Serrat says goodbye to his public in Madrid with a packed Wizink Center

Joan Manuel Serrat said goodbye to Madrid this Wednesday in the first of the three concerts that he will give in the capital on his latest tour. She did it before a complicit audience that gave the ‘Nano’ a standing ovation.

“How far did this day seem when I started the tour in April but, as Tarradellas said, we are here!” Serrat told the thousands of followers that packed the Wizink Center from Madrid: “I say goodbye to you, to a city that has given me so much love and I have felt so much complicity”.

inaugurated the tour ‘The vice of singing. Serrat 1965-2022’ on April 27 at the Beacon Theater in New York and the will end on December 23 at the Palau de Sant Jordi in Barcelona, ​​his land, where he will say goodbye.

These months he has offered concerts, in addition to the US, in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica and numerous Spanish cities. The people of Madrid received the singer standing up and with a standing ovation, who the show began with ‘Dale que dale’, by the poet Miguel Hernández. “Forget nostalgia and melancholy, put them aside and get on the motorcycle, we are about to start,” Serrat asked at the beginning of the concert.

But it was difficult not to be nostalgic with the song that followed: ‘My childhood’, which has followed ‘El carousel del furo’, in which he talks about his grandfather, shot by the Francoists without his body having been recovered to datethe singer has told.

‘Lucia’, ‘Señora’ or ‘Something personal’ have been other of the songs she has sung the artist, constantly applauded and cheered by the public, to whom he has told that He has enjoyed a “full and fun” careerin which he has experienced things that would not have happened to him if he had been an adjunct professor in a provincial city. Anecdotes and intimacies have dotted the Serrat concert, who also recalled Miguel Hernández, “a simple and sensitive man who loved freedom and life above all else and both things were taken from him”, a poet whose verses he has also sung from ‘Nanas de la cebolla’ to those that his good friend Alberto Cortez put to music, he has remembered. And that melody has been followed by ‘Para la libertad’, which has put the public back on their feet.

In a more festive tone, he has sung ‘I don’t do anything else but think about you’, a song that he has interrupted to ask himself “what is a song? Alexa, what is a song?” and to remember with gratitude all the songbooks and songs that she has stuck to in all these years “in the lining of her soul”. ‘Your name tastes like grass to me’ and ‘Today could be a great day’ have been other of the most applauded songs, by Serrat, who has made a wake-up call on climate change and the need to change behavior to save the “sick planet”.

Two hours after the concert began, he performed his quintessential melody ‘Mediterranean’ and, later, he sang the emotional ‘Esas pequeños cosas’ and moved the audience with Antonio Machado and ‘Caminante no hay camino’. “I was convinced that this concert would be wonderful,” said Serrat, who has assured that I would be singing on stage “until I drop my goiter”. After last night’s appointment, only 6 concerts remain for Serrat: two more in Madrid (December 13 and 14), the one on the 10th in Andorra la Vella and the last three on December 20, 22 and 23 in Barcelona.