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With more than five decades of career, Joaquín Sabina” class=”com-link”>Joaquin Sabina has decided that it is time to say goodbye to the stage. The poet and singer-songwriter will celebrate his last tour, Hello and goodbyewith two shows in Buenos Aires, which will be the last opportunities to enjoy his poetry turned into song live.
At 75 years old, the Spanish artist will perform in Buenos Aires with two concerts, on March 24 and 26, 2025, at the Movistar Arena stadium, and tickets for both events will go on sale soon.
The tour will begin in February next year in America with a journey that will pass through Mexico, the United States, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina for 11 weeks. After a brief pause, it will continue through Spain and Europe, ending in November. The dates, cities and ticket sales for the shows that the maestro from Úbeda will give in these lands will be announced this month, while for Spain they will be announced in September.
Sabina recently offered a tour that defied all expectations, with more than 700,000 spectators in almost 60 concerts in around a dozen countries. Throughout these encounters, according to the producers of the shows in a statement, “the artist gave his all, excited and moved people to that point of magical alchemy where fervent applause, tears of emotion and that encouragement with which, if it had been possible, he would have been carried on shoulders following each of the recitals come together.”
And they add: “In the warmth of that honey and out of the simple courtesy of not leaving the party without saying goodbye, Sabina has decided to go back on stage to say hello for the last time before closing the curtain. A tour where we can say, where we can say: ‘hello and goodbye’.”
With his latest tour, the musician confirms that “there will be no more endless journeys through crowded venues”, although “he keeps up his sleeve the ace of reappearing at will, either because the muses whisper poems or songs worth sharing, or because he feels the urge to get up on any stage to pay tribute to himself or herself”.
“Hello and Goodbye will be the multitudinous farewell of a throat that, without distilling, exudes impious and shameless truth; of an iconic silhouette outlined with cigarette smoke and whiskey without soda. Of course, that outdated essence will never stop writing the stories and songs that will always haunt his mind. The profession of the poet does not intend to retire, nor does that of the nocturnal creator,” they add.
They also point out: “With this farewell tour, a circle has been closed that spans half a century since his first public appearances when he performed on the street in the London Underground, during his self-exile in the final days of Franco’s regime. An uncertain starting point for someone who, following riding on the back of the dizzying eighties with a beautiful urban lyricism that exceeded the scope of the singer-songwriter, crossed the border of prophet in his own land during the nineties to definitively enter the new millennium under the category of international myth: from Tierra del Fuego to the Sonoran Desert, preceded by a dissolute legend and a solid and impressive torrent of indelible songs housed in a totemic discography that, as has already been happening, will continue to be studied in the books of the History of the popular heritage.”
“That City subway had stops in store for Joaquín on the most legendary stages in the world: the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Luna Park and La Bombonera in Buenos Aires, the Olympia in Paris, the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, the National Auditorium and the Zócalo in Mexico City, Madison Square Garden in New York, the Wizink and Las Ventas in Madrid… Venues, some of which, will once once more feel, for the last time, the light weight of Flaco, the heavy weight of his songs, in this next and definitive ‘Hello and Goodbye’”, they conclude.
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