Great news for all fans (and of course friends) of the Basque singer: Amaia Montero returns to the stage. And she does not do it alone! The artist returns to Van Gogh’s earthe group with which he conquered Spain and half the world with hits like The beach either January 20 and with whom he is designing a tour that they will announce in the coming weeks. The program has advanced it Together: “The whole group is supporting her.”
At 47 years old, Amaia has become the authentic Phoenix that has risen from the ashes after a truly difficult time. The artist from Irún has been struggling with addiction and mental health problems for more than a decade. Her last performances, under the effects of anxiolytic substances, were highly criticized and she hit rock bottom: “I have been shaken viciously and personally. What I have suffered has been harassment, pure bullying, a massacre”, he said on one occasion. He was also affected by the continuous comments about his physique and his weight: “In this country, gaining weight is the worst thing you can do. I spent some time away preparing the album and, when I came back, everyone started talking about my physical change, my facial transformation. I’ve been attacked from all sides.”
In 2019, her father died and Amaia suffered a major crisis. The situation was so delicate that with the advice and support of her family, she decided to withdraw from the media spotlight and recover her physical and mental health, which led her to enter several specialized centers. In 2022 alarm bells went off when the artist shared a photograph on social networks in which she appeared visibly deteriorated along with a hopeless message: “If hope is the last thing to die and I haven’t lost it yet, what good is my life? Destroyed”he prayed.
The last ‘scare’ occurred in July 2023, when she was admitted to the ICU of a Madrid hospital after suffering a significant cut on her hand that required surgery. So friends like Cayetana Guillén Cuervo either Gonzalo Mirowith whom she dated for a year and a half and with whom she maintains a good friendship, they reassured everyone by assuring that it was “nothing serious.”
Return in style
The situation has improved and Amaia is much more recovered, so much so that she is preparing a return to the stage as the vocalist of Van Gogh’s Ear, as revealed by Isabel Rábago on Telemadrid. The truth is that Montero has left clues on her social networks in recent months: a few days ago she congratulated Xabier San Martin Beldarrain for his 47th birthday with the lyrics of one of his most famous songs (“I love you, I adore you and I love you again”).
He also dedicated a beautiful message to Pablo Benegaswho has just published his first book, Memory: “I feel very lucky to be part of this story, to be your friend. Now I understand that it couldn’t have been any other way to coincide in this life and write together that magical stage, discovering a world we didn’t know about to fill it with songs. I love you very much and I’m very proud of you, as is your father and all of us who love you, of that I’m sure.”
On May 27, she shared a tweet that turned social media upside down: her famous pink jacket alongside the phrase “And every day I tell myself that there’s not much left.” Fans shouted in unison: her return was near.
