‘I don’t go if I don’t have new songs’ – El Financiero

the Spanish singer Joachim Sabinaaway from the stage for a fall he suffered at a performance in Madrid in 2020, he announced this Saturday in San Sebastián, Spain, a new album produced by Leiva and a tour in America and his native country starting in February.

“I don’t go on tour if I don’t have new songs”, Said Sabina at the press conference for the presentation of Hearing it a lotthe documentary on his figure shot by Fernando León de Aranoa and which will premiere today at the San Sebastián Festival.

After the success of I deny everything (2017), his first album with Leiva as producer, the 73-year-old musician confirmed that “there will be another” and that I hope it will be published at Christmas.

As for the tour, it is only advanced that it will start at the end of February in Latin America, which will include Argentina and then come to Spain and back to America. “We are signing concerts“, he indicated.

Joaquín Sabina’s documentary

The documentary, which does not yet have a theatrical release date, includes moments shared between the director and the singer over thirteen years, from the last concert in Madrid with Serrat, to meetings with friends in his Madrid apartment, a tour in Mexico or a tribute received in Úbeda, his hometown.

Leon d’Aranoawinner of the last Goya with the good bosshe said that it all started by chance and that it was Sabina who invited him on a road trip with him and with the writer Benjamín Prado, to whom he could bring the camera.

It was the first of many moments recorded without a plan or timetable, until three or four years ago he decided to pick it up and look for the structure of the documentary.

“I have succeeded in the microgroove and now I want to succeed in the celluloid”, said a smiling Sabina, who linked one brilliant phrase after another, with a voice, yes, very deteriorated.

“I once had a better voice and the record company told me that this way we wouldn’t sell a record … it’s a marketing strategy, I make people feel happy because they think they sing better than me”He continued joking.

That sense of humor is very present in the film, which voluntarily forgoes any hint of solemnity. “The artist must take what he does seriously, out of respect for the public, but not for himself, solemnity is the end of every artistic adventure and we have escaped from it like the plague”, underlined the singer.

Leon d’Aranoafor his part, he explained that his purpose with Sabina has never been to make a testimonial with people who give their opinions, but to collect “live moments”, even complicated ones in which “you really understand what a person”.

He was referring, for example, to the day when the singer, a great lover of bullfighting, went to say hello José Tomás in the bullfight of Aguascalientes, Mexico, in which he received a serious gore and, with uncertainty about his health, took the stage and performed in front of eight thousand people.

Sabina confessed to being a “fatal” spectator of himself. “I am more modest than my caricature says; my wife, who is not at all inclined to compliment, basically to me, she told me as soon as she saw him that Fernando had taken my soul ”.

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