Ferran Palau: "I found the love of my life when I was 10."

Musician Ferran Palau explains that he found the love of his life when he was 10 years old. She was three years older, English, and named Louise Samson. For him, there was no one cooler in the world than that girl from South London. "She wore long skirts and Dr. Martens, and always wore headphones, listening to her cassettes. On her first day of school, she kicked a rock and accidentally broke the glass in a door. I thought, 'This girl is cool.'" The three-year difference between them was unbridgeable, and Louise only approached him one Midsummer Night to tell him that a friend of hers liked him because he looked like a member of Take That. "I told her I liked another girl, but I didn't dare tell her it was her," the musician explains.

The musician was a friend of her brother, and that led to their subsequent encounters. A day in 1994 at the Samsons' house will forever remain etched in Palau's memory. "The three of us were on the couch watching the movie." My girl"That day there was a huge fire in Montserrat, and we started to smell the helicopters and the smoke. The images and sensations of that day have stayed with me," says the musician.

The years passed and each of them went their separate ways, until around their twenties they reunited through music and the band Anímic, where they began playing together. "I was deeply in love and kept sending her signals: I gave her a guitar so she'd come into my world and so we could spend more time together. Finally, I declared my love, and on April 23rd, Sant Jordi's Day, we shared our first kiss. Now she's turning 21," Palau celebrates.

One of the things the musician explains he told her back then is that if they went out together, "they had to commit as if they were getting married." "If we go out, don't ever leave me. It's either forever or nothing, because if not, I'm going to suffer a lot," I told her. She thought about it and said yes. "For me, love is a religion; it's committing to an idea, a way of life, and a person," the musician says. "Before being with Louise, I was a very unstable person. The feeling of having nothing to lose wouldn't have been good, and the responsibility of committing to her has given me stability. The existential void is too much." heavy and we need answers, and for me love and family are the answers."