Marina Carmona is the granddaughter of Juan el Habichuela, daughter of Antonio Carmona and Mariola Orellana, sister of Lucía Fernanda and neither could nor wanted to escape the call of her genes. The first image of herself singing – not in sepia, but in colour, she is 30 years old – is this sweet: “My earliest memory is of a Christmas party. My father asked me to sing something and my voice came out like a trickle, so shy, and I sang almost into his ear. I remember a very nice sensation, of protection. I think I sang to my father."
La gata bajo la lluvia… These are some of her previous singles, and while she gives the last blow to her first album –miscegenation in which we will find R
Víctor Martínez is her partner. She met him at the Tiny Desk concert circuit rehearsals, promoted by the American platform NPR, where she was invited by C. Tangana to join her father and Kiko Veneno. After a bitter experience, she discovered the kind side of love: “I learned that the most important thing is that in this life we come and go alone and the best thing I can do is find a life partner and not be emotionally dependent on anyone. That made me stronger, it also made me the woman I am now and understand love in a different way too. That passionate way that we have to love sometimes graduates and you are grateful to have a person who gives you peace, affection and emotional stability.
That brutal disappointment – that ex abandoned her by e-mail and by another shortly before final exams – happened in 2016, when Marina changed Journalism at Complutense for music education at Miami Dade College: “I went to the United States a bit to look for myself and I discovered that what made me enjoy the most in the world was being on stage. To this day, I have never felt anything like it. It gave me a lot of vertigo to leave, but sometime you have to be the first to face yourself. I come from a house where there have always been many friends, noise, people passing through, and there I must have found myself in solitude, looking for myself in a different way, and that made me stronger. It made me grow."
Composer and singer of an outstanding saga, she believes that she is the perfect mix of her parents, the representative Mariola Orellana and the musician Antonio Carmona, founder of Ketama: "From my mother I carry perseverance and stubbornness, being constant and disciplined with my work , and from my father I have sensitivity and love for music. Many times I am a heart with legs and the serenity of my mother is good for me to put on my shields, because we are facing a profession in which there are many wolves”.
