Why do I sing in Spanish? with Nacha Mendez

Nacha Méndez's music is an expression of his curiosity, his varied experience and his restless passion for life. This interview was conducted during this confinement by Silvia Grijalba, director of the Cervantes de Albuquerque and with a long career as a music journalist for the newspaper El Mundo. In it, Nacha explains her artistic evolution until she decided to sing in Spanish, as a sign of her rebellion against a society that rejected culture in this language and tells us about her projects, including an opera that is writing about Malinche. Nacha Méndez combines a classical European training with the Latin repertoire that comes from his ancestors. She studied classical voice and electronic music at New Mexico State University before moving to New York City, where she studied flamenco guitar with Manuel Granados. In the early 1990s, she was lead singer in the Robert Ashley Opera Company, touring Europe and Japan