The Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Theater, in Bogotá, hosted this Friday, November 8, the first of the concerts of the tour – significantly titled ‘Thanks Tour’ – with which Paloma San Basilio says goodbye to the stage. After the capital, three other Colombian cities will follow until the end of the year: Barranquilla, Medellín and Cali, before traveling to Chile, where he will offer five more concerts, and Lima. Already in 2025 the tour will resume in Spain: Granada, Málaga, Jaén, Roquetas de Mar, Huelva, Córdoba, Seville and Jerez are the confirmed cities for now. This is, in fact, the second time that Paloma San Basilio has cut her ponytail. «In 2013 I did a farewell tour in which I said goodbye to concerts and records, because I wanted to start doing other things. I started painting and exhibiting, I wrote two books, I did things like a show with ‘The Choir Boys’, ‘The Tenth Muse’ at the Mérida Festival, ‘Sunset Boulevard’ in Tenerife… But the music was still inside me , somewhere. And all of this allowed me to metabolize the fact that the cycle had to be closed at some point. And that moment has arrived. I think it’s the right time and that I can leave with my head held high, at ease, still feeling that the stage is a magical place. And I have to thank the public for how they have treated me all these years. I have, more than the need to say goodbye or leave music, the need to hug them again. “”All these years” that Paloma San Basilio talks about are actually fifty. In 2025 it will be half a century since her first album, ‘Sombras’, was published, and the career of one of the most important Spanish pop artists of recent decades will begin. And yes, his intention is to leave music. «My idea is that it is in a very incidental way; I don’t see myself doing concerts, musicals or recording albums. Maybe, suddenly, I’ll make some recordings with my daughter, who makes beautiful compositions, but it would be something else, to be together. The singer needs to “take the leap to another place,” and she wants to do it by “looking people in the face, thanking them and sharing a party with them; That’s how this tour is planned, like a party where everyone can sing with me my usual songs and other wonderful songs that we’ve all sung.” Emotion Aren’t you afraid that emotion will get the better of you? «I cry almost always, without it needing to be a farewell, so imagine now. But I’m going to be very accompanied, starting with my daughter, Ivana, who is very involved… But I insist, I want it to be a party, and not to put too much emphasis on nostalgia and farewell. I am going to continue; Next year my next book will be published, I’m going to do theater – Juan Carlos Rubio is writing a monologue for her titled ‘Dulcinea’ -… I’ve been wanting to do it for a long time, I like acting almost more than singing, and as an actress I have a lot to learn… But having the audacity to go on stage without singing seems like an adventure to me. And I want to continue adventuring as far as I am capable. Being an artist is that, never settling. «Our obligation is to transform reality, create parallel worlds and always have that point of illusion from when you were a child and they told you that they were going to take you to the amusement park. I take it very seriously, with a lot of responsibility, but I don’t want to lose the feeling of discovery, of risk.” To some extent, Paloma San Basilio confesses, her decision has had to do with the current evolution of music, so different. from half a century ago. «Each era generates its own needs, its own offers, its own spaces. I don’t think it’s necessary to stay tied to a specific one, because it’s also possibly getting smaller and smaller. I have had a career spanning fifty years, something I didn’t even imagine when I started. It has been a very nice career and I have been able to do many things, not just records. The world of disco is very good, but it has its limitations. On stage the only limit is that the audience decides that they are not going to see you and expels you.” public, and that they don’t just see the singer. «When I started my ‘shows’ were very American: I danced, I had costume changes… And people gave more importance to the external than to the songs and my voice, so I decided to change them and give the voice its place. Now something similar happens to me, my voice has eclipsed my work as an actress; Obviously I have been growing and I think now is the time to let out that actress inside me, that person who loves to use space, words, emotions. Paloma San Basilio doesn’t like it, she admits, looking back: «Sometimes it makes me sad because of the absences, because of the losses, because when you look back, for example at a photo, you see everything that was there behind it: the struggles, the difficulties, the shortcomings… Furthermore, when you stand in one place you see how it falls apart, that’s why I move; before the rubble invades me. That’s why he likes the sea. «It’s my charger. I love it, I love it, I feel very free in the water. I was born in Madrid, but I am a water sign. In the sea I rise again; When I have had difficult moments or I have been sad about something, I have gone into the sea, even crying, and I have felt discharged… Its freshness, being able to dive, jump the waves – which is something I did until three days ago -, it gives me such pleasure, it regenerates me so much, it makes me feel so protected… That’s why, when I started painting, I did it by the sea.” Related News standard No ART The Kings of Spain present the Gold Medals for Merit in the fine arts in Tenerife Laura Bautista standard No ‘Incredible Duos’ bets on Spanish music in an edition with several new features Clara Mollá PagánDoes Paloma San Basilio have any accounts left to settle, anything to do? «There is always something more that can be done, things that I could have done and didn’t do. But you have to be a little generous with yourself and think about a situation you overcame, a magical moment you experienced or someone you sang with… And you say: I can’t complain, I have to be very proud of what I have done. made. It’s not narcissism, it’s justice. Truly, I have done more than I thought I was capable of. Everything that comes to me now will be a gift.”AppearancesPaloma San Basilio has swum, and swims, in a profession where the verb ‘to appear’ is constantly conjugated. However, she has not created, she assures, any character. «No, I couldn’t, that would be like clipping my wings. This profession is a space of freedom, and if you mortgage it, why are you here? If that freedom means that you have to create something parallel to protect yourself or so that others see in you something that you would like them to see but that you don’t have, you are out of focus. I think I couldn’t, that I wouldn’t know, it would be like living in a corset. Many times it is out of fear or comfort; People settle in a comfortable and safe space from which they do not want to move. But what he doesn’t know is what he could achieve if he got out of there, which is a wonderful thing. On the other hand, this does not allow you to be permeable, and you end up feeding into a vicious circle of yourself. I am the same anywhere and I am not afraid to be as I am, with my limitations and my failures. I believe, above all, that the honest thing to do is to tell people who you really are, not to deceive them. There is a lot of imposition in this profession and everyone chooses what they want to do, but I don’t like it… I wouldn’t be able to.
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