There is a particularly moving moment in the presentation of “Oliveira dos cen anos”. On stage, two Antón Alvarez emotionally embrace with tears in their eyes. A gesture of compassion, but also of endless gratitude. Son C. Tangana thanks his father for, among many things, conveying his love to certain colors, the love of a club like him Celtic. The father thanks his son for this gift, indeed, for that symbolically-laden hymn to the roots he had to separate himself years ago when he decided to find a life in Madrid. They hug and cry.
Because that hymn, which is already echoing in the minds of the fans, explains many things in his life. The artist details this in a small chat with Manuel Villanueva, Alicia Barreiro and Iago Aspas shortly after: “Between two men who are used to expressing our feelings to each other, for me it’s an homage to what my father gave me. given, land, language, city. It’s all sort of me and my way of telling him and the world.”
It was perhaps the most intense moment of an emotionally charged show, in which Celta presented her centennial hymn to the public. Massive video composed and directed by C.Tangana With the collaboration of a brilliant team of Madrid native’s usual collaborators, a handful of Galician artists coordinated by Antón Alvarez, he blends the Celta feel in a composition that combines traditional Galician music with traditional Galician music, culture of the land, language, roots and landscape. A respect he pays to himself, to his father, but above all to a team and its fans.
What starts with a harmless “Will you let me try?Tangana, which she shared on Twitter and admitted to being little more than a joke yesterday, sparked a world-class creative process that put the finishing touches on last night’s presentation after intense production involving the C.Tangana working group. and local groups that it absorbs from their culture to give meaning and content to the business.
C. Tangana: “For me, being a Celta native was a devastating move”
There is no longer even a shadow of the suspicions he aroused in a section that considers itself very distant from Galician culture. He even incorrectly labeled his Celticism.. Pucho, Antón Álvarez, or C. Tangana if you prefer, made it clear that everything was unfounded. With his effort first, his ability to make such a comprehensive hymn and direct such a powerful video; and later to make a flag of Celticism.
He explained very well yesterday at the Teatro A Fundación: “I am from Madrid, I studied at a school in Carabanchel. No one took a free kick or celebrated goals with a Seagull like Mostovoi.. Suspicion of my Celticism was not new. For me, being from Celta was a devastating move. I always had to shout that I was from Celta. He wanted to convey a way of living active Celticism with the divine. For me this is an act of militancy, it will be more in the club but this is me. Celta is so handsome”.
In the presentation, in which the artist stated that he would cry from the very beginning (like himself), many people who made the anthem possible and worked hand in hand took the stage. Particularly interesting was the small chat with his three regular collaborators (Alizzz, Pablopablo and Harto Rodríguez). With Xisco Feijoo, Sime (Keltoi), Tamara (Lagharteiras), Carmen (Escola Municipal de Música Folk e Tradicional) and the director of the Casablanca Choir.
Everyone talked about the creative process, C.Tangana’s generosity, his desire to learn, his desire to do an “enormous” work (in the author’s own words), and it was also time to realize how bad mistakes and prejudices are. Acknowledging that at first she believed the artist was calling them an alibi, the Keltoi singer said “to whitewash the problem,” but eventually proved them wrong.
But there was also time to listen Alicia Barreira, partner number one “I didn’t want to leave the world with Celta in Division Two” because he realized the pain he suffered in search of permanence; to Iago Aspas, who, as an example of honesty, says “to do what he did in his last game against Barcelona…”, he could have been there the night before recording the video because nothing had happened; or Manuel Villanueva, Mediaset’s content manager, who is trying to sneak Celta into the TV shows or movies they put in as much as he can.
It is already known that the hymns that were once composed belonged to their own people. And now it is Celticism that will own it, say it, love it more or less.. Sometimes chants come naturally, sometimes out of necessity, sometimes because someone has a great idea. This could be the case of “Oliveira dos cen anos”. C. Tangana explained this while talking about why he decided not to sing. First joke, because “everyone here is doing better”; followed by the following sentence: “Because this anthem does not belong to anyone, and even after a hundred years, I do not want it to belong to the club, no matter who did it. It seems like forever, like Celta”.