Tears, smiles, endless applause and many emotions are what he scatter and accumulate. Joan Manuel Serrat on farewell tour He said he had traveled the world in the last eight months and ended this week with three concerts in Barcelona to conclude the tour.
such a trip it ends where it began, in this “thousand-faced” city where he was born 78 years ago.where he started his professional career 58 years ago and inspired many of his universal songs.
Ever since he announced a year ago that he would say goodbye to the stage with a “ceremonial” tour, his fellow countrymen had been waiting for him with interest. would visit all the countries where his friends and followers werewhich are many and which end in Barcelona.
The first concert of this last yawn will be Tuesday, December 20, and the last concert will be on Friday, December 23, four days before her anniversary, on the 27th of the same month, the day she turns 79.
It has been 12 months since he announced his retirement, but many still cannot digest the fact that they will never be able to listen to the songs that accompanied them in their lifetime.
It’s not easy for Serrat as he admits, and maybe that’s why he’s insisted on leaving the stage many times in recent months, but not his music or his life.
He will continue to walk the streets, greet his friends and perhaps compose new songs and record records.
“I used to sing here until I left Bofe, but neither likes to show off”he said at his concert in Madrid and here is the key, because Serrat is not going because he can’t go on, he’s leaving because he wants to be the one who sets his own expiration date.
He marked the date, December 23, 2022, as well as forms, and during the tour he insisted on asking the public to forget “nostalgia and melancholy” in order to “cheerfully” say goodbye.
But nostalgia has permeated all concerts and will no doubt be so at the concert in Barcelonabecause his poems invite them to this, and because Serrat’s songs mark intimate moments and revive memories in his listeners.
Not feeling nostalgic while listening to the songs played on the tour, ‘Mediterranean’, ‘Lucía’ or ‘Aquellas pequeñas cosas’ live for the last time.
Although ‘El vicio de cantar 1965-2022’ repertoire also includes songs in different tones such as ‘Today may be a great day’, ‘For Freedom’ or ‘Fiesta’.
A repertoire of just over 20 songs that he has directed on this tour and chosen every night from around 70 songs that change at each concert.
Most of his recitals started with ‘Dale que dale’ and ‘Mi niñez’ and ended with ‘Penélope’ and ‘Fiesta’, but in the recitals he has presented in Catalonia so far he has done so with Catalan songs. “Temps era temps” or “Paraules d’amor” so anything can happen in Barcelona.
The tour kicked off at the Beacon Theater in New York on April 27, where he tried to close with ‘Fiesta’ and “we’re going downhill / we’re on my street / the party is over” but the audience insisted on Bisler and came back to sing “Esos locos bajitos” returned.
It then continued through Miami, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Spain, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay.in a tour that sold out fast and the dates doubled, until the final figure was reached: 74 concerts, 45 of which were in Spain.
With five very emotional recitals in which he told anecdotes about his long-term relationship with Argentina, the city with the most concerts was Buenos Aires.
It’s something he also does in many other cities in Latin America, which is his second home.
Tomorrow he returns to Barcelona, the first to say goodbye, but as he says in Buenos Aires: “I just came to say goodbye to the scenes, not to say goodbye to the people, to the country. It is the love that unites us”.