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To raise awareness of mental health issues, the monarch rapped in front of her audience using poems by Spanish artist El Chojin. The video quickly went viral.
It’s real noise, fully controlled. This Tuesday, October 10, on the occasion of World Mental Health Day, Queen Letizia of Spain gave a remarkable speech at an institutional event organized by the Spanish Mental Health Confederation at the Ilunion Pío XII Hotel in Madrid. The wife of King Felipe VI actually decided to recite a few lines from Equatorial Guinean-born Spanish rapper El Chojin from his title: No egoism. In order to attract the attention of as many people as possible and deliver her message, the sovereign also wanted to rap.
With appropriate posture and a few subtle body movements, he pronounced. “I do what I can. I do it as much as I can and it’s not healthy to ask that much of myself. Anger and bad faces hurt when I fail, but it hurts even more when they don’t appreciate who you are. I tried. And I try. Sorry if it doesn’t work, but why did they think I would succeed every time?
A video that quickly went viral. “It wouldn’t occur to me to try to rap out of the obvious respect for artists in this genre of music, but I think if the media, this afternoon or tomorrow, maybe headlined ‘Queen ‘raps for mental health.’ “Putting ‘rap’ in quotes, I think it will be a good way to draw attention to such an important and serious issue,” said the former Spanish TV journalist. Goal largely achieved.
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Source: Le Figaro
