With an energetic concert in which he merged endless successes between the symphonic and the electricPuerto Rican megastar Ricky Martin symbolically embraced his loyal Argentinian audience in the first of his three shows at the Movistar Arena in Buenos Aires.
Ten thousand people sold out the date which was added almost last minute for what it was his expected return to Argentine soil after two years without visiting the country and after the pandemic.
Ten thousand people sold out the date which was added almost last minute for what it was the expected return of Ricky Martin to Argentina after two years without visiting the country and after the pandemic.
The Puerto Rican singer has just finished his visit to Bogotá arrived in Ezeiza by private planewhile his fans anxiously awaited him near the Four Seasons, the famous hotel of the Retiro.
About the first evening
Decades pass and the intact romance between Ricky Martin and his local supporters continues to look like something out of a movie. It is worth saying that it has always been women who have always blindly admired it: it is a female audience of about forty years old.
Although something remarkable happened last night at the recital: many mothers have found in their daughters the ideal companions to unleash their euphoria and even shouting compliments to his idol without any itches.
Straightened hair, high heels, lots of lipstick and a variety of perfumes were part of the general landscape of the stadium, both in its corridors and inside, when Nahuel Pennisi, the blind Argentine singer and guitarist, was still finishing a short set as the opening act invited by Ricky.
Minutes later, impatience took hold of the fans, who chanted their longtime idol’s name incessantly, while the majority, cellphones in hand and held aloft, eagerly prepared to film the star’s appearance at the call-up . .
With the back well covered
It was only after half past nine in the evening. Suddenly the lights went out and the stage lights came on. Everything was painted blue.
Amidst the surrounding smoke, the singer’s stable band was enlisted on either side of the stage: drums, guitars, bass, a male backing vocalist, and a keyboard were on one side. On the other side the percussions, another of the keyboard players and the three brass players, who were great protagonists among the usual musicians of the convening artist.
Though the big surprise was the appearance of the symphony orchestra in the back center, with fifty-two Argentinian musicians and the direction of Ezekiel Silbersteinoutstanding musical eminence of the Teatro Colón.
Getting comfortable and composing a sound ensemble between electric and old string instruments was the preamble to what would happen during most of the recital. The image of the star had already disappeared from the two LEDs on the sides of the stage and her real and athletic silhouette was already real.
Suddenly Ricky was center stage, gripping the microphone in one hand and the leg that held it in the other.
What happened at the beginning of the show was a constant throughout the hour and a half of the concert. The female clamor was so strong that it sometimes generated the unpredictable: it surpassed the sound of the music and even the voice of Ricky Martin himself.
In the beginning it was dancing
The vocalist born in Puerto Rico fifty years ago suddenly bursts onto the stage with a marked attitude: She decided to dance non-stop and generate a seductive bond with his crazy supporters during the twenty songs he chose to compose his set list.
Ricky was dressed in strict black: trousers and a long-sleeved shirt with buttons down one side. His sneakers were white and had thick rubber soles. With a broad grin, he never turned serious, not even the few times he stopped to speak to his audience.
His thing was to dance, to spin on its axis, to move his arms, to intertwine them, to zigzag his hips again and again.. Choreography was a constant in every song. so it was with stick, You will come back Y thanks for thinking.
Gestures were his way of complicity with his followers, until he took the floor: “Good night, Buenos Aires. How come you guys can be so wonderful!” she exclaimed.
Then he took a breath in the midst of all that din and continued, staring at his audience and with a marked smile on his face: “We’ve been through a lot, Buenos Aires. Thanks to the musicians here, the orchestra. We came to have fun, to sing and take off our clothes. It’s just that we always have so much fun here! Here is the best of me. Enjoy, Buenos Aires!”
Right away the rhythm took center stage with the song The bombfrom his album Return, from 1998. A salsa cadence interspersed with the commitment of the Philharmonic has generated an inexplicable rarity. “What happens here that they don’t dance?” The vocalist made people excited about him.
It was just before he sang sour tastefrom his latest titled dish playwhich was performed only by his band and did not feature the large string orchestra.
The value of the Symphony
By virtue of another novelty, the singer-songwriter has made a wish: “It’s the first time I’ve sung this song, I hope you like it,” he said. It was approx With your name: unusually the only moment of the evening in which his audience was willing to listen attentively and not intervene.
That topic in focus a great role of the symphony, because it strongly marked the melodywhile the rhythm remained in the hands of the owner of the drums and cymbals, in addition to the timpani.
Then, for an instant, Ricky Martin disappeared from the scene and the symphony remained the main protagonist, with its director illuminated by a clear light, and only the keyboard of the vocalist’s band.
that way, Night fire, one of Ricky’s great anthems, sounded greatIt sounded like a movie soundtrack. Probably one of the most successful sections in this idea of fusion between the electric and the symphonic that the enthusiastic ex Menudo has devised.
Randomly the stretch of a medley which included Flight, the love of my life and the slow I miss youof the year 2001, coincided with a change in the singer’s outfit: he had changed his dark shirt for a white Indian tank top which included a kind of scarf as a detail, moreover it was fastened both at the cuffs and at the neck.
The backdrop, on the other hand, never stopped his images: small particles in continuous movement, from one side to the other, matched the actions of the vocalist on the tables of the Movistar Arena. For example, when he sang Sharks, Martin’s perfect choreography coincided with the rhythm instilled by someone else’s orchestra, with the images and, in turn, his musical ensemble.
Clearly, this performer who has played in the major leagues for decades, practice with seriousness and dedication even the slightest movement of his body to the sound of his songs before embarking on a world tour. The performances contained in it are a constant: no improvisation.
Return It was another of the themes in which the symphony fitted like a glove to grant a different harmony to its lyrical notes, whose natural daughter was a ballad. For the occasion, the symphony was accompanied only by an acoustic guitar.
Undoubtedly the best arrangements and sound mixes of the proposal that the Puerto Rican, who is a Spanish citizen, has kept awake and desired for a long time, and which he finally carries forward on his tour that will see him for two more evenings on Argentine soil.
A few minutes later, after hanging the microphone stand on his back and doing a few laps on the boards, Ricky changed his shirt again: the new one he was wearing was black with silver reflections. Those same luminosities mingled with those of the bronze instruments, whose sound qualities stood out in the song. Lollaanother from his hit album Return.
“Shall we continue? Buenos Aires, shall we continue?” the singer-songwriter asked over and over again in one of the few times he spoke to his esteemed local audience.
Instantly his speech took effect. Her female fans have flared up again. “I love you, Ricky, I love you!” it was the cry of longing that she rang the loudest across the field for a long time. But Ricky, with a constant smile, didn’t stop walking. He continued to give everything on the tables.
past Live the crazy life (sung entirely in English): behind it walked to the side of the stage to dance; then intoned cup of life (The cup of lifesong from the 1998 World Cup in France), until the farewell.
First, he thanked Silberstein, conductor of the orchestra, and the members of the symphony. Then it was his turn, highlighting his bandleader, bald guitarist David Cabrera.
“Thanks to my family. To my director, thank you very much for your affection, for your advice”, he expressed visibly grateful. Finally, moved, he addressed his Argentinean audience, with a heartfelt message: “Thanks to you, I love you with all my heart. I think I’ll stay here to live. Thanks for everything, I love you, I love you,” he insisted and left for a while to come back for encores.
At that point everything had already been said. The current Ricky Martin is focused, with a formidable professionalism behind him. You no longer need to take off your shirt to show your bare torso. Or talk for an extended period of time to your audience. Today the thing about him is maturity. Today his is based on constancy.
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Source: Clarin
