“For Rocio. By Rigoberta. By Zahara. By Look. For baby. For all of us. Because no one can take away the dignity of our nakedness. The dignity of our fragility. Of our strength. Because we are too many. And they will not be able to pass over the life that we want to inherit. Where I’m not afraid to say what I think. Because today is the day of the revolution”.
A few words from Eva Amaral that resounded on Saturday night through the loudspeakers of the Sonorama Ribera festival, in Aranda de Duero, like a song of struggle, of empowerment, of overcoming. Immediately afterwards, and with a megaphone in hand, the singer took off her red sequined bra that she wore throughout the concert and sang bare-chested in front of more than 35,000 people.
The song Revolución was playing and on stage a full of strength Amaral was seen, and that spirit was transferred to the thousands of spectators who applauded, shouted and cheered for the duo that celebrated 25 years of music. “I feel that our time has come; this is our revolution.” And it was.
She has not been the first singer to make this type of claim, nor will she be the last. In fact, Rocío Saiz, the first woman she mentioned during her speech, did the same at a concert she was offering in Murcia last June and a policeman stopped the show and forced her to cover her breasts. An act that went viral at the moment and caused a great uproar.
Saiz thanked Amaral’s gesture on social networks and wanted to send a clear message to the other artists. “The whole country turned on again because we took off our shirts. Well, like this, over and over again, until you leave us alone. Until we have the same rights, the same spaces, the same salaries and the same freedoms. Spot”.
Another woman who has spoken out has been the Vice President of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz. “Eva Amaral has been a benchmark for women in our country for more than twenty years. She has proven it once again at Sonorama. Brava ”, she wrote on her Twitter account. So has the Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, who has published an image of Amaral and a fragment of her speech: “For the dignity of our fragility, of our strength. We are too many.”
Pablo Echenique has turned it into a dedication: “On behalf of Mrs. Eva Amaral, for all the blue or green reactionaries and their radio and television channels. “We are too many and they will not be able to pass,” said the leader of United We Can. Precisely, Podemos has published in his account the phrase “Amaral and her revolution represents us.”
At the end of the concert, Eva Amaral and Juan Aguirre appeared in a fleeting press conference, still with their hearts racing. “Tonight has been one of the most beautiful moments in the band’s history,” he said. A new hymn to freedom.
