Tonight Melody is going to have fun at ‘El Hormiguero’. The singer will present her new single ‘El Huracán’ and will talk about How she combines her successful musical career with motherhood. An adventure that began more than two years ago and that has allowed her to analyze how society continues to perpetuate different taboos or prejudices around women. Something that the previous guest, actress Andrea Ros, also denounced.
Melodía Ruiz Gutiérrez, better known as Melody, is a Spanish singer and songwriter. whose professional career began when she was only 10 years old. Already at that time, in 2001, he managed to achieve fame with his successful debut album ‘De pata negra’, with songs as recognized as ‘El baile del gorilla’. Currently, he is in the middle of the ‘El Bosque Encantado Tour 2026’ tour, with which he will visit the main Spanish cities.
Her intense professional career did not pose a problem for her to take the step and face one of the most important challenges of her life: motherhood. The singer She became a mother to little Cairo on February 17, 2024. However, during pregnancy she had to manage all the negative comments she received about the impossibility of combining her role as an artist and her obligations as a mother.
The artist denounced the prejudices that women still have to face
As she confessed in the program ‘And now Sonsoles’, in an interview conducted by Sonsoles Onega herself, when she made the news of her pregnancy public, comments began to arrive about the changes that her body would undergo and how motherhood would affect her career. “With women, when they are going to be mothers, there is that taboo. There seems to be a prejudice that you can lose your job.that they don’t want to hire you or ‘let’s see what’s going to happen, you’re going to gain kilos,” he said.
The artist confessed that this type of criticism hurt her at times. However, the excitement and desire to meet his future son was such that he did not let these types of malicious words affect him. “I was so excited about what was coming and what I had inside me that, Of course, that takes a backseat.“He explained. However, he expressed that it had not been something pleasant to manage.
“Women, sometimes, We have to gather courage and get to work immediately Because if you don’t, it seems like you’re leaving the map,” she said. Something that not only usually happens in artists, but also in all professionals with an important position, who must reduce the time they spend with their children to prevent motherhood from harming their professional career.
Motherhood has been “a great personal challenge” for the singer
Despite this, she denies the belief that when a woman becomes a mother, this means the end of her life. Something that the artist has been able to demonstrate, who just one year after having her little one was able to get on stage at the Song Festival to represent Spain in Eurovision in 2025. However, as he confessed, Cairo’s arrival meant a drastic change in his priorities.
Melody also took advantage of the interview to claim the importance of not romanticizing motherhood. “There are moments when you say: ‘Swallow me dirt, damn, how difficult.’ Which is what I love most, yes, but of course, it is a big personal challenge.“, she explained. A reflection that she shared with Sonsoles Onega herself, who also confessed to having had moments in which she felt that no one had warned her about everything that caring for the little ones entailed.
Despite the enormous challenge of growing up, the artist has managed to combine it with her professional career. As he confessed in an interview on ‘Cadena 100’, the secret is in the organization. “Now everything goes very fast, we spend our lives running and having a child… But hey, everything is reorganizing. And, of course, saying no to things that really don’t have that much relevance.“. A formula that has allowed him to achieve hits such as his new single ‘El Huracán’, which he will present tonight at ‘El Hormiguero’.