“People think that being famous at a very young age is an advantage because you have privileges, but that’s not the case. At school they went to death for you,” said Pablo Motos (27 years old, Cádiz) this Tuesday, during the singer’s visit to The anthill to celebrate two decades of musical career. “There was everything. There were classmates who turned their backs on me, who saw me at recess signing autographs and who criticized and insulted me. They made my life a bit impossible,” responded the artist about the bullying he suffered as a child when he began to be famous. He started in the music industry at age 7 and recorded his first album at age 10.
The artist also said that there were people who did not react that way, like his friends, but that there was a moment when things got out of hand and he had to ask for help: “It got a little out of hand and they put security inside the center, who made sure nothing happened, and also the teachers themselves helped a lot,” he recalled. Of course, in the interview he assured that it took him a while to dare to tell it, even to his parents, and how it was a respite to be able to open up to his family once he launched himself. “They took action very quickly. It was through a friend who told them about it for me, but I would recommend to all those children, to all those who go through an experience like that, to tell it because in the end it is the best thing they can do,” he concluded, insisting that everything has a solution.
“I especially remember buying sandwiches in the high school cafeteria and passing through the hallway every day where there was a gang of kids; for me it was horrible because they picked on me,” Mateo told Motos. The Andalusian told how they threw what he bought in his face, how they tripped him and how they locked him in the bathroom and didn’t let him out until he sang something. A situation that led him to change his school modality and choose to study remotely: “I was able to advance my studies, I have the Baccalaureate,” he was proud on television.
Next January, the singer, who has amassed 3.4 million followers on his , will celebrate his twenty-year career with . “It will be a conversation with my childhood self. I am going to sing songs that I will never do again. It is a way to close a cycle, to reconnect with the child who started with so much enthusiasm and continue moving forward,” he said in the program. Musically, his famous song, the song he recorded with Ana Mena almost three years ago, has now been reborn and has become number one on global Shazam and viral in 50 countries.
