Laura Pausini has been singing about love for 30 years and she does not get tired, nor does she stop, conjured to spread love in the broadest sense of the word, for herself, for her partner, for nature and the entire world. She does it with her weapons, an energetic and clear voice, an incorruptible smile and an overflowing spontaneity that she displayed last night at the Palau Sant Jordi surrounded by the platforms, lasers and giant screens that adorned the colorful stage in the shape of an arrow that pointed to the more than 10,000 unconditional people whom he greeted with “we are now together” and “benvinguts”. Companions on a long journey with the Italian singer who proudly proclaims herself as “the most Spanish in the entire fucking world” (she did, yesterday she also used the word). At a time when urban music has uninhibited musical vocabulary to the extreme, the singer and songwriter from Faenza, white glove of melodic singing, can say something like that and have it sound innocent instead of obscene.
“Everything that I really am is here tonight on stage, perhaps you will not share all the things that I will teach you, but it is nice that it is like this” announced the artist, who with a new album under her arm –Almas paralleles- and the recent recognition from the Latin Grammys – which is added to the Golden Globe for and the Oscar nomination for Io si – he has undertaken a tour of Europe and America in which he makes an oceanic journey through his career filled with messages of tolerance, respect for others and solidarity. With these parameters, more than 30 songs were played last night, from the rock guitars of Emergency of Love to the disco sound of Surrender or the more personal songs like Nuestro amor cada día. And of course classics like Se gone, Strange loves or Solitude, ballads that made her famous since she won at the San Remo festival in 1993 at the age of 18, and that closed the evening with Pausini singing a cappella Gente, completely alone on stage.
Accompanied by seven musicians and four choristers, Pausini opened a concert on time at 9 p.m. that lasted 3 hours with the powerful The First Step on the Moon, clad in a sequined suit and surrounded by a group of dancers dressed as comic-book astronauts. . Without a Breath gave way to Lasting, A Good Start and Every Time, songs that the public knew and chanted belonging to his new album, his 14th studio album and the first in which he abandons personal stories to be inspired by real cases of people who surrounds her. Joy and drama with which the melodic artist wants to do her bit to build a better world, as she did when performing Yo si, where she gives voice to the victims of abuse, and then shows the gesture that women should make to warn stealthily when harassed.
“Deu n’hi how many people we are, it’s the first time that there are so many of us in Barcelona,” said Pausini, unrepentantly loquacious, in the first of his speeches with which he introduced the concert before sitting down at the piano to perform Así Celeste, dedicated to her daughter Paola, 10 years old, and the women who have wanted to be mothers, while the screen showed private images of mother and daughter, a resource from the personal videos that she used on several occasions. “I only know the song in Italian, if you cover the lyrics I’ll kill you,” said the artist while performing the song dedicated to her daughter, directed at one of the cameramen who was recording the concert for future publication (surprise news of the night ) because it covered the prompter.
It was one of several attacks of spontaneity by Pausini, who did not hesitate to sing I will always love you to one of the security agents who was confronting a spectator for having left his chair, bringing a month-old baby onto the stage to sing with him in her arms (while the girl, named Lola, sucked on the microphone indifferent to what was happening), or return the praise that sounded at the top of her lungs from the stands.
He did not forget Between you and a thousand seas, which ended a cappella, with the lights off and the thousands of attendees giving the chorus. “Collons, what a night,” she said, to continue with As if we hadn’t loved each other, guitar in hand. There was also no shortage of Spring in advance, The things you live, Víveme, On the other hand, not as well as a tribute to Rafaella Carrá while Cero was playing and Pausini, wearing a harlequinade suit, made her audience sing and dance. More than a rich repertoire to build a positive story of love and life that delighted an audience contemporary with the star of the night, willing to sing everything that can be sung to serve as accompaniment to an artist who, throughout For three decades, he was by her side in the tenderness of a kiss, the warmth of a hug and the pain of a rejection with that sweet aftertaste left by her incombustible smile.
