Esther Gómez
Malaga (Spain), May 9 (EFE) .- “Until always Málaga, it has been a great night”, with these words he has said goodbye to the Malaga public Joaquín Sabina at the end of the first of the two concerts with which he says goodbye to the Andalusian city (south) on his tour ‘Hello and goodbye’, with 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, Seville, Alicante, Palma de Mallorca, Coruña or Gijón; and that 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 a smiling sabina between cheers and applause, who wore his typical white hype, when the Martín Carpena screens were still seen the final planes of the video clip ‘One last waltz’.
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 band, he has officially started the first concert in the Peninsula from which, because of the farewell, he 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 couplet, in 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 themes there is much of him – as could not be otherwise – and he has recognized it while recalling the close relationship that unites Malaga and a corner of the Pedregalejo neighborhood.
Among the public, the mayor of the city, Francisco de la Torre; The singer Vanesa Martín, or the basketball coach Sergio Scariolo, who did not want to miss the first of the two concerts with which the artist says goodbye to Malaga and in which days ago he has hung the poster of ‘Sold Out’ (exhausted).
There 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’ has arrived.
An enforced auditorium
With ‘April’, ‘Wedding nights’ and ‘We were given the ten’ the auditorium has roared and the attendees, again, have sung next to the artist, visibly pleased but, above all, very excited.
Become an icon of Spanish music, the singer -songwriter – who in February he turned 76 – has decided to throw the blind to the business and close five successful decades of musical career, which have led him to act in the middle world.
With ‘Hi and Goodbye’, Joaquín Sabina returns to say goodbye to stages such as the Royal Albert Music Hall in London (May 22), a city that was his home during his years of exile, or the Olympia of Paris (May 25), where the tickets have already been exhausted.
He has published about twenty records, seventeen studio and seven live, in which he has acted alone, but also with other very relevant artists of the Spanish music scene such as Joan Manuel Serrat, Victor Manuel, Ana Belén or Fito Páez.
With that of Rosario (Argentina) he recorded his first work with another singer -songwriter, ‘intimate enemies’, but during the recording in Buenos Aires Sabina and Páez ended up throwing the dishes at the head. While over the years, 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. EFE
