Nora Quintanilla
New York, Feb. 19 The Chilean singer Mon Laferte and the Mexican women’s orchestra Mujeres del Viento Florido moved this Sunday at the Lincoln Center in New York to a very dedicated audience that sang, threw compliments, danced and raised Latin American flags.
The recently renovated David Geffen Hall, which is the headquarters of the New York Philharmonic, was completely filled for a concert different from those of the usual programming, and which was especially important for the musical collective from Oaxaca as it was their first performance. out of Mexico.
The almost twenty regional musicians began the recital by sounding their instruments and moving their colored skirts while they interpreted traditional Mexican rhythms that evoked pasodobles, and which later accompanied the gush of Laferte’s voice in a review of his discography.
The singer, who began with hits like “La trenza” or “El cristal”, told how she had met her collaborators: listening to them live while having a few chelas in Mexico and later going to propose that they record together, which at first they thought would it was “a joke,” he said with a laugh.
The result of that meeting is “Se va la vida”, presented two years ago, which was one of the stars of the night along with “Canción sin miedo” by the singer-songwriter Vivir Quintana, a heartbreaking story about femicides that commemorated several victims by name and claimed “We want each other alive!”.
After those solemn lyrics that drew an ovation, Laferte’s followers responded to his call to make a “little train”, as the chorus of “La Democracy” says, and they left their seats en masse to approach the front row, cell phone in hand. , and let his idol take a crowd bath.
Virtually no one was left seated during the last half hour of the performance, a rare sight in this New York temple of classical music, as was the arrival of a girl from the audience on stage with whom the singer danced, or her distribution of roses to those who were closest.
The artist’s connection with her audience was palpable and on several occasions she recalled moments spent with her fans in New York, a large part of them Mexican, judging by their cheers when she wrapped herself in a flag that they sent her, and Chileans, who also carried his ensign.
After an hour and a half of songs, most of them from his album “Seis” (2021), Laferte made one last exclamation of the “Maestra!” to make way for the female orchestra performing “Tu falta de querer”, with which the Grammy nominee said goodbye to a concert that she described as “a dream”. EFE
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