Joan Manuel Serrat, a “spoiled” member of the Latin public through his more than half a century on stage, kicks off today in New York his tour “The Vice of Singing” with which he will bid farewell to his faithful followers, eager to see him this night and not let him go.
The Catalan will perform “to a full house” at the Beacon Theater in the Big Apple, the city where he performed for the first time in 1976 and to which he returns three years after his last concert to perform songs that his accomplice audience has already made his own.
Serrat. Illustration: jmserrat.com
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However, it will be difficult to please everyone with their favorites: “Penélope”, “Cantares”, “Those little things”, “Mediterranean”, “To live”, “Señora” or “Let’s make a deal”, or Mario’s poems set to music. Benedetti, Antonio Machado or Miguel Hernández.
Serrat, who in December of last year surprised by announcing his retirement, will begin this tour in a city where he is received with great affection by a mostly Latin American public, who applaud him furiously and during the evening he does not stop express your affection with phrases like “I love you” and in which the “bravos” resonate in the room.
Not surprisingly, in recent years New York has become an increasingly Latin city, where Spanish is heard on every corner, and among this Hispanic population, old Spanish glories such as Serrat, Joaquín Sabina, José Luis Perales or Raphael have legions of fans here.
The Catalan singer-songwriter has recognized that the health crisis due to the covid pandemic, which forced him to spend a period without singing, convinced him that it was time to retire, which fell like a bucket of cold water among the thousands of followers of the interpreter of “Penélope”, a success that was his letter of introduction in the American continent.
“The vice of singing 1965-2022” will take the Noi del Poble Sec to say goodbye to his friends in Latin America and the Caribbean, and then return to Spain with emotions running high and leaving an audience that already misses an artist that he took his job as a singer very seriously.
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