Pastora Soler has once again found herself in the media spotlight, this time not because of her music, but because of a confession as harsh as it is revealing. The Sevillian artist, one of the most beloved voices of the national scene, has presented her new book Cuando se apagan las luces, aparecen las estrellas, a work in which she reviews the brightest and also the darkest moments of her professional and personal career.
During her visit to the program Y ahora Sonsolesthe singer had a sincere and moving conversation with Sonsoles Ónega, in which she revealed some of the most difficult episodes she experienced under the tutelage of her first manager, Luis Sanz. The man who discovered her talent and helped her take her first steps in music was also, according to her words, the one who most marked her emotionally during her youth.
“It was my chance. I was with him for ten years, from 15 to 25.”
Pastora Soler recalled her beginnings with a mixture of gratitude and pain. “When I met him, it was the dream of my life, it was my opportunity. I was with him for ten years, from 15 to 25, a complicated age. “, recounted the artist in the program. “I have always been overcome by the gratitude that it was the person who gave me a hand and put me on the path, to whom I owe everything. There must be that person who believes in you “.
During that decade, Soler lived under constant pressure. As she explained, Sanz not only directed her career, but controlled her life in every way. “It was ten years when I was a child. It’s not 15 years now. I’ve come out of it too well not to have had an eating disorder. “, he admitted firmly.
“For him there was never anything good. Not the nose, not the mouth, what if she was fat…”
The singer explained how her manager’s extreme perfectionism ended up damaging her self-esteem. “He wanted me to be perfect, he instilled in me many good things like discipline and respect for the public,” she acknowledged. However, that constant demand crossed all limits.
“For him there was never anything good. Not the nose, not the mouth, what if she was fat? It was all about highlighting the bad. “, confessed the artist, visibly moved. “That for so long crushes you and creates a series of complexes and insecurities. But I have realized that I was stronger than I thought because I endured it and at a certain moment I imposed my criterion. “.
“My mother was very pliable and went along with everything he said.”
The singer also referred to the role of her family in those years. She acknowledged that neither she nor her entourage knew how to cope with the control exercised by her manager over her life. “My mother was very pliable and went along with everything he said. We were both very taken in by him. I had a dream “he recounted with sincerity.
One of the episodes that marked her the most was the veto she suffered in her adolescence: “My parents wouldn’t let me go on the COU end-of-year trip to Italy with my classmates because my manager didn’t want me to. I stayed on the ground. Those things mark you, you don’t forget them. “She explained, recalling the isolation and loss of experiences she lived through in her youth.
These statements allow us to understand the degree of control that Sanz exercised over the young artist, not only in her professional career, but also in her daily life. A level of dependence that, as Soler acknowledged, took her years to overcome.
“He made up that Morante de la Puebla was my boyfriend.”
Pastora Soler’s account took an even more shocking turn when she confessed that her ex-representative even manipulated her sentimental life in order to attract media attention. “He even invented that Morante de la Puebla was my boyfriend, when I already had a boyfriend and the only real thing was that we had gone out for drinks with Morante in Matalascañas. He saw a vein and the press echoed it. “he stated bluntly.
