Sílvia Marsó has a spectacular resume behind her with a long professional career that spans four decades since the Catalan began to stand out at a very young age. At the age of 18, she was part of the cast of hostesses of the mythical contest One, two, three, which in 2022 celebrated its golden anniversary since its premiere 50 years ago. In the media, Ella Marsó rose to fame thanks to the space of Chicho Ibáñez Serrador, interrupting her promising acting career, which she has later been able to develop brilliantly.
We will reach that point on a trip to the past of the now 60-year-old actress, singer and producer, but first we will rejoice in her artistic present, which draws heavily from that school in the contest presented by Mayra Gómez Kemp. And it is that there we could already see a polyhedral Sílvia Marsó, singing and dancing, roots that connect us with her current moment.
And it is that Marsó, a woman of challenges, is now the vocalist of a project called Blues
For the project he has the invaluable help of the renowned musician Danny del Toro whom he met through a mutual friend after attending a concert of his. They became good friends until one day he saw his admired actress imitating Luz Casal in the program Tu cara me suena. "It was not expected. She told me that she had a very black voice!” Marsó recalls. The artist then began to collaborate in a concert with the Del Toro Blues Band and the chemistry between them was so good that they decided to join forces to do a project together that includes a tour of Spain.
“They are songs that connect with the depths of the human being. Most of the actors like blues, tango and flamenco, because they are three musical styles that go well with drama, with pain. We actors are used to connecting with that pain to seek the beauty and freedom of the human being or to improve people's lives”, explains Silvia Marsó, who recalls how she heard her first blues songs from her grandfather, in a adolescent stage where she was also captivated by the figure of Ella Fitzgerald.
In his show there are important challenges such as putting Federico García Lorca and his poem El rey de lem to music to the rhythm of the blues: “I started to investigate and try and I realized that I had the 12 bars of the blues. And I proposed it to the band, and we did an improv. I'm sure when Federico created it he dreamed of turning it into a blues. I have made Rosita la soltera and Yerma from his works, and there are many passages of these works like this; Lorca when he wrote had music in his soul ”.
And based on her current project, Sílvia Marsó gives us some reflections. For example, why is she an actress who feels more comfortable with the dramatic genre than with comedy: “I enjoy drama more because behind it there is an actor or playwright who wanted to show something of humanity that we have to change. I like in my work that I can feel the vehicle that encourages an author's deep thought to reach the current public through my work. He is a kind of medium who justifies all the uncertainties and the fatigue of the profession, ”she reels off her.
Regarding his career, he takes stock in terms of the future: “I still have a lot to do, I want to direct theater and I would also like to write, I still have a lot to do. I have been in this profession since early childhood, but always from a deep emotional commitment, and from a rigor and honesty, and of that I am proud, it is something that I carry as my own and personal.”
Final battery of reflections. The first: "I like to challenge myself professionally, in life I am simple, normal and not at all a hero". The second in the form of a sentence: "From the age of 50 a woman has no place in the audiovisual in this country." And one last thing for lovers of Un, dos tres: “Now this type of program would no longer be possible, we have changed a lot in 30 years in Spain. Even so, I think that Chicho opted for a change in the role of women in society”. She also raises her voice, now on stage and to the rhythm of the blues, bringing out the actress that she carries inside of her.
