Seville (Spain) (EFE).- It seemed impossible that the ambient temperature of the hottest Seville of the year could rise even more tonight, and that is what Alejandro Fernández has achieved, who has arrived at Icónica Sevilla Fest dressed in a suit black charro and surrounded by twenty musicians, who have supported him as only great orchestras support great voices.
So hot (in Seville it is said in feminine) it was tonight, that the concert was delayed half an hour, with an appointment of the one in Mexico City at 10:30 p.m., and at that time on the dot his powerful voice has filled the Plaza de España in Seville, presenting the “foal” -a name that comes from the name of his father’s ranch, ‘Los potrillos’, in honor of his three children- with ‘Tantita pena’, the song by Fernando Riba and Kiko Campos, which has announced an iconic recital in half of a monument of almost a century of life.
“It’s wonderful to be in Spain again after so many problems and everything that had to be done to finally set foot on Spanish soil,” he told his audience, almost 5,000 people, to greet him, without forgetting the setting of the recital and not being able to avoid quoting “this magical and spectacular place”.
Let’s go back to the heat (the heat), which was the recurring topic of conversation today anywhere in a city where, in the shade, it has reached 43 degrees: “This heat is going to get worse, because we are going to turn it on , because this is a Mexican night ”, the artist has released. It was 10:45 p.m., and in Seville it was 38 degrees Celsius.
Seville, tonight, had a special heat, with the permission of Los del Río.
What was clear is that Alejandro Fernández did not want to set foot in Spain and do one more concert, and he expressed it in bold in the fifteenth song of the night, ‘Me dedicé a perderte’, the immortal work by Leonel Garcia Núñez De Cáceres which he has performed together with “the best voice in Spain”, as he defined when introducing her to the Cádiz-born singer Niña Pastori.
Together with her, he has made a version to be framed, with an audience that, at that time, had already forgotten about the Seville sweat and had focused on enjoying the thirty songs prepared for the occasion, while his image was reflected even in four large screens so that no one missed anything.
With no time to waste, chaining song after song, ‘Canta, corazón’, ‘Nube viajera’ or ‘Dónde vas sola’ have been emerging from her voice into the Sevillian firmament, before choosing as her song almost to leave a tribute to her father, the great Vicente Fernández, who left for ranchera heaven in December 2021, leaving, among other awards, two Grammys, eight Latin Grammys, fourteen Lo Nuestro and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The foal, after his 52nd lap around the sun, is in full artistic maturity, he dominates the stage like few others, he has an orchestra and choirs in total complicity with his microphone, and it looks as if his ‘Amor y patria’ tour has arrived to stay among the outstanding dates of the summer in the Spanish musical universe.
The show, in the end, reflects that love that he feels and has “for music, his family and, above all, his country”, and he has arrived, perhaps, when he can best defend his repertoire, a mixture of rancheras and romantic songs, With more than three decades of experience and after captivating millions of fans around the world with his privileged and characteristic voice and his interpretation full of feeling.
Tonight’s was a tricolor event, like the flag of his country, seen by dozens at the Seville festival, and a return of conquests. In 1521, Hernán Cortés conquered what was then Mexico-Tenochtitlan, and today, 502 years later, Alejandro Fernández has conquered a city located just ten kilometers from the town where Cortés’ life expired, Castilleja de la Cuesta. And it was hot, and a lot, but it was a night of mental fans, eternal rancheras and a foal that became iconic.