After giving him the folder lined with photographs of his childhood idols (and his first ‘sexsymbols’) and the occasional gift that almost made the artist shed a few tears at the beginning of the program, Albert Espinosa is presented as Espi which is what his family and friends called him when he was little, Alaska. “Hey, I wanted to know what they called you when you were little,” he asks his guest today. The way home.
“Forgot“, she responds bluntly. And the fact is that, at that time, Alaska still ‘did not exist’ and in her house “they hated diminutives.” “My grandmother, If I had heard someone call me Olvi…“laughs the singer, remembering her husband, Mario Vaquerizo. “If I had heard Mario call me Olvi, like he does, he wouldn’t have liked it. I think I would have put a cross on him forever“He jokes, doesn’t he?
Her stage name, Alaska, comes from a Lou Reed song, ‘Caroline Says II’. “Beautiful. From ‘Berlin’. She is beautiful,” she remembers. The song came into her life after Raphael, when he was already living in Spain, after spending much of his childhood in Mexico, he clarifies to the presenter. “You have to think that today we have a very complicated path,” he explains.
“Of course, because you came when you were ten years old. So there is a part of the path that we cannot do; the part until you are ten years old,” he confirms. “I came here when I was ten years old and at 12 years old I was already giving myself the name Alaska. I am in school, but mI life is no longer school, there are other things“adds the singer.