Against all odds, JoaquÃn Sabina has called his last tour, always ready to laugh at a destination that has given him more than one scare, which has not prevented him from returning to the road. After training in Latin America, the man from Jaén has returned to the peninsula to visit Las Palmas and his native Úbeda, then landing in Malaga where this Friday he continued a tour that smacks of revenge, of vindication after the accident suffered in February 2020, weeks before of confinement, during the tour “No hay dos sin tres” that he carried out together with Joan Manel Serrat.
That fall at the Wizink Center reduced Sabina’s appearances to a minimum: she performed at the Goya gala with Leiva and accompanied Benditos Malditos in a couple of songs from one of their concerts. Two small tastings that prepared him to announce a new tour and a new song. Very sorry, I advise sailors for those who had “paid off” him ahead of time.
Eight minutes after 9:30 p.m. rang through the public address system Against all odds, an agreed signal for Sabina to make her appearance at the MartÃn Carpena in Málaga ready to let herself be loved by an audience wanting to see the skinny man from Úbeda, whom she applauded wildly From the first moment. The respectable wanted to chant the memories of him, loves and heartbreaks of him, in the songs that sounded during the two and a quarter hours that the concert lasted. And he did not mind that his idol’s voice scratched a little more than usual, nor that he remained seated for most of the performance, in which Sabina relied more than usual on his band, where Pancho Varona was notably absent. , faithful squire for 40 years and now replaced by Borja Montenegro.
Wearing a striped jacket and her classic bowler hat -white for the occasion- Sabina began the concert by remembering When I was younger to continue Feeling it a lot and singing that I deny everything, a trio of songs with which she seemed to be accountable for her 74 years and the well-deserved fame as a scoundrel who, after trying everything, regrets almost nothing. He continued telling truths with White Lies, a song with more than 40 years behind him that quickened the pulse of the pavilion to continue with Marble Tears, in which he sings “Survivor, yes! Damn it! / I will never tire of celebrating it”, and if he had to dance with the ugliest, at least “I lived to sing it.”
“I feel like one more boquerón†Sabina told the Malaga audience, showing that the years have not taken away his gallant soul. As in the previous concerts of the tour, he found a reason to exalt the city in which he performs. On this occasion, she wanted to greet her new friends present at the venue, some events “at ages when it is not so normal to do them”, like the singer Vanesa MartÃn. She also greeted the father of Mara Barros, José Barros, and Laura Pamplona, ​​actress and wife of Pedro Barceló, the group’s drummer.
When the cold hits, he gave way to Por el boulevard de los sueños rotos, which the Jaén sang standing up as a duet with Mara Barros, leaving choruses and clapping for the audience, which more than complied. After recovering her seat, it rained on wet, where Sabina took the opportunity to introduce the band. And he left the command to her while he took a break, “I’ll be right back” he said, letting Los Benditos Malditos interpret I want to be an Almodóvar girl, in which the voice of Mara Barros could finally be heard, and The most beautiful song of the world, performed by Antonio GarcÃa de Diego with the accompaniment of hundreds of voices from the public.
After the break, a new shirt (with polka dots) and the classics So young and so old, On the edge of the fireplace and A song for Magdalena, which he performed accompanied only by the piano by Antonio de Diego, with a previous poetic tour of the entire body of the woman, “that is my homeland,” he said. Sabina smiled frankly as she ticked off the entry for 19 days and 500 nights, enjoying seeing how little she needed to get the applause from the respectable, who delightedly helped the artist when he got an annoying and fleeting cough. The enchantment continued with Peces de ciudad, after which Sabina announced a tribute to Málaga in the form of a couplet, And yet I love you by Concha Piquer, in which Mara Barro displayed her vocal capacity. She linked the theme with Y sin embargo, already with Sabina on vocals, ready to get the entire pavilion on their feet to a rock rhythm with the memory of the “strawberry-mouthed” Princess before saying goodbye for the first time.
The lights came on again and it was Jaime Asúa who started with The Case of the Platinum Blonde, to make way for the man from Jaén, in a tailcoat and top hat, who with his last arreón interpreted Contigo and Chavela’s Wedding Night, which united the emotionality of And they gave us ten shaking the nostalgia of the public before saying goodbye with the Pills not to dream. A reminder that “If what you want is to live a hundred years / don’t live like I live”, although he is already 74 and who knows when he will stop.
Sabina’s new tour will last throughout 2023, with a double performance in September at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona. And to show that he is not afraid of his past, he will perform four times at the Wizink Center, twice in May and another two in December as the closing of a tour that overlaps with the one he interrupted with Serrat, his partner in recent years, and who has already announced his withdrawal from the stage.