Dolores O’Riordan

Source: www.laopiniondemurcia.es

The former singer of The Cranberries shows her darkest and most personal side in her last album, “Are you listening”, which she is presenting at a concert in Murcia.

Dolores O’riordan’s (the former singer of the famous band The Cranberries) press conference was held yesterday at the “Narciso Yepes” room in the Murcia’s audotorium, in order to present her concert, that is actually taking place today.

The artist, who arrived free-and-easy at the press room, started a solo career last May that has made her tour around a half of the world, and now she stops in Murcia to present her new album, “Are You Listening?”. An album that is - as she confesses- very autobiographical and personal. The artist chose that title, because it seemed “very humble” for her and she was “very surprised, because nobody had never used it before”, she said.

The singer assured that, at the concert she is giving tonight, she will sing not only new songs, but also old hits, “I like singing the old songs, because they make people remember something they have lived.”

The artist, who describes these moments as the most beautiful of her career, says that “when I look at the audience in a concert and I see they are singing my songs, I feel they are indetified with what I’m telling along them.”

This fact means for her that her lyrics become a dance, since “it’s beautiful that my lyrics are still alive”. Dolores states with a smile on her face that she’s going to try to “vary things in order to make more newnesses.”

The whole world remembers her with her band partners around, but she is now moving through the world of music with an own voice; although she is not with The Cranberries anymore, she doesn’t forget them, because there aren’t such big differences between “that Dolores” and the current one. The artist thinks, as she declared yesterday, that “the biggest difference is actually a gravity issue. The body grows old and that makes you change.”

This thirty-six-year-old singer, has had three children during the time she has been “standing” on her musical career, and this - she says- “has changed my body a lot”. But O’riordan is convinced that “when the body falls the soul rises and you keep on growing”, that’s why she continues on her musical career with new challenges to accomplish, even though she has to deal with them alone.

The singer complained about the few time that she has had during the tour to know more deeply the places where she has to sing, that’s why she wishes she could enjoy the city of Murcia much more.