The groupVan Gogh’s ear‘changes scene. The group announced via its X account that its singer, Leire Martínez, was leaving the group. “After 17 wonderful years full of music and emotions that we will never forget, we want to announce that the professional trajectories of Leire and La Oreja de Van Gogh will follow different paths”, the press release begins.
For the group, it was a difficult and difficult decision “a fascinating stage ends.” “(This step) We will all carry it in our heartsallowed us to enjoy the best job in the world in a dream way”, concludes the message.
Is Amaia coming back?
It’s not the first time that the group found itself without a singer, since in 2007, the one who had been the main voice since the creation of the group, in 1996, until then, Amaïa Montero, He also said goodbye to the group to begin his solo career.
The truth is that the news comes at a time when the singer had spoken about the possibility return of Amaia Montero to the group. He did so in an interview in which he expressed his displeasure with the comments of some of the group’s followers.
“What I don’t like is listening to and seeing certain comments from”ah, well, how wonderful that you come back‘. But hey, what about me? » he said then. So, the singer remembered that she had 16 years in the group. He therefore did not rule out that the case would happen and that Amaia would return to the group. But he added that it was the group’s decision: “If Amaia returns, this might or might not be true…I am something that For the moment, I am not consideringand it will also be the group who will have to say whether it will happen like that or not.”
The truth is that many followers They had tested this possibility because of the singer’s reaction during one of the group’s last concerts, in Zaragoza.
Leire came to the group in 2008after the moments of “down” and the crisis that the abandonment of Amia. With a tone similar to that of Amaia, brown hair and a youthful image, the “boys” of the group, Pablo, Xavi, Álvaro and Haritz, signed Leire and rediscovered the “university spirit” that united them there is twelve years old, they declared then. .
Leire had already achieved fame and showed off his vocal talents in a TV show “X Factor”, But the boys from “Van Gogh’s Ear” claim that they did not see it on the small screen and that it was the “alchemy” and the “good vibrations” that were established between them from the start. first moment that made them “have no doubt”. , even if they know that It will be “difficult” to repeat the success achieved with Amaia.
They arrived in the hands of La Oreja hundreds of models and lots of girls They went to their rehearsal room to do a test, but “chance” or destiny wanted that a girl from San Sebastian itself, who was not a fan of the group, connected with their way of feeling the music and see life. “Not only did we need a singer, but also a friend who would bring her things“, said Pablo. “We are delighted to have another partner to join the train”, added Xavi, who recognized that they had risked “the survival of the group“.
