“What I have decided is to say goodbye in person. I did not like feeling dismissed by a plague [en referencia al covid]. That’s why I considered going to the most natural place to do it, with the public in front of me, full of gratitude and joy,” he explained then.
To do this, he launched one last tour that began on April 27 in New York and with which he later crossed Latin America, from Puerto Rico to Argentina, in addition to making an extensive tour of Spain to culminate with three sessions in Barcelona.
In the last one, he will be accompanied by 15,100 people -among them, the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sanchez-, to close the journey started in 1965, when a lanky and magnetic young man who was going to become an agronomist expert appeared on a Barcelona radio.
It would not take long for the national success to arrive and the jump to Latin America of whom the Latin Grammy distinguished as person of the year in 2014.
“Put away any hint of nostalgia and think that from now on everything is future,” Serrat asked from the Mexico City stage in November, trying to scare away the sadness of the farewell.
Author of hymns such as “Mediterranean” or “Your name tastes like grass”, “Cantares” or “Lucía”, the music of this author who began singing in Catalan and defines himself as a “Latin American from Barcelona” has seen the growth of several generations of Spanish-speakers, to whom his farewell announcement put before the rear-view mirror.
“I only come to say goodbye to the stages and not to say goodbye to the people, nor to the country, nor to the love that has united us”declared Serrat about his time in Buenos Aires, the city with the most recitals on the tour, five.
Source: Ambito
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