project to return to the stage. There are several songs that have already been outlined and Montero’s work continues.
This move would close the door to the rumors that have been going on for months placing the Gipuzkoan singer back in Van Gogh’s La Oreja. The members of the group themselves already ruled out the reunion after Amaia’s public reappearance with Karol G in July, after overcoming her mental health problems. A rumor mill that has returned to the scene with the departure of Leire Martínez announced yesterday morning by the band through a statement made public on their social networks.
That text pointed out that the members of La Oreja de Van Gogh have gone through “a lot of time of reflection and deep conversations” in recent times about the future that the project should take, just when they are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the album that catapulted them as one of the sensations of Spanish pop, Copperpot’s Journey. «We have not managed to bring together our different ways of living the group“, was detailed in the statement, which described as a “fascinating stage” what they have experienced in the last 17 years with Leire Martínez as vocalist. «[Esta etapa] We will carry it in our hearts, it has allowed us to enjoy the best profession in the world in a dream way.
Thus, the separation of the members of the group, composed of Xabi San Martín, Pablo Benegas, Alvaro Fuertes y Oak Gardeand its singer, Leire Martínez, once the tour that has taken the band throughout Spain in recent months has concluded. In fact, an image of the Gipuzkoan vocalist crying during the last concert of that tour, in Zaragoza, last week coinciding with the El Pilar celebrations, has gone viral in the last few hours, just before the separation became official. . Martínez became emotional during the performance of the song Rosaswhich coincidentally is one of the great hits of Amaia Montero’s era, in what will finally be her last presence on stage as vocalist of La Oreja de Van Gogh.
Regarding the future of the band, even before the departure of Leire Martínez, the presence of former vocalist Amaia Montero has always hovered over it. And his surprise appearance at Karol G’s concert at the Santiago Bernabéu only fueled the issue. To the point that one of the founders of the group, Pablo Benegas, coinciding last summer with the promotion of his book Memoria, had to come out to deny the reunion of the original members. «Our relationship with Amaia is fantastic, wonderful, but she has her solo career», he responded in an interview with this newspaper on June 22 when asked about a short-term reunion.
Leire Martínez herself also showed her discomfort in an intervention on September 17 on Navarra television, less than a month ago. «I don’t like disrespect. It doesn’t matter to me that it is said that Amaia returns to the group, it doesn’t affect me at all. What I don’t like is that people ignore me when that is said,” detailed the hitherto singer of La Oreja de Van Gogh when asked about a hypothetical return of Montero. «Everyone forgets that there is a singer in the group, who has been there for 16 years. I find it ugly that it seems like nothing matters», he finished
This newspaper has contacted the band’s representative office and they refer to the statement that has been made public through social networks, declining to make further statements. Thus, for the moment, La Oreja de Van Gogh is left without a vocalist waiting for someone to take over.. What seemed like a gesture of emotion from Leire Martínez at the closing of the tour in Zaragoza has returned the group to the center of the national musical scene. And not because of his music.