David Otero, on the goodbye of El Canto del Loco: “We will never tell what really happened”

David Otero This week he was the star of the video podcast Palante escaping from Pablo Ibáñez, known as the Man in Black. There, for almost an hour and a half, he reviewed his entire personal and professional career, including, as it could not be otherwise, the goodbye of El Canto del Loco. However, instead of repeating what he has confessed on previous occasions, the now soloist has preferred to say that “we are never going to tell what really happened.”

In previous statements they have explained the personal and professional problems they experienced but something else will remain a secret: “We are not sensationalists, nor do we seek clickbait. We respect each other. Although we have no relationship and each of us has gone our own way, we have a lot of respect. For my part there was always respect and gratitude for what we experienced and a lot of affection for what we had. To tell it would be to disrespect what we had. I prefer to keep it to myself, having had to heal what I had to heal and having rebuilt what I had. I had to rebuild, which has been complicated and painful,” says the Madrid musician.

David Otero recognizes that despite the hardness of the blowprefers to stay with the beauty that he experienced for many years: “I keep the good and wish the best to the parties and thus pay tribute to what happened. It is to maintain respect. I am very fond of the group's stage. A while ago I listened to a podcast of a guitarist who spoke negatively about one of his old groups. You think that that time he was in he did not respect it. My position has always been one of gratitude and good energy.”

In that sense, the musician recognizes that it was a story that ended many years ago and that will never return under any circumstances: “I have tried not to talk shit about those who hurt us who were not us. Between us we never had the will to hurt each other. Not at all. Me at least. What happened to us was without will. That love continues to exist and we respect it. Another thing is that you want to get back together and relive it. I have been asked that many times. El Canto del Loco is not going to get back together. It's not that is giving an exclusive, but because you have shared the entire process with me. And from there I rebuilt myself.

Spain saw them together for the last time on December 19, 2009 at the last concert of their tour in our country. In America, that farewell (which at the time we did not know would be) took place a July 24, 2010 at the Metropolitan Theater in Mexico City. Since then 15 years have passed but it seems like yesterday. And although time has made his possible return increasingly impossible, no one forgets El Canto del Loco or allows Dani Martín or David Otero to do so (nor would they want to, surely).

What is clear is that they prefer to stay with the positive and that the ugly of those days remained in that year and will not come to light again.