Without Roberto Carlos, there isn’t a Christmas in Brazil | EUROtoday

If in Spain the Gordo lottery marks the start of Christmas, within the United States, the countdown begins with Thanksgiving dinner; in Colombia, with the day of Las Velitas. And in Brazil… with the tv particular of the singer Roberto Carlos, who for 50 years has reached the final nook of the territory with the assistance of the Globo channel. The king of melodic track is greater than an idol in his homeland, he has change into a nationwide establishment. The King, with Pelé’s permission. Surrounded by 34,000 followers, Roberto Carlos Braga (83 years outdated, Cachoeiro de Itapemirim) recorded the present a number of weeks in the past in a stadium in São Paulo. The most romantic of romantics reviewed his repertoire accompanied on stage by lifelong pals corresponding to Gilberto Gil or the duo countryside Chitaozinho and Xororó. In the air there was the query of whether or not it will likely be the artist’s final Christmas particular, even though he doesn’t present even a touch of retirement. He has a dedicated agenda for the approaching months.

Whether you want his music or not, each Brazilian treasures recollections related to Roberto Carlos. Be it for his songs, for his hobbies or for the legend that accompanies him. That is the magic of the Christmas particular, which Globo will broadcast on December 20. No Brazilian has bought extra albums than him, an estimated 120 million all through a profession of greater than six many years during which he has performed essentially the most numerous genres. Perhaps his aversion to political affairs has contributed to this transversal success. Being capable of sing about love, who needs controversy.

He present Christmas, titled RC50 on the event of this system’s half-century, it’s an ode to nostalgia. Recorded on a scorching Wednesday night time in November at 26 levels in entrance of a devoted viewers that had paid admission. The revered artist took the stage together with his straight hair, lengthy bangs, white go well with and a lightweight blue shirt open to the center of his chest that allowed a gold medal to be seen. Despite his fragile look, he maintains a vigorous voice.

Among these current, a large number of girls in lengthy clothes, many with their daughters or pals, dressed to the nines, with numerous gold, suspenders and heels. The viewers accompanied each bit in refrain whereas it was being executed. selfies and so they revealed snippets on Instagram. “I come to be grateful that you make me cry and smile,” Roberto Carlos advised his viewers on the finish of the present in a message that may attain hundreds of thousands of properties on the eve of Christmas. The ultimate contact, as at all times, is that magical second for his most loyal followers during which Roberto Carlos throws roses from the stage on an viewers that just about killed to get one. The fortunate ones show them on the exit with the ecstasy of somebody who wins the Oscar. From the stands, the sudden wave of individuals speeding to the stage to get a reminder flower is spectacular.

The present began two hours earlier with That man is me (That man is me). Everyone current was ready in order that, if one thing went flawed, the efficiency can be interrupted and repeated as if it had been a brand new take. Advantages of recordings. The star of the night time didn’t want all his performances, together with important songs corresponding to Our Lady o Evidencethey had been like silk. Only one among her visitors, a younger actress from Globo, requested not as soon as, however twice, to begin her track once more. The nerves.

The present was a musical journey by half a century of Brazilian music, his personal and that of his artist pals. He starred within the first of the duets with Gilberto Gil, who’s a yr youthful, and has developed a profession parallel to his. Together they sang Let’s run away (Huyamos) of the Bahian. Amigo He devoted it to his soul mate, Erasmo Carlos, a companion for the reason that sixties with Young Guardwhich paved the way in which for Brazilian rock, from the occasions when Roberto Carlos was the Brazilian Elvis. He remembered the last decade of the seventies with the samba Zeca Pagodinho. Without a doubt, essentially the most intense second of the live performance was Roberto Carlos’s trio with Chitaozinho and Xororó, the best exponents of the countryside basic, the nation Brazilian born within the inside, who in recent times has conquered the coast, the stations and Spotify in Brazil.

The public savored the present as if every ballad rejuvenated them ten years. Businesswoman Estela, 72, enjoys Roberto Carlos reside for the fifth time. This time, in a aspect seat on the backside of the stands, together with his sister and a buddy. They are right here to have a good time their buddy’s birthday and life collectively. “What does Roberto Carlos mean to me? Oh…. The passions… the passions of youth, the passions of husbands and boyfriends….” He proclaims: “He is our idol.”

Everything concerning the artist is superlative. His gross sales, his awards (only one Grammy, 5 Latin Grammys, one Billboard Latin Music…), his superstitions… Blue is his shade, the one which accompanies him on stage and in his public appearances. Flee from brown just like the plague. Those who know each element of his airtight life say that he takes his personal meals, even when he’s invited to a marriage; that he misplaced a leg when he was run over on the age of six, a matter that’s talked about in whispers as a result of he by no means mentions it.

Before saying goodbye to 2024, the veteran singer has 4 live shows deliberate in as many Brazilian cities. A few months of relaxation and in March he embarks for the present Beyond the horizon Roberto Carlos5 days of a themed cruise alongside the Brazilian coast with a live performance by the idol “to dance and have fun to the sounds of songs that consecrate love in all its forms,” says the promoting. There are nonetheless locations within the most cost-effective cabins, $830 per particular person full board to be paid in ten installments. After a short respite, a handful of live shows within the south of Brazil to hyperlink up in May with a tour with 5 exhibits in Mexico earlier than returning to São Paulo.

The singer’s dedication to Globo is so ironclad that, since that first particular in 1974, there has solely been two Christmases, and attributable to drive majeure, there was no particular. The first, in 1999, when Roberto Carlos was widowed by María Rita, his third spouse. The different was in 2020, as a result of pandemic that stopped the world. Their followers The most devoted bear in mind that he’s very spiritual, that he sang for Pope John Paul II and one Christmas the Globo particular was recorded within the Holy Land, in Jerusalem.

For lots of the nice Brazilian artists, solely sickness or dying removes them from the stage. Many contemporaries of Roberto Carlos are nonetheless energetic. Caetano Veloso, 82 years outdated, is on tour together with his sister María Bethania, 78. Gilberto Gil has simply starred in coming back from a tour Through Asia on the head of his clan, Chico Buarque is seen much less, however he was on tour in 2023.

Robert Carlos has a hell of a schedule for the approaching months, though he stopped publishing an album a yr a very long time in the past. They at all times left at first of December, simply earlier than Christmas and the southern summer time holidays.