Seville, Jul 3 (EFE).- Ricky Martin’s tour of Spain began twenty minutes before eleven o’clock at night. The Puerto Rican singer has 12 more dates on his agenda. He opened his tour in Seville as a continuation of his relationship with the city, which he got to know through its April Fair.
A quasi-love relationship between the singer and everything that the capital of Andalusia means to him, which tonight, on the stage of the Iconic SantaLucía Sevilla Fest, he recalled coincided in its genesis with the birth of ‘María’, in 1995, that song that, for him, is the song that they always ask him for, the one that everyone dances and sings at his concerts.
And for that reason, because he believes that Seville brought him luck almost 30 years ago, he wanted to start his tour of Spain in the south of the south, because “you are like a lucky charm,” he said on stage, confessing that he feels enchanted when he steps foot in this corner, because it was where “a divine relationship began between this Puerto Rican and you.” “Seville, how are you? It’s not a question, I confirm it, how are you!” and off we go.
An almost tropical night
When Ricky Martin said this to the thousands he gathered tonight in Seville’s Plaza de España, he had already given them ‘Pégate’ and the aforementioned ‘María’, and had his people at his feet, surrendered to his way of singing, of moving, and of wearing the rigorous black suit he chose to begin his Spanish tour.
It is true that the almost 35 degrees of the tropical night in Seville have taken the suit off the second song, and from then on he has moved more dressed for the occasion, accompanied by his orchestra and a group of seven dancers, four boys and three girls. It was regarding “dancing all night, so that we forget regarding everything and they are happy”, and he has achieved it.
Ricky Martin is much more than an artist, he is a musical heritage of humanity. And not immaterial, precisely. His prodigious physique and his way of transmitting music is something only reserved for a select few, and on this tour he is giving it his all. He is one of those singers who fills a stage, without any need for loud bangs of lights or multiple screens that sometimes distract more than they accompany the star of the night.
Non-stop dancing, sometimes slow
“Because I was busy in heaven, I forgot that life is better on the ground…” In the sky of Seville, ‘Asignatura pendientes’ is playing, one of those ballads created for a night like this, placed alongside several others strategically in the repertoire to give the dancers a break, while Ricky whispers to thousands of ears that he has “several reasons to be right, that there is no worse reason than oblivion.”
It is a two-hour show with the best of someone who dominates Latin pop, dance, reggaeton and salsa, trying to bring together, and it is impossible, in a single night the best of a figure who has won more than 200 awards, including two Grammys, five Latin Grammys, and an impressive series of recognitions such as five MTV Video Music Awards, two American Music Awards, and three Latin American Music Awards, among many others.
And this has only just begun, because this Thursday the team, the artistic one at least, is taking a break, but on Friday they will perform in Murcia, on Saturday in Pozoblanco (Córdoba), and from there they will take to the roads and planes to be in A Coruña, Granada, Badajoz, Cádiz, Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, Huesca, La Palma and Palma de Mallorca.
In all those corners you will see Ricky Martin the singer, the one who has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the one who heads The Ricky Martin Foundation, an organization dedicated to fighting human trafficking and promoting education regarding this serious problem, Enrique Martín born in San Juan in 1972 and forever consecrated to conquer territories across the seas by the work and grace of his vocal cords.
Fermin Cabanillas
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2024-07-08 20:25:11