Artist Brisa Fenoy has reconnected with nature in Wakana.
That change begins with you is something that Brisa Fenoy is very clear about. Since she was a child, when her parents exchanged houses with other people for the holidays, she has known that things can be done differently. "You have to know our roots, the culture we come from, to understand what we are."
The versatile Brisa Fenoy believes that being close to nature brings out the best in ourselves.
"Holidays are the most illusory thing in the world, you kill yourself to work all year and, since you travel fifteen days, you want to be comfortable. And you think that comfort is just that, going to the fashionable remote place and paying five stars. We are very confused." says the singer, songwriter and model (Algeciras, 1991), who came to the fore as co-author of the catchy Lo malo (a song popularized by Aitana and Ana Guerra)... and for not having mince words.
Wakana is a spectacular sustainable space of “experiential nature”.
“Travel is something we should do every day, inside and outside”, she adds her, and states that she enjoys traveling if there is a reason. Like the one that makes her want, if possible this year, to spend a few months in Minca, Colombia. “It is one of the strongest energy centers on the planet. There I meet a New York producer (Lenny Kravitz's), who lives in the middle of the jungle, with the natives”.
Reading under a tree, one of the great little pleasures in Wakana.
Brisa was called that because her pregnant mother bathed in the sea every day and had a "very pleasant" delivery, like the sea breeze. She tells us the anecdote over the phone –after eating a stew of tagarninas– from Wakana, the Cadiz ecological retreat in the Los Alcornocales Natural Park to which she moved a few months ago.
She “she was a little tired of Madrid. She missed the sea, a country house... I felt like a caged bird, and more so with the current situation.” Her friend Julia Catalán, CEO and co-founder of Wakana, told her that she was preparing residences of artists and she did not think about it.
One of the accommodations in Wakana, perfect for those seeking solitude and nature.
Brisa had recorded the video clip for her song Fake de Ella (with Vinila Von Bismark) in this place and she had been amazed, so She moved with her boyfriend and her three dogs to an apartment inside the farm's Andalusian farmhouse to prepare her second album. “My boy is a film director and he has made a Wakana video, so there has been some bartering,” she tells us.
Between trees, Breeze she reads self-knowledge books (she recommends The Orion Yoke, by David Topí; ... and the truth will set you free, by David Icke; What would you do if you were not afraid, by Borja Vilaseca; and a classic, 1984, by George Orwell).
Breeze with her dogs in front of the Wakana tipis, a fun lodging option.
He also helps in the garden –“Little we know today about what the earth offers”–, contemplate the wild horses, practice kayaking, swim... In the morning she goes running through the 180,000 hectares of nature and then she dedicates herself to her music. Her debut album, Amor o Poder, is released this March and is based on a book she published with Planeta under the same title.
“It deals with ecology, feminism, false news and beliefs... We are beings of love and we will never be happy in an insane system Full of fear. You have to kill those constructs, unlearn them”, explains Brisa, immersed in a process of self-discovery in which she is no longer willing to be what others want.
Wakana offers a wide variety of sports activities, meditation, organic garden...
"I want to live without ego, without fear, without anger, without envy, without wanting to please." In the notes of her single Quitame de ella we find echoes of her admired Mari de Chambao, a style that is emerging under an initial more pop packaging of "chewing gum songs", like the one in the theme of Ella Bonita de Ella.
“I have always thought that independent music does not reach as many people and the message reaches those who are probably already aware; my (self-imposed) mission was to offer it in an accessible format, like a Trojan horse.
"But to be the pop girl you need a strong financial muscle and I don't have it nor do I intend to play that. In my next album I want to find my artistic path, more organic”. She is also preparing a movie and an outdoor show for this summer, if circumstances allow.
“We live in an uncertain moment. Something established is dying to make way for the new. Immersed in darkness giving way to light, I want to see it like this! What you believe is what you believe. We are waking up: the one who needs the least is richest; happiness is not in 'being someone', we are already someone and we are wonderful. You have to develop empathy and cooperation, change begins with oneself. That is why I have come here, to connect with childhood, the land and the family”.