"I was very lucky, because I fell onto the bed after the concert. If I had gone onto the stage...", recalls José María Sanz, Loquillo (Barcelona, ​​1960). A serious arrhythmia landed him in the operating room. "My heart rate had reached 147 beats per minute. Luckily for the doctors at the University of Navarra," he adds. It's the first thing he says once seated at a table in the Speakeasy restaurant at the Dry Martini cocktail bar in Barcelona. When artists have to speak to the press, they often try to meet in comfortable spaces that convey warmth and emotional security. At Dry Martini, they serve him the drink he wants without him even asking. "I want us to do the interview in Catalan. I need to speak Catalan because where I live [the Basque Country] I can't," he says. "When I travel around Spain and the world, they always say: 'Loquillo, the Catalan artist born in Barcelona.'"