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Noemí Galera is director of Operación Triunfo (OT), the most popular competition on Spanish television where young people compete to demonstrate their musical skills on stage. But it is not just a competition, they enter a musical academy to train and grow as people. For a few months Noemí is like a mother to the boys and girls who compete, she is the reference that accompanies them when, as in any coexistence, conflicts arise. A few weeks ago she was live on Educo's Instagram with Guiomar Todó, our deputy general director , and they talked about the importance of feeling happy during childhood, about the power of education to transform lives and about values and solidarity . This is part of her conversation. How was your childhood? What was Naomi like as a child? I have had a super happy childhood. My parents separated when I was six years old and my brother was three and we moved to Barcelona. We grew up with my grandparents and my uncle, which I think is one of the most fantastic things there is, being able to share time with your grandparents. Both my brother and I have always been surrounded by a lot of love, a lot of affection, and we have been very happy. I make a very positive assessment and I think that if I can make my children half as happy as I was, I will be happy. And what role did the school have? Did you like going to school? I have very good memories of that time. In fact, we still have a chat with our eighth grade classmates and we talk daily.
They are friendships that are forged in childhood and last over time because you experience very important things that mark you for life. And that is why I believe in the importance of being educated and having the happiest chil Chinese Overseas Asia Number Data dhood possible, because that stage marks you as a person forever. School is much more than that space to learn. Of course, because you learn to live with other people who may have nothing to do with you, who have different families – much more so now than in my time – and that becomes normal. Boys and girls see that there are people from other cultures, with families of all kinds, and they learn to respect and coexist. They are very important values that are forged in those first years of life. Were you already interested in music when you went to school? I remember that when I went to bed I did so with the radio on and I fell asleep listening to music. There are many songs that I know from listening to them half asleep. And in my house music has always been present because my uncle played the guitar and liked to make songs, and my mother sang, but I have never studied music. What I do have is a musical ear. I've always liked it a lot, but I never thought I could dedicate myself to anything related to music. And with television? Much less with TV! It wouldn't have even crossed my mind. I do remember that when I was studying – back then we memorized a lot – I would go into my room and act as a news presenter, reciting the news as if I were explaining it to all of Spain.
But I never thought I would dedicate myself to this. How important is the support of your environment for boys and girls to develop their full potential? Supporting, motivating and empowering is essential. Andrea Vilallonga, teacher at the OT academy, says that if your child is bad at math and very good at music, don't give him a math teacher, give him a music teacher. The support of your family is very important, so that they do not hinder you. Ours has been a family of a medium-low socioeconomic level, we did not have great luxuries, far from it, but we have always been a great group. How do you motivate the boys and girls at OT to fight to achieve their dreams? They come with full motivation! Perhaps it is true that they enter with the idea of singing and, once there, they discover that they are capable of composing or playing an instrument and their angle of vision opens up. The music industry is not only about getting in front of a microphone and singing, there are many other facets, and it is what they learn, which can be used for many other things. We try not to get them frustrated, because if they don't get what they want in a short time it doesn't mean they won't get it. Life takes many turns, there are people who need a longer journey, others a shorter one, then there are people who are lucky and others who are not. Luck is a factor that exists in the world of music as in everyone. What do you expect from the contestants as director of the OT academy? Above all, I like that they leave with the feeling that we have taught them to be better artists, but above all better people. At the academy we try to make coexistence good, there are people who each come from different places, who don't know each other, who don't decide to be together but rather they find each other, and maybe they get along terribly. But respecting each other, respecting other ideas, is very important and we try to make them better people.
They are friendships that are forged in childhood and last over time because you experience very important things that mark you for life. And that is why I believe in the importance of being educated and having the happiest chil Chinese Overseas Asia Number Data dhood possible, because that stage marks you as a person forever. School is much more than that space to learn. Of course, because you learn to live with other people who may have nothing to do with you, who have different families – much more so now than in my time – and that becomes normal. Boys and girls see that there are people from other cultures, with families of all kinds, and they learn to respect and coexist. They are very important values that are forged in those first years of life. Were you already interested in music when you went to school? I remember that when I went to bed I did so with the radio on and I fell asleep listening to music. There are many songs that I know from listening to them half asleep. And in my house music has always been present because my uncle played the guitar and liked to make songs, and my mother sang, but I have never studied music. What I do have is a musical ear. I've always liked it a lot, but I never thought I could dedicate myself to anything related to music. And with television? Much less with TV! It wouldn't have even crossed my mind. I do remember that when I was studying – back then we memorized a lot – I would go into my room and act as a news presenter, reciting the news as if I were explaining it to all of Spain.
But I never thought I would dedicate myself to this. How important is the support of your environment for boys and girls to develop their full potential? Supporting, motivating and empowering is essential. Andrea Vilallonga, teacher at the OT academy, says that if your child is bad at math and very good at music, don't give him a math teacher, give him a music teacher. The support of your family is very important, so that they do not hinder you. Ours has been a family of a medium-low socioeconomic level, we did not have great luxuries, far from it, but we have always been a great group. How do you motivate the boys and girls at OT to fight to achieve their dreams? They come with full motivation! Perhaps it is true that they enter with the idea of singing and, once there, they discover that they are capable of composing or playing an instrument and their angle of vision opens up. The music industry is not only about getting in front of a microphone and singing, there are many other facets, and it is what they learn, which can be used for many other things. We try not to get them frustrated, because if they don't get what they want in a short time it doesn't mean they won't get it. Life takes many turns, there are people who need a longer journey, others a shorter one, then there are people who are lucky and others who are not. Luck is a factor that exists in the world of music as in everyone. What do you expect from the contestants as director of the OT academy? Above all, I like that they leave with the feeling that we have taught them to be better artists, but above all better people. At the academy we try to make coexistence good, there are people who each come from different places, who don't know each other, who don't decide to be together but rather they find each other, and maybe they get along terribly. But respecting each other, respecting other ideas, is very important and we try to make them better people.