“Since humans are not certain of our expiration date, I prefer to decide for myself what my expiration date is,” said the 77-year-old singer.
The spanish singer Joan Manuel Serrat, which last night, Wednesday, December 1, announced that he will say goodbye to the stage with an international tour that will last throughout the year 2022, clarified this Thursday that he is not leaving for health reasons, but because he wants to be the one who decides his “date of expiration”.
“I am not leaving because I am unwell, discouraged or bored,” he said in statements to the network. SER Catalunya-, I’m leaving because I don’t want someone else to decide for me, not a disease, not a pandemic ”.
Joan Manuel Serrat will retire from the stage with a tour in 2022
“As humans are not certain of our expiration date, I prefer to decide for myself what my expiration date is,” added the singer, 77 years old.
“I don’t want someone else to decide for me; the decisions are either made by oneself or the inevitable takes them,” added the singer-songwriter from Barcelona in this sense.
The author of Mediterranean, considered one of the best songs of all time, pointed out that has no intention of “cornering the guitars” so whatHe will continue playing, “even if it is in the family sphere”, so he does not rule out recording future albums.
He also pointed out that the final farewell to the stage will be given in a year, when the farewell tour in the Catalan capital ends, and that it will be a farewell “with ceremony.”
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The ‘Noi del Poble Sec’ acknowledged that the tour “will be nostalgic”, but will try to control emotions because “an artist must know how to do it on stage.”
In addition, “to feel the losses is to be closer to them and them,” he said, and, although he acknowledges that he will miss his audience, he believes that the time has come to say goodbye.
“Time takes its toll and is inflexible,” he said. “Sometimes we waste it badly, without realizing that it is, along with health, the richest thing we have.”
Serrat will start the tour El vicio de cantar 1965-2022 on April 27, 2022 in New York and will tour Latin America and Spain until December 23, the date on which he will say his final goodbye in his native Barcelona. (I)
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