The singer-songwriter, who does not give up recording albums, will close the tour on December 23 of next year in Barcelona
December 23, 2022 will be the last time Joan Manuel Serrat can be seen on stage. The Spanish singer has announced that he will retire from the stage after the tour that will begin on April 27, 2022 in New York and in which he will travel through Latin America and Spain until the end in Barcelona, as announced by his record company through a statement.
Under the title ‘El vicio de cantar 1965-2022’, this tour will serve to “say goodbye personally to the public with whom he has shared life and songs for more than half a century.” What I have decided is to say goodbye in person. I didn’t like feeling fired by a plague, “explained the 77-year-old singer in an interview in ‘El País’.
Although at the moment more details about the tour and the cities will be played are unknown, the singer has revealed that he will continue working away from the stage. «I will play and compose at home, it is possible that I will record an album. But I will not return to the stage, “he says. However, it does not give explanations about the reasons for leaving the scenarios after a period “of forced inactivity, forced by the global pandemic of covid-19.”
Joan Manuel Serrat performed for the first time in public on February 18, 1965 in the program ‘Radioescope’ on Radio Barcelona and the last time he was seen on stage was on February 12, 2020. That day he performed with Joaquín Sabina inside of a joint tour of both and in which the artist from Jaén suffered a fall from the pit of the Wizink Center in Madrid, which forced his hospitalization and a long convalescence.
More than 30 albums
Born in Barcelona in 1943, the author of ‘Mediterráneo’ clarifies that his goodbye to live shows does not imply that he is going to move away from music. “I will not return to the stage, but I will say goodbye not to the French, but as appropriate,” explains one of the most prominent figures of modern song, both in Spanish and Catalan.
Pioneer of what was called ‘Nova Cançó’, Joan Manuel Serrat has published more than 30 albums throughout his career. Among them are titles such as ‘Traditional songs’, ‘La paloma’, ‘Per al meu amic’, ‘Every crazy person with his theme’, ‘Sincerely teu’, ‘Love poem’, ‘Utopia’, ‘No one is perfect’ , ‘The taste is ours’ (with Ana Belén, Miguel Ríos and Víctor Manuel) or’ Two birds with one stone ‘(with Joaquín Sabina), and among its songs there are authentic hymns such as, in addition to the aforementioned’ Mediterráneo ‘,’ Penelope ‘,’ Lucia ‘,’ Blessed ‘or’ Words of love ‘.
Serrat has been awarded in 2009 with the I National Prize for Current Music, he has received other high distinctions, such as his appointment as Knight of the Legion of Honor of the French Republic or the award of the Gold Medal of Merit in Fine Arts , the Commendation of Civil Merit and the Honor Prize of the Music Awards.
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