The international artist Alejandro Sanz has received the title of Favorite Son of the Province of Cádiz, a land of which he has said “means everything I am” and has shown his pride in this distinction shared with the rest of the entities and people in the province.

This is what he told journalists before participating in the institutional act for the Day of the Province celebrated by the Diputación de Cádiz and where he has also been recognized as a Favorite Daughter posthumous title to Lola Floreswho on March 31 will have its own museum in Jerez de la Frontera.

“Cádiz for me means everything I am. My training, my memories, where all my dreams were formed, where my family, my brother, my father grew up. It means everything”, Alejandro Sanz expressed with emotion, noting that his song ‘Cái’, performed by Niña Pastori, is inspired by all that this land means to him and in his past time between Alcalá de los Gazules, Algeciras, Valdelagrana, Barbate and other points in the province.

Sanz will also have a museum in Alcalá de los Gazules around his figure, in a project that is already being worked on. On that, he has stated that he is “very excited” to see that museum open to the publicconsidering that this moment is going to be “very beautiful” and that with its launch the province of Cádiz is going to have “a route of museums”, remembering those that will open soon such as Lola in Jerez and Paco de Lucía in Algeciras, and those that are already open, such as Rocío Jurado in Chipiona and Camarón de la Isla in San Fernando.

In his speech after receiving his distinction, Sanz has shown his love for “the personal universe” that it is Cádiz and he has declared himself a “devotee” of the province of Cádiz, “of its form and its substance”. “I am and I will be, with or without recognition, a lover and someone dedicated to what Cádiz is.”

In addition, he has thanked “from the bottom of his soul” for the institutional recognition but has stated that he feels “more privileged than favored”, understanding that being favored is “very nice” but being privileged is “something that one chooses and turns it into a pirouette of life”.

“I do not need anything. You have me already, I have traveled alone to tell you. Give recognition to those who are dying to be recognized and deserve it. I just die for the privilege of feeling that everything of mine was formed here, my memories, my dreams, my parents, everything else is colored paper, but I am more than moments, all those that made me who I am, ” Has expressed.

On the other hand, he has felt honored by “the fantasy” of share this day with Lola Flores, about which she has said she had “the fortune to share many bohemian activities” and that she has described as “an artist with large letters, someone uncompromising in a single word”.

Rosario Flores collects the distinction awarded to her mother posthumously

Rosario Flores, who has attended the event to collect the distinction awarded to his mother, The artist from Jerez, Lola Flores, has assured that she feels “very honored, proud and moved” and has thanked her mother for the title of Favorite Daughter of the Province of Cádiz, stating that on the day of the inauguration of her museum in Jerez “she is going to cry a lot”.

In his speech, he defended that Lola Flores was “Andalusian from head to toe and He spoke of Andalusia with a love, a passion and a joy that was unrepeatable and there will be no other like Lola Flores”. “

My mother from above is dancing bulerías and saying ‘olé my land’ and I am going to take her blood and her art throughout the world”, said Rosario, to ensure that “there will never be anyone like it”. In addition to this title, Lola Flores has also been named, along with David Bisbal, Favorite Daughter of Andalusia.