Santo Domingo (EFE).- The Puerto Rican artist Rauw Alejandro kicked off his world tour “Saturno World Tour 2023” today in Santo Domingo, a show that combines technological effects, music and dance on stage.
Rauw Alejandro, one of the main exponents of urban music, brought together more than 20,000 people in the Quisqueya State of the Dominican capital, which on this occasion left baseball aside and hosted the first leg of a tour that will lead this musician and dancer, until next November, on stages in America and Europe.
With a staging that simulates the arrival of a special ship on Earth, Rauw Alejandro and the dance group that accompanies him stepped on stage to the shouts of his followers when “Punto 40” began to play, one of the songs with more success of his latest work, “Saturno”.
An audience that, during the two and a half hours that the concert lasted, remained standing chanting and dancing to the rhythm of Rauw Alejandro’s songs because, as he himself said at the beginning of the concert, “music can change the mood It is the best medicine that human beings have created”.
Guest artists
But Rauleeto, as he is also known, did not sing alone on stage: he was joined by half a dozen artists and friends, including the American Chris Palace, with whom he sang the song “Gatas”, and also fellow Dominicans like Flo 28, La Perversa or Nino Freestyle.
The emerging Ángel Dior had a prominent place, with whom the Puerto Rican artist has participated in a peculiar dembow, “Tamo en nota”, and who together sought to turn the stage into the already famous 42nd street in Santo Domingo, converted into the center of urban musicians.
And with an essential role in the show the Jabbawockeez, a popular American hip hop dance group tasked with liberating Earth from the alien invasion alongside Rauw Alejandro.
The special effects were the main stars of the night -a “very special” night for being “the first show of my tour”, the artist stated- simulating space, the control panels of a spaceship or video game images.
First stadium of his tour
“THANK YOU RD, my first stadium has been with you, a lot of nerves, but at the same time a lot of happiness in my heart to share all this with you”, wrote Rauw Alejandro just after the concert on his Twitter account, and, in fact , he made the public protagonist of his show, inviting them to sing with him, raising a couple to “perrear” on stage, mingling with his followers and recording the atmosphere in Quisqueya himself with a cell phone.
Rauw Alejandro’s fans were delighted that he had chosen the Dominican Republic to open his tour, a concert for which prices ranged from 22,000 to 2,400 Dominican pesos, from 400 to 43 dollars.
Now, after passing through the Dominican Republic, the tour will go to the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Central America and then jump to Europe (Spain, France, Italy, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Romania, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Germany) and finally return to Latin America.
In all these places, Rauw Alejandro will present “Saturno”, his third album after Afrodisiaco and the successful Vice Versa that included the song “Todo de ti” and is made up of eighteen songs, including “Lejos del cielo”, “Saturno” , “Gatas”, “Lokera” or “Tell me who”.
