{"id":22115,"date":"2025-11-03T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/?p=22115"},"modified":"2026-09-25T13:46:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:46:34","slug":"miqui-puig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/hogar\/miqui-puig","title":{"rendered":"Miqui Puig: \u2018Being able to put on a record whenever I want, that for me is home\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miqui Puig: \u2018Being able to put on a record whenever I want, that for me is home\u2019<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The singer, DJ and radio presenter opens the door to his home and explains why beauty sometimes fits inside a freshly baked bread roll<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
3 November 2025 by Claudia Romero<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Miqui Puig (L\u2019Ametlla del Vall\u00e8s, 1968) was the leader of Los Sencillos, the band that defined Spanish pop in the nineties with tracks such as It is pretty<\/em> y Evil woman<\/em>. Since then she has been a solo singer, a DJ at festivals such as S\u00f3nar and Primavera Sound, a TV judge and, for the last eight years, the daily voice of Wooden track<\/em>, your dance music show on Catalunya R\u00e0dio. A pop dandy, elegant and showman, who published his first book in 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have asked him to open his front door in La Porter\u00eda, the most gossipy section of our Real People podcast<\/a>of what it sounds like, of what it won't negotiate and of what I would buy tomorrow if I could.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tell us about yourself and your work. Where did your vocation come from? <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I always say that I am a singer and that I make a living from singing and the surrounding activities. Since I can\u2019t devote myself 100 percent to just making songs, selling them, and singing them, I\u2019ve been lucky enough to be on the radio, playing gigs, and writing. I don\u2019t really know where the vocation comes from: they say that my grandfather saw me singing on the stairs in my parents\u2019 house when I was little, and that\u2019s where he said, he would pass the plate to collect the money<\/strong>\u2026 He wasn\u2019t entirely wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of home?<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Pancho. She's our dog, our Border Collie, a beauty of five years old that walks around here and that When I arrive from the party, she greets me with many kisses<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What smell or sound makes you feel instantly at home?<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For me they are more sounds than smells, although I really like smells too. But the important things are Pancho's barking and my sound system, one downstairs and one upstairs: one for the study and one for leisure. Being able to put on a record whenever I want, that to me is home.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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What is your non-negotiable factor when choosing a place to live?<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, the non-negotiable factor right now is being able to afford it. I'm a self-employed performer: I pay for all my own shows, all my own productions, and paying the rent regularly is non-negotiable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How has your experience with estate agents been?<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Always very empathetic. An artist needs a space to work and create<\/strong>, And it also requires flexibility in many legal aspects. With the agents, we have always had a very good relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A great plan at home always includes...<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wine, friends, discos, blankets, series: everything that is comfort and is home. I spend so many hours traveling and working for others, between waiting in hotels and airports, that at home I look for very simple things<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What song have you had on repeat at home lately?<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I am making the programme Wooden track<\/em> for eight years now, so there are songs that stick to my cortex in an inexplicable way. Right now it's Passion Fruit<\/em>, by a New York band called Gilligan Moss: the home track of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which item in your house would you say is very you? <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We have a huge M-shaped sign from the garden that belonged to Com R\u00e0dio, the radio station where I worked for many years. When they dismantled it and changed the name, I kept the whole sign: the friends shared the rest of the letters and I kept the M. For Miqui, for my partner and for many more things<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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If you could buy anything for your home right now, what would it be? Anything goes!<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I'd love to buy loads and loads of new towels, loads of new blankets, practical things for day-to-day life. I bloody love the word comfort for a house.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you imagine the home of the future?<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, by dedicating myself to what I do, I believe the future will be common: sharing nice houses among friends with the same affinities<\/strong>. It all leads to exorbitant prices and a certain real estate madness, but I wish we could live like this, with good character.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Miqui<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

What do you find most satisfying about your work?<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To see that other people care, to a greater or lesser extent. To see the faces of satisfaction of the people when they are below the stage, singing or playing, or when they stop me in a gas station to tell me that they are fans of the radio show: that's worth it<\/strong>. It is worth it even in the moments of doubt and fear that have accompanied me for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What inspires you?<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I always say that beauty inspires me. And Beauty for me is a tree, good architecture, Pancho's hair<\/strong>, The wheel of a motorcycle, the stitching in an old coat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00abBeautiful and well-made things, especially those made by artisans: even a good bread roll before you cut it. There is inspiration in that too.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Favourite colour, book and film, in that order!<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n
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\"Miqui<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Amidst Pancho's barking, vinyl records and a letter M bearing his name lit up over the garden, Miqui Puig<\/a> he defends an idea of a home without artifice: one built on comfort, friends all around and the beauty hidden, he says, even in a freshly baked bread roll.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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