The singer Amaia Romero is in one of the best moments of her career. To the success achieved by the series La Mesías, in which she has one of the roles as part of the Christian music group Stella Maris, and with which she will perform at the Primavera Sound 2024 festival in Barcelona, ??is added the recent trip that the artist Pamplona native has traveled to Japan to visit the city that inspired one of her songs.
Yamaguchi is the name of one of the songs in the OT 2017 winner’s repertoire. It refers to the park in her native Pamplona, ??and also to a Japanese population that, after the song was published, inaugurated a plaque in her honor. The Spanish and Japanese cities have been twinned since 1980, which is why a park in Pamplona inaugurated in 1997 bears the name Yamaguchi.
Amaia’s song also has a Japanese version released at the beginning of this year, 2023. These milestones have earned her the opportunity to visit the city that gives her her name to offer a very special concert there. And not only that, but she has also made headlines on Japanese television for having included, in her trip, a visit to the Yamaguchi authorities.
“I’m hallucinating,” the artist acknowledged in the piece broadcast by NHK, Japan’s public radio and television corporation. There she took the opportunity to perform her acoustic composition to, finally, encourage herself with one of the best-known expressions of the Japanese language: “Arigato”, that is, “thank you.”
As it could not be otherwise, the television moment has not gone unnoticed by social media users, who congratulated Amaia on her milestone in recent days. “Imagine giving your first kisses in your city park, writing a song and having a plaque put on you in Japan. Amaia, the legend that you are,” wrote an X (Twitter) user.
“Iconic”, “queen of Spain” or “surreal” are other evaluations that the followers of the singer from Pamplona have shared online. In addition, they joked about some of the lyrics that appear in their songs and how their visit to the Asian country can open them up to new audiences: “Wanting to see videos of Japanese people singing ‘Do you want to be my friend? Eat the fig’. Amaia, the only person who has achieved that,” said another user.
