Every year, the lyrics from the repertoires of choirs, comparsas, chirigotas and quartets They make the audience of the Gran Teatro Falla de Cádiz get excited, laugh and, thanks to any feeling it raises, enjoy one of the most important cultural events in the city: the Official Competition of Carnival Groups (COAC). Although they often touch on timeless themes, they always current events enter the sung humor of the Cádiz Carnival: This year, the royal family (and, especially, Froilán) did not escape starring in the repertoire of the chirigota ‘Ciego de Thrones’, nor did Luis Rubiales star in ‘There is no summer without kisses’, another chirigota that He performed in the seventh session of the preliminary phase of the contest.

Nor have they been spared members of the group Andy and Lucas to appear in not one but several of the lyrics of the groups that have been appearing in the Gran Falla, as a result of their recent separation, apparently temporary, due to a health problem of one of its members, Lucas. Now, the other, Andy, stars even more in this year’s Cádiz Carnival, to which he has returned with his troupe after four years without participating in the COAC. Even referring to the separation of his own group.

Andrés Morales Troncoso, better known as Andy, took the stage on Tuesday, January 16, to take his troupe, ‘Los amulets’, to the top. He is aware of the difficulties he faces — “The responsibility of what the Carnival in Cádiz entails is added, taking into account that it has not gone well for me and that people think beforehand that my troupe does not compete“, he advanced in an interview with ‘Diario de Cádiz’—, but also that they have taken an important leap in terms of the quality of the group. “The group is good and sings quite well (…). Furthermore, we have good lyrics, we will release some powerful ones for which we have even obtained legal advice,” he added in the same interview.

With a powerful “Walker, there is no path, the path is made by walking”, ‘The amulets’ arrived on stage in the eighth session of the preliminary phase, provoking applause from the Gran Falla audience almost at the beginning of his performance. And they did not take long to show the direction in which their lyrics were going, dedicating a space to the “bureaucratic problems” that prevented the artists in the 2023 COAC from receiving 108,000 euros for the static advertising of the stage, from the Cajasol foundation, money that Apparently they haven’t received it yet. “Get rid of the advertising of an unsupportive entity that has played dirty, that has deceived all those who tasted here and that showed their faces while they took advantage filling his pocket at the expense of copleros“. Even his props on stage it covered the advertising of the same entity.

‘Los amulets’ have also had lyrics to criticize those who, pardon the redundancy, They don’t criticize those who deserve itcarrying aseptic lyrics in their songs, having the opportunity to raise their voice at the Carnival.

Although they are The official COAC juries decide which groups advance to the next phase, the unofficials give their points daily, serving as a ‘thermometer’ of what is happening in the Great Falla. The alternative judges of ‘La Voz de Cádiz’ and ‘El Diario de Cádiz’ have placed this troupe in 11th position (of the 24 that have already performed), while the jury’s score little official of ‘Bahía de Cádiz’ takes them to 9th place.