What it is to be the “double” of Michael Jackson, his encounter with the star and the day Harrison Ford confused him

Sitting in the Lobby of a Hotel in Barrio Norte, wrapped in its “suit of Michael Jackson”, From afar he misleads. Amazes by his physical resemblance to the extinct “King of Pop”deceased on June 25, 2009.

The similarity with the star is notorious, to the point that it generates some concern. His press campaign, and himself, argue that it was the “Chosen” by Jackson’s familygiven the reverential disposition and, undoubtedly, the symmetry of factions.

“Hello, how are you?” He greets cordially and some shyness, and his accent quickly installs the interlocutor in the character’s native Barcelona. Sergio Cortés It is as Catalan as the Boquería market, little similar to Gary, the city of Indiana where the creator of “Thriller” was born.

Visiting Buenos Aires, once again, Cortés will be presented on April 25 at the Great Porteño Rex with his show The Michael Jackson Experienceshow that will also be offered in Mar del Plata, Comodoro Rivadavia, Córdoba, Neuquén, San Juan, Tucumán, Mendoza and Rosario; But, taking advantage of his arrival at the Southern Cone, he will also go around Chile.

Ask for a “warm” coffee and prepares to chat well traditional, but with the black Lacia wig that hides its “ponytail” and its natural curls. Swears and perjura that the face was not operated to bring traits, although it is hard to believe. Of course, the makeup work is exhaustive.

Two meters away, the radiographic similarity does not extinguish. And, on stage, he argues that everything that is heard is interpreted by him.

“I am very happy to be here, I think it is the fourth time I come to Buenos Aires, from the first trip of 2017,” the singer and dancer collects data. “I missed this city, the previous experiences were very pretty, all of Argentina I love and people are very delivered.”

-Well airs has very Spanish corners and there is a Buenos Aires idiosyncrasy that, immigration through, in some aspects, is also something Catalan.

-I feel at home, it makes me very excited.

-How is your show?

-It is a live concert that lasts two hours, with sensational musicians and dancers and a staging that recreates the “King of Pop.”

-Can you?

-Yes of course, Always sing live. It is a concert with a lot of love, with respect for the artist I represent and for the encounter with the people.

-Imagino who, since Jackson’s death, the concert will have won in emotionality.

-It’s otherwise. when he died in 2009, I left the show. He was not able. Everyone called me, but it hurt me to use that sad moment to work. I needed to take a time of grieving to recompose myself. I also didn’t know if I was going to have the strength to get on stage again.

-When did you retake your activity?

-A 2012; I needed a long time. And, when I came back, I wanted to support myself in a great team that had the same illusion. I remember that, at that time, fans clubs opened accounts on social networks asking Sergio to return to the stage. That helped me.

-How do you define?

-Don’t know. I do everything with love. I can tell you that, when I get on stage, I open my chest and my heart, with a lot of love up, knowing what it means to the public, with great responsibility for fans and for the “King of Pop.” I feel I do magic.

-What as a medium?

-A medium, yes.

-Did you experience any kind of sensation that you consider to go beyond earthly reason?

-I have always felt like this. Always, somehow, something has happened. Even in hard times for me, where I wanted to take distance, there has been something that has brought me again, almost against my will.

Sergio Cortés Remember that, despite the request of the fans, it has been a friend who motorized his return to the ring, after the death of the interpreter of “The Way You Make Me Feel”. It was that friend who opened a Facebook account where he disclosed images of Cortés’ concerts and claimed his return to the artistic scene.

“I got very angry, but, at the same time, he suffered an accident and was in a coma for a month. That generated great discomfort in me, a bad taste for having angry at a nonsense, since I wanted to do a good. So I made a promise.”

-A promise?

-I said: “If you open my eyes I will return to the stage to do all that you told me.” A month I woke up and I fulfilled. Moreover, whenever I have been able to take it with me, I have taken it. After all, I needed to return to the show, but I was not able to do it for myself. It has had to be so, so I say there are signs.

-What other “signals” do you perceive?

–On stage I feel like a hug with giant arms. It seems a little crazy, but it happened to me that I feel like I am not quite in that place, as I do not recognize the voice that comes out, as if it were a link. Before going on stage I ask you Michael Help me to make it beautiful as he would like and as the public wants.

-In your daily life, do you stop “being”?

-Of course, I always feel me. Normally I am not characterized, I am with jeans and a sparrow, without makeup. I always see me. In front of the mirror I see Sergio, even when I am characterized by Michael Jacksonbut it’s me.

-Don’t you suffer an identity problem?

-Not at all, I have never done surgery And I started in a casual way to my sixteen years, due to my resemblance. I was very shy and I had never done anything that had to do with the show, I started by the image, that pushed me.

-How was it?

-When the “Bad” video came out, with a Michael More “blanquito”, I did the Superior school in the afternoon and, during the mornings, I dedicated myself to drawing comics for a German company. When that clip was released, I was a teenager like those of the time, a little rebellious, dressed in black, with straps hanging and somewhat heavy metal hair. That day, after knowing “Bad”, I left school and people told me on “Michael Jackson” street. I didn’t understand anything. Casualities of life; That week, I met a journalist who also noticed a similarity and offered me, if I was able to characterize myself as the singer, do an interview. “Ok,” I said. It seemed interesting, fun.

Cortés began to listen to the art of Michael Jackson At five years, driven by the influence of his older brothers. “I always admired it.” Finally, that interview in the magazine Lectures He catapulted him to a new way of life that paired the ceremony towards the artist with a work way out.

After the week of having published the report, the chronicler told him to Cortés That a Swiss company, which carried out the production of the perfume with the brand of the star of international music, had asked for its contact. In a matter of hours, the young Catalan was characterized in the midst of the fragrance presentations.

The events followed and he enjoyed the rubbing with the most outstanding personalities of Spanish social life and the world of music. “I met a Mecano And that was the most. ”

Some time later, those presentations were added to the music of Jacksonwhich now implied that Sergio Cortés He had to demonstrate his ability to dance. “He was very shy, he didn’t even participate in the acts of the school, he was not able, but the music of Michael Jackson I pushed me, although, before going out to face the public my head hurt. ”

-How does singing come to your life?

-When I danced, Michael Jackson’s voice reminded me of my own voicethen that drove me to study singing with an Argentine. So I began to sing, one thing took me to the other.

-What did your family think?

-They were a little scared. He was very small. Even, at seventeen I went to New York for a week to do a job.

He begins to review his own anecdotes and the first has to do with that initiatory trip: “In New York, when I met Harrison Ford, He confused me with Michael Jackson “.

As he explains, returning from an event at Central Park, he ran into the famous actor in front of a traffic light. Before crossing the street, the actor of Apocalypse Now He looked at him and said “Michael.” In seconds, a limousine stopped in front of them, someone opened a window and shouted: “Here is Michael Jackson”.

“The curious thing is that no one noticed that, next to me, it was Harrison Ford. The tumult that armed, that he ran to one side and I for the other, followed by a crowd was such. I spent days locked at the hotel. ”

-How did you find out about the singer’s death?

-In my house, drinking coffee and watching television. It was a “massazo.” I could not believe it, it is one of those people that one thinks they are not going to die.

-Did you know about your existence and your “double” activity?

-Of course, from the beginning.

-Did you authorize it quickly?

-The people who carried out their perfume kept him informed about my presence. It was always said that it would come to some of the presentations of the product, but it never happened. When he married Lisa Marie Presley My Italian agent contacted me, who had been head of bodyguards of Eros Ramazzottito tell me that They had summoned us to mislead the press, while Michael married in secret. It was very strong, a great weight, a responsibility.

Cortés He says that “the Elvis Presley museum was rented and took it to Marbella, where the rumor that Michael and Liza Marie were going to go to visit him. An operation was armed with patrols and I was in a convertible greeting people. Alma, I created tension that everyone believed it was Michael Jackson. I even had to sing a song in front of the media that had gathered there. Finally, after the wedding, he said he had married. The cake was over and everything went well. ”

-Do you deal with your family?

-I have a relationship with Keith Jacksoncousin of Michael. He even recorded a video where he thanked my work on behalf of his family.

-When there were judicial complaints against the idol of course child abuse, was your work affected?

-Well, many people believed and didn’t want to know anything with Michael Jacksonor hear about him.

-Did you know him personally?

-In 1997, in Zaragoza, he greeted people through a hotel window where he was housed.

-Did you know?

-Allí presented it to me. I didn’t say anything, I didn’t talk, I was blocked. It was gentle. Every so often, he appeared to greet people and, at times, I did it. It was a game. The next day, We were alone in a room, stood in front of me and looked at me fixed. He and me. I didn’t know where to get. I did not dare to say anything, I had no strength, I felt intimidated, he kept looking at me. They were about twenty minutes. I couldn’t leave, but I couldn’t be still and I didn’t know what to say. In a moment, he greeted my head and left.

-How would you define yourself? Do you feel an imitator?

–I consider myself a doublesomeone who physically resembles Michael Jackson And it represents it.