"Since childhood I Easter stuck within me" 01/04/1910
Paco Pérez Bryan journalist and music expert. "It's stupid to underestimate traditions that are part of our history"
Processions are primordial in the life of Paco Perez Bryan, journalist and music expert. It is so much passion for the Holy Week of Malaga that has inoculated the love of his wife, singer Luz Casal, and various friends, including the New York singer Spin Doctors Chris Barron. At age 52, Bryan Perez has no plans to withdraw from the throne of the Madonna del Gran Poder.
"You're a fan of the Holy Week of Malaga. How came it?
"It all started when I saw the processions as a child with my parents in a store located in the center of Larios street, house Gámez. There were some hillocks in the window in which, once cleaned, fit people. And from there we watched the parade pass. I was very small, but it was like Easter put me into a vein.
- What were your early brethren?
"The first fraternity in which I left with eight or nine years, was the passion, accompanied by one of the children he saw me at home processions Gámez. We were on servers. The Passion was the brotherhood to which my father was bound by those dates. Later as a teenager, coincided with the change of men and boys throne paid students. He started taking the Christ of Humiliation with my class mates. I was at St. Stanislaus College, in El Palo.
- And how did you come to the Confraternity of Mercy?
"As happens in these things. We had a friend who was in the Perchelera and told us that if we wanted to take the throne of the Chiquito, because he had taken the men paid. Many classmates brought Jesus of Mercy this year that there were no people who charged for it. That happened in the early seventies. When the guild decided, one or two years later, which would abolish men paid the throne throne of the Virgin, youth we were in Christ we turn to the Perchelera. And since then the sack. Is possibly one of the oldest in the throne, although I think my 52 years young.
- Can not you felt like retiring from the poles?
"No, no, no. Remove the throne on Holy Thursday is one of my great moments of the year. I have not been crossed his mind to quit. I feel fine. Even the previous week, try to do a little exercise to be fitter. Also, I have been fortunate that one of my best friends, Chris Barron, lead singer of Spin Doctors in New York, comes to Holy Week in Malaga more than ten years. One day he said he wanted take the throne of the Madonna del Gran Poder. It does so for three years. And I know that puts the shoulder with a passion.
- What is it about the thrones that keeps it so many years people in them and do not want to leave?
"In my case, you may experience the contrast that comes from being in a world like the show and the music, which sometimes is too much business and suddenly, spending eight hours with people that binds you to be under the poles. It also influences the devotion to the image. For me, going to the Broad Street, both the outward and the return of the procession, is something very special. I go with the creeps. I do not know what is the street, but I'm excited. Take a throne is a cluster of feelings difficult to explain.
"That passion for the Holy Week has been able to pass it on to his wife, Luz Casal, and friends.
"Of course. This Easter has been my friend and journalist Beatrice Peck, and Chris Barron, with his family, traveling from New York specifically, and a friend of mine in Asturias. And, of course, my wife, who is the sister of Mercy and she loves the Easter of Malaga and enjoys very much.
"Something will have water when they bless. I say this because sometimes Malaga do not realize the importance of Holy Week Right?
"I think underestimate stupid traditions that are part of our history. I certainly am not the one who despises. I think about the past builds the future. I would consider something stupid if I was Holy Week, for example, camping in Valencia. On the other hand, respect for people who do not like, but in my case I like, I love and is a week that I live so intensely that lasts a month. Beauty is something so plastic. It is also a source of art, which keeps alive the baroque.
- what he likes most is stroll to see the procession?
-Streetwise is something I've done all my life and what I like. Always attempt to surprise me with something new.
