Today ends an April in which very few Spaniards have been able to leave their homes. An April that for many has been completely lost and it seems that, as in the song of Joaquin Sabina, they have stolen.
Listen to ‘Who has stolen the month of April’ to fight against the coronavirus on Play SER
A series of artists led by the singer Rebeca Jimenez have made a version of ‘Who has stolen the month of April’ to breathe courage and support in these moments. All the benefits of this will go to Doctors without borders and support the research they are conducting on the Covid-19.
Rebeca Jiménez has been with us at La Ventana to tell us how the idea came about. And it is that everything was done in an online dinner with her sister Lucia and her husband, also a musician Quique Gonzalez. They were the ones who proposed that a version of Sabina’s song be recorded.
Precisely a few weeks ago Pancho varona He told the origin of this song. ‘Who has stolen the month of April’ is a commission for the soundtrack of a film starring Alfredo Landa in 1988. It is a drama that featured actresses such as Maribel Verdú and Ana Obregón and in which Sabina himself made a cameo disguised as Groucho Marx.
Now singers of the stature of Andrés Suárez, Zenet, Travis Birds, Litus and thus up to 20 names join their voices to fight against the coronavirus. Artists to whom Jiménez has managed to agree after participating in an online platform that he has set up through Instagram to broadcast concerts: “They had to be the ones who participated in this version.”
Rebeca Jiménez has told us that she has always liked this subject but that precisely at this moment it seems devastating, especially together with the images of the video clip of “An empty Madrid that chills your heart”.
Writers have also participated in the project Elvira Sastre and Benjamín Prado, who recite these verses accompanied by the music of this version of Sabina’s song:
Who changed the fairs for hospitals
Who stopped the office clock
Who killed the festivals with funerals
Who silenced the glasses of the canteens
Who catches that thief who has let go of our hands
Has kidnapped the summer
Has frozen our hearts
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