By FRANCISCO JOSÉ NAVARRO
Ramón del Castillo, a singer from Gran Canaria who came second in the popular Operación Triunfo contest and was also Spain's representative in the previous edition of Eurovision, told LA VOZ readers about the experience of having participated, even if it was a while ago, in an event of enormous international significance.
"I was caught up in a whirlwind that didn't give me much personally, but it did professionally." Ramón is so forceful, having experienced that time with a lot of stress, although he acknowledges that professionally it was "an experience that has made me a figure in the history of music in Spain and Eurovision."
After participating in the European contest, Ramón was barely hired, as apparently the company in charge of his promotion was so busy with a David Bisbal tour that "they didn't even have time to answer the phone when they called to hire me."
In fact, the summer following Eurovision, the Canary Island singer only did four concerts, when according to his own estimates he could have done between sixty and eighty performances.
Operación Triunfo
Ramón remembers very well and in a very pleasant way his time at the academy with the most followers in the country, which last season changed channels, moving to Telecinco.
In this sense, the Canary Island singer commented that in each of the editions of the contest "different profiles have been sought in the castings," which according to the young artist is what differentiates the different seasons of OT. "In one edition they looked for the best voices, in another the best looks, in another - people with a more complex personal and family background, and in the last, the combination between beautiful voices and pretty faces."
Much has been said about the changes in the format of the contest in the last season. But Del Castillo believes that "the teachers who have given me classes I like more than those of this year." "I think that in this edition they have looked for more media-friendly teachers," that is, that they looked good on television and were themselves protagonists of the program.
