2023-05-18 23:42:08
The long-awaited return of Luis Miguel to the stage is being a sales success. Tickets for their concerts in Latin America sold out in minutes and in Mexico, the situation has not been less: virtual lines of more than half a million waiting, endless lines of fans waiting outside the venues to get even one ticket, but no one wants to miss out on the sun shining.
To achieve this, Luismi’s team decided to change the venue in the Mexican capital and leave behind the emblematic National Auditorium where it holds the record of 30 consecutive dates, and bet on the Arena Ciudad de México with twice the capacity. And so far, the strategy seems to be working.
Without a doubt it will have full houses where it is presented, but a few yesterdays ago the interpreter of ‘Until you forget me’ and ‘The King’ dreamed of occupying two very particular buildings in Mexico: the National Palace and the Palace of Fine Arts.
Throughout four decades of career, Luismi is recognized as the highest paid Latin singer in Las Vegas, the second prize at the San Remo festival in 1985, he has dominated El Monstruo —considered the most demanding audience at the Viña del Sea in Chile—, filled Madison Square Garden, and being the first Latino with 266 songs with more than a million views on Spotify.
Success and fame have always spoken for him, but they have not been enough on some occasions.
In the summer of 1994, Luis Miguel launched his second novel and celebrated with sixteen performances at the National Auditorium, but what Micky wished it was a concert at the Palacio de Bellas Artes where artists like Pedro Infante and Lola Beltrán had already stepped on stage (Juan Gabriel did it twice, in 1997 and 2013).
Gerardo Estrada, general director of the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA) in the last year of Carlos Salinas de Gortari’s term, refused that request. “I have been one of those who thinks that everything is in its place and that the type of show that makes it popular does deserve to be in Fine Arts, but only with highly established artists. He was still very young at the time.“, he recounted in the podcast Luis Miguel, guilty or not? of the journalist Alberto Tavira.
The agreement he reached with the promoters was for the singer to record a video clip, ‘El día que me quieras’, where he is seen walking the corridors and singing from the box. Some time later, Estrada would meet the artist at a dinner, but he never had the opportunity to ask him if he was happy with the final result of the video.
History repeated itself in the fall of 2001 prior to the release of Mis romancesalthough this time the request came directly from his then Warner record label and the Aries company that they wanted to be granted the Palace of Fine Arts, the National Palace (Aha, where President Andrés Manuel López Obrador currently lives) or including the Alcázar of Chapultepec Castle.
Ignacio Toscano, then director of the INBA during the government of Vicente Fox, was the one who refused, arguing that the commercial intentions were contrary to the cultural policy of the venues. “The presentation of Luis Miguel’s album is not authorized, since this activity has a commercial nature, which does not detract from his recognized quality as a popular singer,” announced in a statement.
The presentation of Mis romances It was scheduled for November 15 and they got the answer a week before, so they had to change their venue and move to Miami, in the spectacular mansion where the designer Gianni Versace was assassinated in 1997.
If it will try to reach Bellas Artes once more, it seems far away, since it has a capacity of 1,590 seats, but it might bet on the Zócalo to break the record held by Grupo Firme, which attracted 280,000 people in 2022.
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