Even though millions of people around the world were moved by seeing Lali Esposito when he sang the Argentine national anthem minutes before the Qatar 2022 World Cup final was played against France, no one imagined the journey he would have had to face in the hours preceding the event.
In a juicy interview he gave to the program the anthill in Spain, the singer gave details of unusual situations she experienced, from crying in a dressing room to not knowing if they were going to play the version she needed to find tones.
“Yes, they called me 20 hours earlier as a trifle… as if it were something they do every day. It was quite an ordeal… I was partying in Qatar, out for a walk, enjoying the World Cup like another tourist. He had a voice that couldn’t even speak, because he had thrown a party the day before. Pepo calls me and says ‘listen to me, they want you to sing the anthem at the world final'”, began Lali.
“I told him I couldn’t and started crying. I was with a good human group, some friends of mine who told me that I could not let such an opportunity slip away and for this reason I accepted. I had a lot of nerves in the preview. At 6 in the afternoon I ran to a shopping center to find something to wear.because I’ve been wearing a tracksuit all my life,” she described of the clothes she brought back to Qatar.
“Also, I’m half dwarf and all the clothes are too big for me. I’ve tried on all the brands and cried in all the dressing rooms. I seriously thought about singing naked with the Argentine flagbecause he had no clothes. I finally pulled this look together at 10pm,” she commented, pointing to the screen where her wardrobe was in full performance.
He lost his version of the anthem
“The next day at 11 in the morning I was in the dress rehearsal where there were people from FIFA shouting. People don’t know that the key in which the Argentinean anthem is sung for a woman is very low. So at 11 pm, from Qatar, I asked my producer in Argentina if he could make me a two-tone version on topso that I could sing without problems,” he revealed.
“I sent it to someone I didn’t know who had to do with the organization, but The next day, when I go to test the sound and enter the field, they put the wrong one on me. I very politely approached a gentleman to tell him this was not what I had corrected. That man told me he was the only one he had, he left and I never saw him again,” he explained to the drivers’ surprise.
“I went into the dressing room full of nerves, begging God to put the track of my version, in front of millions of people, and not the other one. When I left I surrendered to fatethinking about my dad, my friends with painted faces from Argentina watching TV and it all boiled down to something as simple as ‘I don’t know how I’m going to sing it but I sing it from my heart, which is what matters’, he mused. .
“They finally put me the version of the anthem that was and I was able to sing it in my pitch. It went well”, Lali celebrated, to everyone’s applause. Then she sang the hit at the request of the drivers Lads, without musicalizing “The idea is that the lyrics are not understood,” he joked.
After they asked him if he had spoken to Lionel Messi in the pre-game. But the singer quickly clarified that “No, they were focused. What do I tell them? ‘Lucky Messi’, I’m like a bore.”
However, the Argentine singer acknowledged that “I looked at them when they took the field and I gave them (a sign of strength) but they didn’t care, because they were thinking about something more important.I still gave them good energy“, Lali closed with humor, in front of an ovation from everyone in the studio.
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Source: Clarin
