“The first time I came to a Latin American country was Ecuador”: these were the revelations Melendi made during his visit to Guayaquil

20 years ago, in a bar in Spain, Ramon Melendi Espina he thought about his life with a beer in hand, in the midst of a professional frustration he thought about music. If he had the chance to talk to that young man, he would tell him two things: “don’t stop drinking” and “It was the best beer he had in his life.”

Everything you need to know about Melendi’s concerts in Quito, Guayaquil and Cuenca this week

“I didn’t think I could really become a singer, I had never picked up an instrument. My sweet, velvety voice didn’t help much either, until I heard Ismael Serrano’s song and realized I loved to write and I might have a talent for it,” he said at a press conference this morning. melendiwho visits Ecuador to offer four concerts in the country, as part of his tour ‘Likes and scars’.

Ecuador holds a special place in Melendi’s heart and career, being the first country in Latin America to open its doors to her, followed by Venezuela. “The first time I came to a Latin American country was Ecuador and I didn’t know what the reaction would be like,” He says of his visit that it ended up being a warm space because it was like being at home with an audience that “welcomed him from the start.” “And it wasn’t that easy, because it wasn’t that globalized, it was not so easy for Spanish music to get here or that Cuban or Ecuadorian music came to Spain,” recalls the artist from Oviedo, Spain.

He describes this country as a romantic place, where songs like The promise, A garden of dwarves, Check the portamor They make him enter into a complicity and emotion with the audience.

His connection to this country was demonstrated this morning at the press conference, where he was ready to answer even the strangest questions, the simplest, the deepest, and those of a journalist who declared himself a fan.

Without sadness – well, with a little – he revealed one of his OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder). “I’ve had a pretty complicated time in my life regarding this issue (the Toc) that if you don’t do a certain thing it looks like something is going to happen to you…” he said and between laughing and blushing by he launched it.

“When I watch TV, I can’t turn the volume up past my age, or the age at which it would be okay for me to die. Sometimes it’s very messed up, because I can only post less than 44 or 99″, the artist confessed.

He also said that within his repertoire there were songs that he didn’t want to sing I act again, The coroner’s report, No news from the Netherlands, written and composed when he was 19 and 20 years old. “It didn’t fit very well with the messages of those first songs, and it took me a long time to come to terms with it. and now I am completely reconciled with my songs,” he said honestly.

During the meeting with the journalists, which lasted about an hour, he showed his simplicity, sense of humor and availability, even taking pictures with them or giving someone a special video.

His concerts

After six years, Melendi is going to sing again in the country. Their first concert is tomorrow, Thursday, May 11, at the Voltaire Paladines Polo Coliseum. Tickets: Melendi Box, $120; Box, $100; grandstand, $60; Generic (left, right, and center), $40. All seats are numbered.

The singer then offers two shows in Quito. The first will be Friday May 12, for which tickets are sold out. The second presentation in the capital will take place on Saturday May 13 at the General Ruminahui Coliseum. Tickets: Melendi Box, $120; Top box, $100; Armchairs, $80; Preferred, $60; General (blocks C, D, E, F, G), $40. Numbered seats.

Eventually it will come to that Cuenca on Sunday, May 14where he quoted his fans at the Jefferson Pérez Coliseum. Tickets: Melendi box, $120 (numbered); Preferred, $60; and General, $40.

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