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When

and

had already dissected the figure of Francisco Umbral with

, a Goya nomination and an ovation from the critics included, they were looking for a new victim. Until the name came up:

. Although perhaps it sounds more like this:

. They had a coffee with him and suggested that he repeat the documentary formula that they had already followed with the columnist and, earlier, with the poet Luis García Montero. He, off the stage due to a pandemic, said yes.

«We conveyed to him that we wanted to find Rafael Martos. We had seen hundreds of archive interviews, but what are you going to ask Raphael that he hasn't already told? His speech had to be disarticulated and taken through untraveled paths, "says Charlie Arnaiz, half of the duo that makes up the head of Dadá Films. This is how

arose

, which was

of four episodes that the platform premieres on Thursday, January 13.

A journey through the career and personal life of one of the great stars of Spanish musical history. The young man who commissioned his builder father to build a house in Malaga because he didn't want to stop working and it took him three years to build it.

and he would never change color on stage. Or the father and husband who the day he met his future wife, Natalia Figueroa, did not give him his phone number because he was going to call her. That's a tiny part of Raphael's 60-year legend.

“

.

At that time he did not have concerts due to the pandemic, which destabilizes him a lot, he was at home relaxed and that allowed him to abandon himself a little more in the story, "detail the creators of the project, who have been together since 2008 when, Alberto Ortega He entered as a director in the 6th level program, La Sexta, where Charlie Arnaiz was part of the production team of the space presented by Sara Carbonero.

From there to Umbral and Raphael.

Raphael and Natalia Figueroa, on their wedding dayEFE

First, in 2016, it came

, centered on the figure of Luis García Montero and recorded with a 300-euro camera - "lens included in the price," as they are in charge of remarking. A year later, in 2017, his production company, Dadá Films. Until in 2020, just before the pandemic, Threshold and

arrived . And from there to Raphael. «In truth Raphael and Umbral

and because since they were little they were very clear about what they wanted to be: Umbral looked at himself in the mirror while he wrote and Raphael sang to the children from the neighborhood ”, details Alberto Ortega.

There is also much that separates them: «Their personality is very opposite. Umbral, in his last days, was very lonely because he made many enemies and threw himself down the route of scandal and Raphael, on the contrary, is always wrapped up, with a wife and some wonderful children who understand him. In fact,

", say the directors.

In the singer's list, also note his excess of punctuality, which forced the creators of

to

; his ability to measure every word that comes out of his mouth, as if nothing could escape the character, or his obsession with sound checks before concerts. "He could not do them and tell the technician the tone he wants, but he is so professional that he gives a concert before starting," says Charlie Arnaiz, surprised.

Something that is corroborated in the documentary by colleagues such as Pablo López or his inseparable friend and composer, Manuel Alejandro. «In all the decades he has done somersault after somersault and that he was already born as a modern singer. A

. What happens when you review Raphael's life is that you can't explain where the key to his success is. He is a great worker, yes, always renewing himself, but others have not done well. So I don't know where the secret is, ”explains Alberto Ortega.

Perhaps the excessive control of every detail of your career is a good complement to add to the continuous renewal in search of the formula for success.

He did it when, still in his twenties, his career faltered after traveling to Las Vegas with his mother and he came back devastated.

.

"At that time he seemed reviled, but that's when he released one of the best-selling albums of his career," say the directors.

And in a month and a half he had already had seven gold records.

Raphael, in a recent interview ALBERTO DI LOLLI

Dada Films have faced all this in just nine months of work with interviews, documentation and editing to unravel the figure of a singer who broke in in the 1960s and, as he himself acknowledged in this newspaper, he does not intend to leave until «a day I look in the mirror and my voice no longer goes ». “With Raphael you have to know the environment in which he arises, how he had to feel at the time seeing a person with those gestures and that attitude. Today we give him a letter of normality, but you have to put yourself in the 60s with a person who gets on a stage that moves and sings with mannered gestures ”, Alberto Ortega deepens. "He

", completes Charlie Arnaiz.

But, for those who have dug into it, how much is left of the artist and how much of the person?

"That is the big question and it is curious to see how each person in his inner circle has a version.

.

Let the viewer judge it.

If Raphael can be judged.

Because what does anyone know.

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