Ptingo, one of the candidates for the new edition of the best-known culinary talent on our television, MasterChef Celebrity, wanted to share, in the last outdoor test, a couple of funny anecdotes that have happened to him throughout his career like his performance in front of the former president of the United States, Barack Obama: “When I started singing, Obama started clapping“But he has very big hands,” the artist began with great humor. And although the ex-president’s enthusiastic applause showed that he was having a blast, they ended up misleading and, in some way, hindering Pitingo’s ‘por bulerías’ performance. Completely out of step, the American encouraged Pitingo in the best possible way, who finally had to get off the stage and say: “No clap, please’ (‘Don’t clap, please’).
© RTVE“Michelle Obama is wonderful”
Despite the anecdote, Pitingo remembers the Obama couple with great affection: “He is a very good person, I like him very much. And his family too. Michelle Obama is wonderful“, he expressed. And he added that, after singing the song Killing Me Softly and flamenco, he was with the former president “until 4 in the morning.” The artist has also previously said about this meeting that Verónica, his wife, told him that she had received a call to perform. “before a very important person”but without specifying. The artist discovered it when he went to the restaurant where he was summoned: “Suddenly, someone appeared from behind and hugged me, my choir, my choir of gospel and my musicians. “I turned around and it was Obama.”
© PitingoThe ‘scolding’ to Jennifer Lopez
Pitingo has said on more than one occasion that he is a tremendously family-oriented person and that, for his work, he has traveled halfway around the world and that he tries to have someone from his family accompany him on each of his trips. his wife, his cousins, etc. One of these cousins ”scold” Jennifer Lopez herself. At a concert where she coincided with the diva, the Puerto Rican opened a bottle of water, took a sip and put it down. He opened another one, took another sip, and put it down. So up to 3 different water bottles. His cousin addressed the interpreter of The ring and told him that: “In Africa there are children who travel many kilometers to find water and you are wasting it.” From that moment on, Jlo never opened any more bottles.
© jlo / ernestocasillasHis family, his great passion
Pitingo recognizes that he lives by and for music, flamenco and soul, where he is a true master; but what His great passion is undoubtedly his family.. He has been with his wife, Verónica, for 24 years, since Pintingo was 16 and she was 15. The love they feel for each other is such that they work together, she is his manager during tours and whenever possible he accompanies him on his many trips around the world.
© Getty ImagesThe couple, who married in September 2008, after twelve years of courtship, in a civil ceremony, were accompanied by well-known friends such as Imanol Arias and his then wife Pastora Vega, the journalist Juan Ramón Lucas, Loles León and Antonio David Flowers. In 2012 his son Manuel was bornwhich he confesses is the “motor of his life.” At the moment the little boy dreams of being a footballerbut his father assures that he will support him in the profession he decides, although on more than one occasion he has stated that although art runs through his veins, he would prefer that he not be an artist by profession.
