Madrid (EFE) to his christening at the Wizink center in Madrid, where the canary has stated that where he wants to be, in addition to his house overlooking the sea, is on stage.
Few successful careers can be remembered as brilliantly as that of Pedro Domínguez Quevedo, born in Madrid in 2001 but raised in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria since he was 5 years old, the island that he carries as its flag and vindicates every second of his artistic life, today accustomed to the first positions of the national and international tops on digital platforms.
The story of his rise is well known: a great peak of virality in 2021 for his verse in the remix of ‘Cayó la noche’, which reached number 1 on Spotify’s Top 50 Spain and began to drag the public towards his previous songs. ; the immediate publication of successive songs that carved out an important fan phenomenon; and the international success in 2022 of ‘Quédate’, the 52nd session with the Argentine producer Bizarrap.
First studio album
That’s where ‘Donde quiero estar’ came from, his first studio album, a compendium of 16 songs where love, sex and doubts about stardom flood fundamentally Latin rhythms, with a great presence of reggaeton but also betting on more electronic sounds, following the latest creative trail of countries like Puerto Rico.
This Friday, Quevedo has broken the reductionist corset of ‘Quédate’ and has been discovered as an essential artist for music in Spanish, with a large list of top-level guests and a performance made by and for the enjoyment of the respectable.
Dressed in a brown jacket with the initials LPGCYN on the back (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, You Know), as if carrying the weight of representing his people, the canary has gone up on stage -a square located in the middle of the track- and He has excelled without backup singers, accompanied in the distance by the prolific producer from Cádiz Kiddo Manteca, in command of the controls.
The sober set design and the timid play of lights have only made his staging larger throughout the two hours in which he has wandered around the stage, sometimes with a clueless face, as if evading his responsibility in the construction of such a bustle.
Quevedo’s is a concert to twerk, jump and shout something to those who accompanies you, even knowing that they will not understand it even at the cost of their eardrum, or to eat your partner’s mouth, or to grab your friend by the neck and dance with him until you bump into the ten people around you.
surrounded by friends
Determined from the beginning, he has played hit after hit, such as ‘Ahora qué’, ‘Respuesta cero’ or ‘Piel de Cordero’, accompanied on this last song by his friend and singer La Pantera, as well as by Juseph in ‘Chamaquita’ , two of the artists who have seen him grow and with whom he shares the original song for ‘Cayó la noche’ along with producer BDP Music.
And he has raised other countrymen like Cruz Cafuné, with whom he has performed one of the songs that will be part of the new work from Tenerife, the long-awaited ‘I move with God’, which will be released this month of May, although without a confirmed date. .
JCReyes have also performed on stage to sing ‘Muñeca’; Lola Índigo, with whom she has played ‘El tonto’, and Maikel Delacalle and her ‘Mi nena remix’, which has ended in a thunderous a cappella by the audience, while with Linton at the piano she has lived an intimate moment, perhaps the only one of the night, when they both stayed, dressed in white and alone, interpreting ‘I’m missing something’.
Quevedo has given a unique memory to Saiko, a promising artist from Granada who in 2023 is heading from strength to strength towards the top, by inviting him on stage to sing, solo and in front of 17,000 people, his ‘hit’ ‘Supernova’, which is currently occupies number 1 of the Top 50 Spain.
‘Stay’, closing
And he has left one of the most special songs of his career for last, which puts a face to the sweet moment that music is going through in the Canary Islands: each and every one of the artists of ‘Cayó la noche remix’ -Bejo, La Pantera, Juseph, Cruz Cafuné, Abhir Hathi, El Ima, BDP Music and Quevedo himself- together to colonize the peninsula to the rhythm of reggaeton.
Although the closing, how could it be otherwise, has been with ‘Quédate’ and all the invited artists jumping and pushing the public, in Quevedo’s last word before the Madrid public, who asked him, following the lyrics, to stay there a while longer.
After tonight, what is clear is that Quevedo knows where he wants to be.
By Marcel Guinot Vellón