It would be an easy source to say Despite everything Joaquín Sabina’s first concert Alicante Arena it was a success. Because only the most skeptical More precisely, those who knew the man from Úbeda the least and followed his career and life the least thought that this would not be possible.
More than 7,000 people, over 7,000 voices, and over 14,000 hands have brought Sabina back to her favorite place. scenario as scary as love and he returned sing, play and count a part of his repertoire that is also the long string of his life.
Which is the quietest sound? Well yes. What sings slower? All right. What spends most of the concert sitting down? This is true. But the truth and the important thing about Sabina is, 74 years old continues to sing beautiful and keep getting excited He is in this hand-to-hand relationship with the public, whom he knows he will manage so well, regaining his health after falling off the stage at the Wizink Center in Madrid in 2020.
As a statement of intent, when i was young he was the first to play one of his top twenty songs. chanted by an audience making it clear from the first note that he has already won them.
“What a pleasure it is to play in an arena again and when the Mediterranean is right there,” he said. and remembered it Holidays in Altea and how he saw the advertised concert in this square, and how “Serrat, who would later become my brother, and I came to see him.”
With feel it so muchThe theme that gives its name to the documentary, signed by Fernando León de Aranoa and about his life, is the singer’s private confession, LeivaAlthough he said “I always wanted to grow old without dignity” about his now and after, he has not succeeded so far.
they also made noise i deny everything And marble tearswith the seal of his great friend Benjamin Prado and also On the boulevard of white lies, broken dreamstribute to your lover Chavela Vargasanyone It’s raining, it’s pouring.
leave the group
Welcoming Elche reporter Mónica Carrillo, Sabina took her usual rest from the warrior. Something he always does. With the singer-songwriter off stage, the band drummer Pedro Barcelo “I found in Formentera del Segura” – commented I want to be the daughter of Almodóvarwith his voice Mara MarcosAnd The most beautiful song in the worldunder the responsibility antonio garcia de diego (“who sings better than me”), in which Sabina joins the last stanza and is back in her arena.
very young and very old anyone A song for Magdalena The first lines of 19 days and 500 nights were sung by the booming public when he began to sing in his rough voice “Our thing lasted, as long as two ice fish in one whiskey lasted”.
After traveling from Germany to New York, passing through “lightly packed” Madrid, city fishand remember that And yet “I dream of you when I sleep without you,” he said goodbye for the first time. Princess with rock rhythms.
He came back and sang that beautiful song. With you. And there are teneven though it’s half past eleven.
On Friday, the Plaza de Toros is packed again. Different people, different voices and different hands. However Joaquin Sabina will be the same.