Barcelona turns to Serrat and Estopa within the dana solidarity live performance | News from Catalonia | EUROtoday

The Palau Sant Jordi didn’t fail and hosted 15,000 folks this Friday on the solidarity live performance with the victims of the Valencia catastrophe. Organized by the Generalitat, Barcelona City Council, music sector associations and the corporate The Project, it raised 775,000 euros. The star of the live performance, only one month after the flood, was Joan Manuel Serrat, who opened Barcelona and Valencia on an emotional Sant Jordi, who thought he would have definitively mentioned goodbye to the singer-songwriter from the stage in December 2022. Serrat carried out essentially the most acknowledged songs from his repertoire, songs in each Catalan and Spanish. Judit Neddermann, Andrea Motis and Lucia Fumero took the stage after Serrat whereas the duo Estopa, shaped by brothers David and José Manuel Muñoz closed the night time. The shock got here when Estopa and Serrat sang the music collectively I’m leaving on footby the singer-songwriter. And the crowning glory, all of the artists and musicians on stage receiving the viewers’s ovation.

The veteran Catalan composer, who acquired the 2024 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts in April, mentioned on November 19 from the Barcelona City Council that the live performance is “his grain of sand” within the midst of the devastation attributable to the dana and that “it is no sacrifice to return to the stage, I do not have to face any demon.” Serrat was acquired with the general public standing and effusive applause to sing Lullabywith which he opened his efficiency. Other matters adopted, akin to Songs (walker there isn’t a path)o Something Personal, Mediterranean, It could be unbelievable, Party or Paraules of Love, with which he ended his recital.

After singing a number of songs, Serrat expressed his condolences to the households of the victims of the storm in Valencia and recited the verses of Valencian singer Raimon: “In my town when it rains little it is drought, if it rains too much it is catastrophe. Who will bring the rain to school? Who will teach the rain to rain? “Those who have the power to solve the problems are not competent to do so, today we have to listen to the cry of the people and we have to accompany them in their pain,” he added. The viewers stood as much as say goodbye to the Catalan singer-songwriter in a protracted applause.

Among the viewers had been complete households, younger {couples}, veterans or teams of buddies who mentioned they did not assume twice once they heard the decision for the charity live performance. Beyond solidarity, the poster weighed. Juliana, an Argentine resident in Barcelona, ​​went with two buddies to see Estopa however they had been additionally “very excited” to see Serrat. Rodrigo, who attended together with his spouse and daughter, mentioned that the live performance, regardless of the tickets, “came out cheap because it is about collaborating with the victims of the dana.”

After Serrat got here the flip of Judit Neddermann, Andrea Motis and Lucia Fumero, who sang collectively for the primary time on stage. They opened their recital with the theme I come from a village. It was adopted by songs like Readings by Judit Neddermann, Of love o demise by Lucia Fumero, How a lot do you could have, how a lot are you value, a brand new music impressed by a cumbia and a Bulgarian music and To the nation of l’olivera from Obrint Pas. “We are very honored to do this concert from Barcelona, ​​it is a privilege to be on this stage, we have had a very united response,” mentioned the singers.

Estopa: “We have taught the world a lesson”

The live performance was closed by the duo Estopa, essentially the most anticipated of the night time by the youngest spectators. “This is going to Valencia” they said as quickly as they arrived on stage. The brothers David and José Manuel Muñoz opened with the music Your heat, with all the Sant Jordi standing and chanting together with his arms raised “dreaming that you haven’t left yet, dreaming that you still touch me.” The vitality of the general public continued to be excessive when the duo sang Cacho by Cacho, which ended amid screams from the general public.

“Our brothers from Valencia have had a terrible time, thank you all for being at this concert, we have taught the world a lesson,” mentioned the duo from the stage. Other matters adopted akin to Vacationwhich David Muñoz sang with a flag of the Valencian Community in his hand or Tragicomedy. “We want to dedicate this song to everyone who feels alone,” they mentioned earlier than singing. Sola. I do not bear in mind anymore, The slit in your skirt, The one in the course of the youngsters, I’m out of breath, Paseo o Brake pads. “Thank you very much to all the people who have collaborated with row 0, many of them are not even here,” they added earlier than taking part in the final songs.

The Barcelona live performance joins dozens of cultural initiatives which have been created to attempt to ship assist to these affected. Before the Barcelona Amb Valenciathe nineteenth version of LOS40 Music Awards devoted itself to these affected by enabling row 0 of a solidarity nature. Other initiatives akin to Som València, Cantar para Ayudar or Vamos València have additionally allotted assets to these affected by the tragedy that induced 222 deaths and million-dollar losses a month in the past. The cash raised by Barcelona Amb Valencia It will probably be delivered on to the Red Cross.