Seville (EFE).- 30 years ago, a single with blue tones and the title of ‘La Soledad’ arrived at music stations throughout the country, with the name of an unknown woman named Laura Pausini, who had just won the San Remo Festival, which, why not say it, is still equally unknown in Spain.
The singer from Faenza relied on the complicity and talent of Valsiglio Angelo and Pietro Cremonesi to win the festival in the Debutante category, and given the echo that that 45-rpm vinyl had around the world, it makes sense that, as happened tonight in Seville, it is the song chosen to open the recitals designed to celebrate her 30 laps of the sun, microphone in hand.
In perfect Spanish, which some compatriots who record albums in Spanish as if they were from Castilla itself but then need a translator to ask for a glass of water would like, Pausini has performed at Icónica Sevilla Fest, the festival in the Plaza de España in the southern capital, to demonstrate that his artistic fullness and empathy with his audience are total, with a voice that never misses a note, and an ability to communicate with his people reserved only for the chosen ones from the staves.
“The past is a reason, the deepest part of our being, the root that defines, the one that remains, the one that leaves its mark forever”, said the voice-over that gave way to the iconic transalpine, which appeared at half past ten at night with a pristine red that reached its microphone, and with an anthurium, red, of course, of which it is not known if it was a nod to Andalusia, because it is the flower that the rociera carts choose mostly as an ornament in his way to the White Dove.
The audience’s response to her Solitude, with the lyrics mixed with the original Italian from ‘La solitudine’, settled her in the tranquility of knowing that the night was going to go well, and when worries disappear, they talk about the weather: “Does Pausini come to Seville and is it very hot? No, I’m going to give her a little breeze and she’s going to feel very good ”, and that’s how she was.
The Andalusian night gave him an unforgettable 29-degree breeze, like the song that, after ‘Amores extraños’, already made it abundantly clear that he was more than comfortable, but much more.
Let’s go back to Pausini’s connection with the public. She sings ‘Yo sí’, and sings “When you want to disappear / You give up before you lose / If nobody sees you / I do”, after women who have suffered abuse appeared on the screen, and she blurted out at the end of the song that, since 2003, when the cases began to be counted, “there have been 1,212 femicides in Spain”, and she encouraged women to denounce, to feel safe for it.
What a memory at this point for Carmen, the woman murdered today in Humilladero (Málaga), who raises that damn statistic by one digit.
And it is good to highlight how the Italian prepared not only that part of the concert, but all the moments in which she had to talk to her people.
Preparing macro-concerts like the ones he has done in Venice and now at Icónica Sevilla Fest -where he repeats the appointment tomorrow- in two different languages will be anything, but surely not easy.
Feminism, environmentalism, human relations… Not a detail is missing from her repertoire, she leaves no subject to be discussed, and it can be seen in ‘Hermana Tierra’, with a spectacular presentation; in ‘Listen attentively’, because “I already erased you from me, I already moved away from you, you know that”, or “Las cosas que vivas”, an ode to friendship in which he says things like “in the things you live in, I will also live”.
And so a night passed in which Laura Pausini fulfilled her dream of singing for the first time in Seville, until ‘Se fue’, with that song that, like ‘La Soledad’, was part of her first studio album in 1994, when that almost 19-year-old teenager told the world that she had come to music to stay, and for 10,950 days she is still there, perennial and determined to continue like this as long as her audience wants.
Having seen what we have seen today in Seville, and using an Andalusian simile like few others, Laura is going to last singing more than a gazpacho in the fridge.