When we talk about music, our memory is as selective as it is capricious.. There are songs that have remained to live in it by listening to them over and over again, becoming familiar with them until we recognize them as if we had always known them.

What doesn’t happen often, and when it happens we celebrate it, is that a voice impresses us so much that manages to impact our memories by hearing it just once.

In reality, Pink Martini had already been in business for a year, but it was with her that it finally took off. They soon began to compose together, and, his first song, Sympathiquebecame a success. So much so that even part of his lyrics (“je ne veux pas travailler”) Today it is a common slogan that French workers sing when they go on strike.

Out of the band, The artist also flirted with the seventh art during his first years of career, something in which his father’s passion for cameras and his sister’s career as a film director had a lot to do with it. China Forbes made their first steps as an actress in Franchesca Page (Kelley Sane, 1998), a musical about drag queens in which she shared a cast with Rossy de Palma and which took her to Cannes.

A career full of achievements

Since the conjunction of both worlds, success has not ceased to accompany China Forbes, which together with Pink Martini has played with some of the most prestigious orchestras in the world, such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Solo he has also provided voice to acclaimed film and television soundtracks such as Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Emily in Paris or even our national The Money Heist.

In 2011 saw his career in jeopardy, as well as his health, when He entered the operating room to have some polyps removed from his vocal cords.. Everything was a scare, but the singer had to stay away from the stage for several months, during which time she was replaced in the band by Storm Large.

His return was celebrated by Pink Martini fans, as varied as the genres played by this small orchestra that has been echoed even in the most exclusive maisons. Last year, Balenciaga couldn’t resist either. glamor american symphonyand collaborated with them on a limited edition ready-to-wear line that was announced with that extravagance that characterizes both collaborators: simulating a musical casting in which the models performed mythical titles by Pink Martini.

With more than one and a half million views per month, Pink Martini has earned the label of international band like few others. First, because the lyrics of their languages ​​have been sung in languages ​​from English and French to Japanese and even our own, Spanish, in which they perform titles such as Where are you, Yolanda, My love or a part of your version of the What will be will be, original by Doris Day.

The second reason why we can say that the group crosses borders is that Every country they pass through welcomes them with open arms. On this occasion, it will be the lights of La Riviera and Saint Feliu that will vibrate with the torrent of China Forbes’ voice, in two concerts that will make attendees dance to the rhythm of the warmest and most casual sound cocktail of the moment.

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