songs Joan Manuel Serrat latin american music since the 70’s. emotional education from different generations. A password between parents and children. Concerts in the area ‘Failure to sing’, farewell tour you took it with you Argentina, Mexican, Hot pepper, Peru, Venezuelan, Colombia Y UruguayAmong other countries, he revealed the intense family relationship established with that voice, that body, and above all, a repertoire that defies all kinds of anachronisms to which the digital age has exposed music.
Reactions were repeated in all the cities he went to: endless applause and cries of “another, another”, one more song, as if that way they could make up for the approaching silence. “Serrat redone all the spells for two and a half hours,” the newspaper said. Page 12 about the presentation Buenos Aires. He added that the public is doing “everything possible to stretch themselves”. last night“. to stop by Lime He joked about his own grief as he left. “I know it’s hard, but from now on, just think we have a future.” and in one Black eyebrows asked me not to take it Good bye “with melancholy or nostalgia”.
No one will forget him as he slipped from the promise of new records. If not, who wouldn’t remember? sing a song, Mediterrenian, penelope or many other pearls buried in memory? “What is the song?”, asked at various concerts. And he quoted the public based on the definition presented to him by Alexa’s artificial intelligence. RAE. “What aseptic coldness of academics. A song is words and music, but speaking is music and saying words,” he said. A song it is also a way of establishing an emotional agreement that vibrates in the air. This unwritten agreement was not only about pleasure, but also about gratitude. So most of those who grew up with Serrat follow the same principle: they don’t criticize him. That would be self-defeating.
connection Argentines history with singer-songwriter October 1969When he first landed in Buenos Aires, a pre-conciliation dictatorship it cracked and he found new words and melodies in his repertoire. Serrat’s enormous success was partly attributed to a television show. Circular Saturdays. From there, it continued to revive the February carnivals. The Catalan became one more resident of the Argentine capital. became a fan Boca Juniorsbecause he ruled Alfredo Di Stefanoand i fell in love tangoHe played in his childhood home.
Process youth political radicalization songs with their own lines or Antonio Machado Y miguel hernandez This came as good news. expired It was a kind of cultural triumph, and even the dictatorship itself understood it in 1976, not only censoring their records but using them as background music for torture sessions to silence the desperate cries of the prisoners.
Argentina reclaimed its institutions in 1983 and rescued Serrat as well. The same thing happened in Uruguay and Chile after the defeat of the dictatorship in the 1988 referendum. nanoas they always say, it was more than a casual visit alone or accompanied. Main Belen, miguel rios, Victor Manuel or next to Joaquin Sabina.
the author Party In many cases, he himself deserved preferential treatment from some leaders trained by his work. “Always, since the year 70, I dedicate myself to Chile “El vicio de cantar and its political and vital project on the Chilean scale,” said Serrat, after being accepted by the president. gabriel boricwho he praises for his devotion and the absence of a negative past. “It feels clean in that sense and therefore freedom of movement.”
Mexicans applauded him during the concert in the Zócalo, and among them, Manuel Andres Lopez Obrador. The President invited him to the Executive center and announced it through social networks like a good fan. “Serrat visited us. We were on the main balcony of the palace and were seeing the murals. Diego Rivera. Saw Marx’neither dead nor buried’. If I didn’t have to go to the Guerrero mountains, I would be at your concert in Zócalo. It’s pure, clean and human poetry.”
Serrat didn’t stop feeling like another Latin American. your disc There is also the southBased on Uruguayan texts Mario Benedetti as material proof of this devotion and so many times the aseptic singer left his place and did not care about the possibility of taking a position on political situations. She celebrated her election victory in Buenos Aires. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva against the far-right Jair Bolsonaro. “His victory is a very good event not only for Brazil, but for America in general and the world in particular.” For more than half a century, only Brazil, as a foreign region or indifferent to the heart-rending Catalan music, has remained. region.