“Until always Malaga, it was a great night,” With these words, Joaquín Sabina has said goodbye to the public at the end of the first of the two concerts with which he says goodbye to the city on his tour Hello and goodbyewith which he ends five decades of musical career.
A 36 -performing tour, which began its journey in Spain in early May in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and will pass through Madrid, Zaragoza, Pamplona, Sevilla, Alicante, Palma de Mallorca, Coruña or Gijón. He will also take him to his native Úbeda (Jaén).
A high chair, a table and a microphone on stage and 7,500 spectators in the auditorium have received Between cheers and applause to a smiling sabinawho wore his typical white Bombín, when the final planes of the video clip ‘one waltz’ were still seen on the screens of Martín Carpena.
The singer -songwriter has greeted and before an audience, who has been unconditional, has sung or rather recited with his characteristic broken voice, perhaps more waterfall than on other occasions for the emotion of the farewell, ‘marble tears’. And so With an auditorium full and wrapped by his bandhas officially started the first concert in the Peninsula from which, because of the farewell, it promises to be a very emotional tour, no doubt.
Memories, confidences and tears
During the almost two hours that Sabina’s performance has been extended for everything, for music, memories and jokes, to share confidences with those present and even for tears when the final stretch of the show arrives. Sabina has confessed a defender of the Spanish coupletin which he has found inspiration in the occasional occasion because, as he said, “the muses are furtive and capricious and one does not know where they are waiting for him.”
Musician, singer and composer committed, with some poet, in his songs there is much of him – as could not be otherwise – and he has recognized it While remembered the close relationship that unites Malaga Already a corner of the Pedregalejo neighborhood.
Among the public, the mayor of the city, Francisco de la Torre; singer Vanesa Martín, or basketball coach Sergio Scariolo, who They have not wanted to miss the first of the two concerts With those that the artist says goodbye to Malaga and in which days ago he has hung the ‘Sold out’ poster (exhausted). They have been many times that the public has already put to dance their songs, although the euphoria has been maximum when the turn of 19 days and 500 nights and Melancholy street.
An enforced auditorium
With April, Wedding nights and They gave us the ten The auditorium has roared and the attendees, again standing, have sung next to the artist, visibly pleased but, above all, very excited. Converted into an icon of Spanish music, the singer -songwriter -who turned 76 in February – He has decided to put the blind to the business and close five successful decades of musical careerwhich have led him to act in the world.
With Hello and goodbyeJoaquín Sabina returns to say goodbye to stages such as the Royal Albert Music Hall in London (May 22), a city that It was his home during his years of exile, or the Olympia of Paris (May 25), where tickets have already been exhausted.
Has published about twenty records, 17 studio and seven livein which he has acted alone, but also with other very relevant artists of the music scene in Spanish such as Joan Manuel Serrat, Victor Manuel, Ana Belén or Fito Páez.
With that of Rosario (Argentina) he recorded his first job with another singer -songwriter, Intimate enemiesbut during the recording in Buenos Aires Sabina and Páez ended up throwing the dishes at the head. While over the years, The friendship between both musicians managed to impose themselves and reconciled. For his beloved Argentina and for Buenos Aires, where he has said that he is his second home, he has also had a memory during this Friday’s concert, in which ‘with you’ and ‘Princess’ have put the gold brooch at night Malaga.
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