The first movie they went to see in the cinema Michael Poveda It was ‘Superman’. The boy from Badalona, with his black and white television and windows open to the neighborhood, was not impressed by the cape-clad superhero but by the city he was flying over: new York.
In that dark room, Poveda’s mind and dreams opened up to other lives, to other places, to a boundless world. An indelible passion was born for New York, too, especially now Poveda tattooed the city’s ‘skyline’ on his arm. And because what’s been said about New York is pretty true, the city was also marked with the canadian sign this week.
a miraculous effort
this Thursdaywith two years late by tax PandemicPoveda finally stood up to step onto the New York stage. 20th edition of the Flamenco FestivalA rendezvous designed and installed by Miguel Marín, and like the skyscrapers beloved by the singer who had just released ‘Diverso’, it grew and spread throughout the United States at the cost of an effort in his twenty years of life. titanic and sometimes miraculous.
Poveda has returned to Skirball, the New York University theater that has reopened after the coronavirus closed. She did it at a concert that also served to commemorate her 25th anniversary. King Juan Carlos I Center at NYUIt is dedicated to the promotion of Spanish and Spanish culture. And so many reasons for celebration, so many accumulated desires, and so many geniuses gathered on stage, authentic recital.
luxury on stage
Poveda suggested leaving out “everything ugly and bad” from the start. He promised to try to get the existing ones out of Skirball. cheerful spirit. And accompanied him star cast: teacher Joan Albert Amargós on piano, Jesus Warrior on guitar, Paquito Gonzalez in percussion, ‘El Grilo’ and ‘El London’ in applause (the latter also shows his genius in cante) and Flamenco dancer Antonio Molina, ‘El Choro’.
Poveda was the one who sang and singerbard and ballad player, power and control, genius and figure. This sound was the same climate emergency awareness this music claims and popular genres key in their childhood and often underestimated. He became the vehicle of his lover again Federico Garcia Lorca but also dared to take Frank Sinatra’s iconic ‘New York, New York’ via bulerias. Probably nothing would have happened without the videos projected at certain moments of the show, but there’s little left in a concert that can quintessentially warm the cold rainy night: siguiriyas, soleás, malagueñas, guajira, alegrias, tangos…
Poveda has appointments with the Flamenco Festival in Miami and Los Angeles before continuing his tour of Spain. But before that, he offered a second gig in New York this Friday. The ink settles on your skin, leaving its mark on the city.