Juanjo Bona has lived in Madrid for five years, but his way of speaking still retains a slight maño accent, an Aragonese mark that is a hallmark of the house, because being maño is a big deal: “It’s a big deal, the truth is that it helped me a lot, I didn’t know what to do and it was a resource that I had there in a file. The jota and being born there were goodsomething that set me apart.”
He started when he was just a child, participating in music competitions, singing his voice to the rhythm of the jota, until two years ago he became famous as a finalist of the famous Operation Triumph. Today he is proud triumph. “He gave me everything, I have no complaints against the team and I wear the label triumph very highbecause I believe that it is compatible to make a credible and quality musical project with being born into it musically,” he defends.
Therefore, after trying to enter as a child Junior Master Chefdid not hesitate to participate Celebrity MasterChefat the risk of becoming, as some believe, meat reality. “They tagged me a lot and yes It scares me and it tastes badbut ultimately I need people to know me,” he admits.
He is not the first to carry the folklore of his country like his flag, Hevia or Rodrigo Cuevas have already done so, but perhaps he is the youngest: “At the beginning I didn’t want to, I believed that commercial was something else and I had to do something else to succeed, but what does it mean to succeed?
A doubt which adds to knowing whether this folklore distinguishes or conditions. “I’m now at a very thoughtful point on this issue, because I made an album praising everything that’s beautiful about the city, but it’s true that And then people are sometimes cruel“, he admits.
The lights and shadows of small places, where his sexual condition marked him. “The cities there still have a long way to go, a lot. In my town, I never had any role models and today, I know few boys or girls who come out of the closet, and we have a thousand inhabitants.”
His coming out of the closet was not entirely silent, he did so OT in front of all of Spain. “For example, I go there with my partner, with Martín, and we are at the city swimming pool, normalizing a young gay couple… It is for me an incredible step. That in the city the children are in the swimming pool and see that seems great to me,” he adds. “I was a different child and I was attacked for itbut it’s also what made me who I am.”
And he says it clearly in his single, it’s me nowquite a declaration of intentions. “It’s a very pop song, very fun, very impactful and which has no folklore. I thought a lot about whether to remove it or not, but really inside me, as if there was something telling me, look Go on“I felt this song and that’s it,” he defends.
At only 21 years old, he begins to have things clear and above all to know a little about where he is evolving: “In this world, you end up meeting a lot of people, but in reality I’m starting to understand the definition of friendship now.. “I’m always a person who likes to be around a lot of people, but, ultimately, real friends? You can count them on your fingers.”
The one who never misses is the family, his mother, with whom he spoke just before starting the interview, and who will surely attend the concert he will have on January 31 in his beloved Zaragoza. “They are very excited, they have always encouraged me, helped me and guided me towards what I wanted.”
And it’s clear what he wants, become among the most illustrious Aragonesewith his admired Bunbury or Amaral and, who knows, if soon, Juanjo Bona will be there, as the words of his beloved Jota say Polished Magalloneracalled to heaven.
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