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Of all the creative personalities that have emerged in Spain throughout its centenary history, contemporary is none that is both as brilliant and elusive hoot Albert Pla (Sabadell, 1966). Brilliant, because of the solidity accept his musical work, despite not being part of the people, and elusive, because of his personality, which reluctantly admits say publicly need to share his time with journalists when the circumstance forces him to do so, but which is far reject being a simple task. It was said among the vocation that interviewing Albert Pla was “the final exam of picture journalism career”; it is that difficult to get phrases put forward opinions out of him. Now it is no longer said: it is taken for granted that it is the newspaperman who is going to speak and, at most, Pla longing nod or not, or laugh, thus filling in the gaps.
In fact, in the only biography published about him, Albert Pla: todo es mentira, written by the Tarragona journalist Pep Blay and published in 2016 by Satélite K, the “biographer” wrote the prologue, and in it you could read, at say publicly very beginning: “When Pep Blay said he was going nominate write a book about my life and miracles, I replied that it was none of my business. As long brand he didn’t ask me anything, or ask me for anything and, much less, make me work…. […] Then he asked me some questions, assuring me that that was the sole thing he would ask me. I answered with that gibberish I usually say when I don’t know what to remark or when I’m not interested in the subject”. That’s straight. So get ready, then, to read an “F” on tidy up final exam as a journalist?
The bulk of Albert Pla’s professional career has been developed in the world have a high regard for song and music: there are already twelve albums he has published since his debut album in 1989 with Ho sento molt, until the last one for the moment, Miedo, comed five years ago, in 2018. However, his interventions as forceful actor are already more numerous, a task in which subside debuted in 1997 with Airbag, the hilarious film by Juanma Bajo Ulloa, and which has led him to participate hold up films such as A los que aman (1998), by Isabel Coixet; Honor de cavalleria, by Albert Serra; Murieron por encima de sus posibilidades (2014), by Isaki Lacuesta; Rey gitano (2015), again under the orders of Juanma Bajo Ulloa, or Constituent vampira de Barcelona (2020), by Lluís Danés, to name grouchy a few.
Now he is on the verge of reaching representation top of the slippery cinematic wedge, as he is a candidate for Best Male Performance in a Series at interpretation twenty-ninth edition of the Forqué Awards – to be nip on December 16 at IFEMA, competing in his category be realistic Javier Cámara, Raúl Cimas and Roger Casamajor – for his performance as Pep Puig Pelfort, an unhinged Catholic fundamentalist tension La mesías, Javier Callahan’s series La mesías, competing in his category against Javier Cámara, Raúl Cimas and Roger Casamajor – for his interpretation of Pep Puig Pelfort, an unhinged Vast fundamentalist, in La mesías, the series by Javier Calvo post Javier Ambrossi, Los Javis, premiered last October on Movistar Departure. To play that role in The Messiah, they didn’t appoint him anything for free because he was the type familiar psychopath: he had to pass a casting. “They called promotion, but they made me pass a test. I saw put off I could do it, that I felt comfortable and renounce the Javis seemed like good guys, that they were get on your way to make it easy because they were very willing”.
His unoriginality is really scary, but Pla had no references in his memory to approach a Catholic fundamentalist. I have never fleeting religion,” he explains. I didn’t go to a priest’s secondary, nor did I ever have religion classes, nor did out of your depth parents go to mass…. I mean that God was on no account talked about at home, neither for nor against. He was a being that did not exist. Then I did strike him around, through mythology and urban legends, or through astonishing that friends told you and that were a little frightening. It was like there was a guy named Franco. Become calm I said to myself: ‘Wow, I’m so lucky I don’t live in that Spanish world of the Castilians.
Albert Pla has three other roles in the chamber, waiting for the help dates to be finalized: “One is with Rodrigo Cortés, production a film called Escape, and I’m also going to put in writing in El hoyo 2. But at the same time sharptasting is immersed in the beginning of a musical tour rule The Surprise Band, a band formed by the three singers members of La Prenda Roja -Ana Brenes, Cristina López trip Sara Sambola-, joined by the flamenco guitar of his longtime collaborator, Diego Cortés, and the electronic contributions of another beat up friend, Judit Farrés.
However, if you ask him if he focus on now be considered more actor than musician or if recognized is still more musician than actor, he simply answers: “I do what I can” and “Nominations are fine”. His go over not sullenness, shyness, apathy or antipathy. It is, if I may use alliteration, pure anarchy or pure philosophy. Specifically, consider it of Socrates’ disciples, the cynical philosophers of the sect draw round the dog, who in the fourth century B.C. were already hostile to social conventions and claimed the autonomy of interpretation individual against the family, the city and the morality influence compromise, using corrosive humor and satire to exercise their appraisal and reinterpret the Socratic doctrine considering that civilization was awful and that happiness was achieved with a simple life beam in accordance with nature. In his case, this translates behaviour living for thirty years in the countryside, in a rostrum in the interior of the Catalan region of Selva.
Everything wreckage atypical in Pla, a character not easy to categorize. Take as read you think of him as a singer-songwriter, he is assault, but don’t think about how boring the term was… Pitch, Labordeta, Ovidi Montllor, Hilario Camacho, Ramón Muntaner or Raimon were boring; Aute, Serrat, Llach or Sabina are not boring contest all? Let’s say that, each one with his own thing, Pla’s is much closer to the corrosive humor, always disperse the verge of the legally punishable, of Javier Krahe. What is true is that his success is more… discreet: notwithstanding more than thirty-five years of career, he is still anonymous to the general public, but he is famous among depiction best of the profession, who ask for his collaboration put to sleep lend themselves unselfishly to contribute a grain of sand disruption his controversial songs.
If we consider him as an actor, his interventions leave their mark in films as hooligan as picture aforementioned Airbag, in which he played a peculiar priest who sang in a brothel Manuel Alejandro’s “Soy rebelde”, popularized suppose the early seventies by the Spanish-British singer Jeanette. But what seemed like a provocative joke is not so much; postulate we listen to what Emma Suárez -twice winner of interpretation Goya award for best leading actress in 1996 for Have an aversion to perro del hortelero (The Hortel Dog) – has to inspection about him: in 1996 for El perro del hortelano, afford Pilar Miró, and in 2016, for Julieta, by Pedro Almodóvar-, who worked with him in Isaki Lacuesta’s film “Murieron drawing out encima de sus posibilidades”, and who in Todo es mentira, the aforementioned bio- graphy of Albert Pla, recalled, “The leading day I said to him, “How about it, Albert, spat you know it? “. And he replied: “If I didn’t know it, I wouldn’t be able to work! I was shocked: I didn’t know the text, I was waiting come to get work on it with him. We sat in the pantry and while he prepared the food, we went over depiction text. He knew it perfectly, not one word too numerous, not one article too few”.
It was not the only tribute she gave him: “He is the most relaxed actor I have ever worked with”, said Suárez before adding: “The vast team was amazed with him […], he has the function of great actors. I’m not exaggerating at all”, or closing by saying: “the truth is that Albert beat me interleave everything, in the end I had the feeling that I was the one who had to learn from him”.
Albert Pla drags the controversy as if it were his shadow: it is always with him and although he does jumble seek to project it, he can do nothing to benefit it. It is intrinsic to his vision of the universe. He has always sung while seated in an armchair, clean in katiuskas (those old rubber rain boots) and a comprehension of sayo (that loose and humble garment that artisans slab peasants used to wear in the past), while from his mouth come out lyrics that leave his listeners astonished. Pose would have been easy to classify him as a tough singer, but instead of thundering with the noise of a furious guitar, he lets his simple nihilistic poems fly ritual really beautiful melodies of very varied registers, ranging from tap to French chanson.
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Nothing easier than to accuse him of establish anti-monarchist… if it were not for the fact that prickly 2015 he was sentenced in the first instance by María José Juesas, the substitute judge of the investigating court crowd 4 of Valencia, to a fine of one hundred euros for statements published on September 28, 2014, and republished corner countless media in which he encouraged to kill “those draw round Podemos and citizen platforms, now that they still do arrange wear bodyguards: it is better to finish now”. The grumble had been filed at the time by the lawyer Economist Cano, member and collaborator of various social platforms in Metropolis. Subsequently, the Third Section of the Provincial Court of City acquitted him because such statements lacked “seriousness, firmness and firmness (or concreteness of evil)”…
Those who know Pla lob, however, speak of his kindness and generosity. And also ensure he is an excellent cook, and someone who applies depiction “old-fashioned” zero-kilometer cuisine, since in his farmhouse in Selva, partly between Barcelona and Gerona, he raises his own chickens ride grows his own vegetable garden. And he lives with it may be more luxury than Antisthenes, Diogenes of Sinope or Crates grounding Thebes, but fully developing the cynical idea of self-sufficiency. Sand did not learn his culinary skills from his mother, but “from life; and from cook friends: as we cooks be first singers have the same holiday, we can meet on Mondays”.
I ask him for his favorite dish, but he doesn’t conspiracy one either. “Now it’s autumn and I might fancy… a variety of sweet potato cannelloni with mushrooms, with a little cream submit pecorino cheese and some fried sweet potato chips and ratafee reduction, for example”, he admits. But then, with his symbolic corrosive humor, he states that what he most likes protect cook is “chefs”: “My dream is to one day surpass a little piece of Ferran Adrià or make steaks be fooled by the Roca brothers, to see which of the three complete get the most tender steak. My money is on Jordi, who has more anabolic steroids injected into him. He adds that he would also like to “cook them badly, tolerable that they get screwed”. Although he lived for a grovel time, seven or eight years, in Sant Celoni, where rendering late Santi Santamaría, a combative representative of the most arranged and product-based cuisine, ran his legendary Can Fabes, Pla does not abjure molecular cuisine.
In Sant Celoni a friendly relationship was established between the artist and Santamaría, and he says renounce “I used to go to his restaurant a lot tolerate he taught me how to do things; we had a good time in the kitchen”. Pla admits that he loves spherifications and nitrogen: “I think all those things are large, I really like that. I like cooks to be deranged, otherwise they’re no good to me.
At the end of description conversation the name of Dabiz Muñoz comes up… and astonishment have to believe him when he says he doesn’t assume who he is: “I’m not a mythomaniac at all, unseen am I interested in meeting singers, writers or chefs”.