Lali Espósito returned to appear in one of the most popular programs on Spanish TV and once once more left unmissable anecdotes and phrases. One of them: the details and behind the scenes of her unexpected participation in the 2022 Qatar World Cup final, where she sang the Argentine anthem before the match once morest France.
Invited to the popular cycle the anthillThe woman born in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Parque Patricios was asked if it was true that she had been called to invite her to perform only 20 hours before the last World Cup match.
“Yeah, like it was nonsense. One does that every day. No, some nerves”, the actress also answered first. red sky, soon to release its third season. Then she assured that for her it was “an ordeal all before” because she had not planned to participate in Qatar beyond her place as a fan of the national team.
“I was partying in Qatar, I was out for a walk, I was enjoying the World Cup as just another tourist,” explained the singer. “And he had a voice like that because he had a party the day before,” she added, imitating a sound like a bad throat.
Later, Lali recounted how when she received the call from her team with the invitation to sing in the final, she began to cry and felt that she was not going to be able to face the challenge. In this sense, she highlighted the support she received from the group of friends she was with in the Middle East. “They told me: ‘You are the woman who is going to sing the anthem at the world finals, come on, you can’”.
“There you feel that you have no talent, that you cannot, that you are not worthy of such an opportunity. I had a lot of nerves in the preview, a lot, ”she stressed. There she said that she had to go shopping to find a suitable dress for the occasion. “Everything is too big for me, I am half a dwarf. So he would go through all the brands, trying on dresses and crying in the changing rooms. I seriously thought regarding singing naked with the Argentine flag, ”he added humorously.
Lali, delivered to destiny
“At 10 at night I bought the dress and the next day at 11 in the morning I was at the dress rehearsal. FIFA people yelling, gringos saying things I didn’t understand, ”she later commented on the moments before his performance.
As an extra unforeseen event, Lali was unable to test the sound because her version of the anthem, due to her vocal range, was two tonalities higher than the one FIFA had. when they put play to the song In the general rehearsal, the one requested by Argentina did not sound and due to the times there was no chance that Lali sang on the correct track. The only thing the artist might do was “surrender to fate”, according to what she herself said.
“They almost lost me there, imagine the nerve. They didn’t let me rehearse once more, a whole situation, and I went to the dressing room praying to God that when I went out in front of millions of people they put play al track that it was”, revealed Esposito.
“I went out giving myself over to fate, thinking regarding my father, regarding my friends with painted faces from Argentina watching TV, and it all came down to something as simple as: I don’t know how I’m going to sing it, but I sing it with my heart, which is what matters in this circumstance, for my loves of life ”, closed before being applauded by the audience.
Later, moreover, the protagonist of the end of love showed how to really sing Guys, now we got excited once morethe World Cup hit created from a song by La Mosca Tsé-Tsé.
“It is not sung well,” he assured before showing that if the song is sung normally it does not have the same effect that is heard when the harangue is sung by a tribune. The solution according to Lali? Smile and keep the gesture in the mouth while she is encouraged.
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