A simple beat accompanied by a break that transports the pop of the nineties opens dani’s recital. The Galician a few months ago she presented her second record work, postscript (El Volcán, 2023), ten songs that come from letters that she confesses to having written for someone whose identity she does not want to reveal. The singer and songwriter Daniela Díaz Costas (Vigo, 1997), better known as dani, published her first work in 2020 and, since then, she has not stopped surprising with her stage and musical proposal.
After a rough start due to technical problems, the first verse of Códigos gains momentum: “I sing at night so I don’t think about you…” and the enthusiastic audience accompanies the artist at the top of their lungs as if they could jointly dedicate the song to a same recipient. Dani appears on the scene sensually and shamelessly without giving any room for shame. Once the first song is finished, she apologizes for the confusion generated and asks the sound technicians for changes. She wants to offer a good show and that means being comfortable with what happens on the stage located in the middle of the Vida Festival forest.
The party has started and nothing can stop it. The small track has become a refuge where the protagonist dances and celebrates like a carefree teenager. “With this album I got rid of many thoughts, most of the songs are the product of love disappointments, they are letters that I have been writing for different boys,” she confessed this week. Although the start has been strange and it has been difficult to start, Dani has overcome the consequences of the initial technical problems with ease and sympathy. The setting is her house.
Tears and existential Bonfire have sounded next. The band offers a more disco version of the album and the public accompanies it by moving the skeleton. Some chant the songs by heart and others, it is evident that they have just discovered them and they like it. The postscript lyrics are sad and lead to uncomfortable situations, but tonight the message has been completely the opposite: a celebration and a hymn to the freedom of being comfortable with oneself.
The preparation work for the live is evident, there was no room for confusion between song and song and some of the melodies had their own choreography: simple movements that the skirt and top, made of silky fabrics, exaggerated. At times, the proposal seems designed so that attendees can record small fragments with their phones and share them on the networks.
“Live shows are one of the things I enjoy the most. It’s very nice when people like what they see,” she confessed excitedly days before the concert. Despite the incidents and the reduced space where she has performed, Daniela Díaz has not let the stage proposal decline, inviting everyone to be part of it. The forest has been submerged in a party with poor sound but on the right track. “Our best concerts have always been in Catalonia, people like the show and it’s very welcoming. Playing here always gives me security.”
The stage commitment demonstrates a concern to take a leap forward although, today, Dani has not been able to demonstrate it and has not shone in all its splendor due to technical problems at the beginning of the recital. “I can finally say that I am very proud of the proposal. I really want to go live and be able to introduce new songs,” she confessed. And she has done so, showing an unpublished theme, I misbehave. slow, drum
There has been time to recover the most outstanding songs of twenty (El Volcán, 2020), the first album that left no one indifferent: “The album represents me a lot and it was nice to have this reception. I consider myself very lucky for all the support that I have received from the media”. The remix of Ceras rosas, the first advance postscript, has closed the concert. The assistants, excited by the proposal, have not stopped moving to the rhythm of a pop that recovers eighties influences. There have not been big speeches, but there have been those necessary to warm up the atmosphere with a public that has not abandoned interest in the young promise.
