"It has been very difficult not only to reach to achieve the dream, it has been even more difficult to maintain the affection of the people. It has been even more difficult to make yourself respected, to make a place for yourself with your own colleagues”. These are the words with which David Bisbal (Almeria, 1979) opens the documentary feature that arrives on Movistar Plus on Tuesday. There, the artist reviews his career as he prepares for the concert celebrating his 20-year career that he offered in November 2022 in his hometown.
"The central theme of Bisbal is like someone who seems to have achieved success in an easy way, because he had to live a historic moment in the music industry as was OT, he had to face a lot of problems that others don't have, such as being seen as an intruder in an industry that stigmatized everyone who came out of OT, including someone who today is a global superstar", says the director of the documentary, Alexis Morante .
And in this look back, what do you feel about your time in OT? "Absolute love and good nostalgia. Another thing is how he feels he was treated afterwards", answers Morante. The documentary spends a lot of time on Bisbal's stage in OT "because it is a core part of his career, very important above all to tell his story: that of someone who reaches a stratospheric dream at a historic moment in a Spanish society marked by a program that did not exist before".
Why does Bisbal have that incomparable success with what other colleagues have had in different stages of OT? For two reasons, points out Morante. "His enormous talent and having his head very well equipped to ensure that his career is not cut short".
The documentary features unpublished archive footage of the author of hits such as Ave María. Like the first recording of Bisbal as a child singing in the family van, images of his time in the Expresiones orchestra in which he performed before OT or of his first tours, especially in America. The documentary also had access to record the reality of his current environment in those days leading up to the 20th anniversary concert, from his parents to his children, Matteo and Bianca, and his current partner, the Venezuelan actress Rosanna Zanetti.
The absence of references to the artist's romantic past, such as his partners Chenoa and Elena Tablada, mother of his daughter Ella, is surprising. Were there red lines? "No. His previous love life appears quite a while and in the way I think it should appear", answers Morante. "In this film, we have dealt with the subject of the heart because of how it affects him in his career and in his life", and this translates into the fact that "when he has relationships that are very media, he suffers a stratospheric harassment of the choir press as never seen before”.
This harassment affected him to face his career in a different way "and that's what we use it for, not so much to find why he leaves his previous relationships". Morante also points out that the documentary addresses why Bisbal "finds it so difficult to find true love and has such a bad time so many times". And in this sense, the director highlights that the one from Almeria expresses on several occasions "that a main goal in his life is to find love and have a family. And he didn't achieve this until recently and to explain this there is no need to explain what went wrong before".
