Olga’s Charly Day at the Colosseum: how was the constant parade of great singers and unforgettable songs?

Since its inception in June last year, the streaming channel Olga he organized several special broadcasts of the program Migue Granados, I dreamed that I was flying.

This Wednesday the 23rd, the day of the 73rd birthday of Charlie Garciastaged their biggest success to date, with around twenty great singers of different musical styles, performing unforgettable hits.

They debuted with a Cerati Day in the studio, then they held a Round daythere was a Spinetta Day at the Colón theater, a Cris Morena Day in the Gran Rex and also a partial meeting of Bandana and Mambrú also in the studio.

On this occasion they got together an incessant parade of extras and great songs, always with the breadth of criteria that characterizes the new generation of audiences and musicians, uniting people of different genres. As Charly himself predicted, “Without prejudice are those who will come.”

Only with that freedom of action was he able to join García’s great colleagues (Nito Mestre, León Gieco, Pedro Aznar, Fabiana Cantilo) with rock people (Santi Motorizado, Ale Kurz, Lula Bertoldi), the tango (Raúl Lavie), folklore (the Sun, Los Nocheros), tropical music (La Delio Valdez, Angela Leiva) and music for children (Topa). They were too Juan Carlos Baglietto, Nahuel Pennisi, Favio Posca, Andy Chango AND Manuel Wirtzamong others.

The result was a new success: during its live broadcast it was the most watched in the world. At the beginning there were around 120 thousand people watching on YouTube, then they rose to 137 thousand and never went down. Between YouTube and Twitch it reached a peak of 148 thousand viewers.

In the more than 17 hours of broadcast, since the preview began at 6 in the morning, Olga has surpassed 1.3 million viewsthe hashtag #OLGACharlyDay It reached the first trend on X in Argentina and during Charly Day, OLGA reached 85% of the public consumption flow.

It was also a success on the solidarity level: 4 tons of food were collectedbecause the only requirement to pick up the free tickets the day before was to bring a donation.

An excellent artistic level

It is worth pointing out that in many tributes, tributes and celebrations of great artists you run a double risk: making versions so faithful that they contribute nothing or facing interpretations so different that the key essence of the piece is lost. It’s almost a lose-lose and the occasions in which they hit the target are few.

This time, however, the success was very high, and the audience appreciated it by standing up, applauding the artists and singing or clapping their hands.

At the beginning, after a series of notes taken by Julio Leiva, Evelyn Botto, Elial Moldavsky and Pedro Rosemblat in the theater room, with some armchairs and decorations similar to Charly García’s house (graffiti on the wall, broken telephones and keyboards, vinyls and posters), Migue Granados welcomed from the stage, a few minutes after eight in the evening.

The charismatic pilot told an anecdote from 1999, when he was 12 years old and heard a Charly García song for the first time. He recalled more details of his relationship with his idol’s music and concluded: “Doing this is a dream of ours.”

Immediately an instrumental section of Moving from the bed to the living room, demonstrating the power and exquisite dispositions of the group armed by Lito Vitalewith talents such as Javier Malosetti, Hernán Jacinto, Sergio Verdinelli and Rama Molina, as well as two choirs, four wind instruments and three woodwinds.

Already settled at the table of his radio show, Migue and Luca Friedman They began the dynamic by introducing the singers, sometimes interviewing them briefly and, of course, publicizing the sponsors who made such a production possible.

The songs

Soledad Pastorutti made her debut to break the ice I pray for yousung with great strength and conviction. Manuel Wirzt came in immediately and scored Promises on the bidet with Sonia Alvarez on harp. Raúl Lavié followed with an original interpretation of Friday 3:00 and Laura Esquivel with Song from Alice in Wonderlandwho managed to get the audience back on their feet for the first time in the evening.

Throughout the night there were many versions of songs from Charly’s solo career and also many songs from Serú Girán. Strangely no one chose songs from Sui Generis or The Bird Making Machine.

The recital continued with Juan Carlos Baglietto and a much celebrated event I’m not a strangerbringing everyone to their feet. Nobody sat down during the following songs, both for the joy of seeing the most beloved artists live, and also for the strength of the compositions: Ale Kurz with Close to the revolutionLos Nocheros with Collective unconscious and Fabi Cantilo with Connection.

Just over an hour had already passed when the actor Favio Posca approached and showed off They keep hitting uswhile huge balloons flooded the room. Lula Bertoldi did it I don’t need your love and Topa surprised him Chipi chipi.

An emotional moment was when Migue introduced his sister Mery and his father Pablo, to whom he gave a huge Yamaha CP-70 piano, the same one Charly had been using since the 1970s. The well-known actor and comedian premiered it by singing a section of You were green too and then he did it Pepper with his daughter. Migue’s arrival was expected, but the nerves of the last few days have left him with an unusable voice, as he confessed.

Heading towards the final stretch, Angela Leiva arrived (Adela on the carouselwith a great solo by Rama), Nahuel Pennisi (extraordinary in The dinosaurs), La Delio Valdez (Looking for a symbol of peace), Lucas Fridman himself (Bank that flaw), Andy Chango (Tu vice) and the unexpected duo Santi Motorizado and León Gieco (I don’t want to go that crazy).

Immediately, during the conversation with the drivers, León sang to them The mornings to Charly, with harmonica and Mexican spirit.

They closed Nito Mestre (videotape eyes) and Pedro Aznar (your love), both applauded with enormous affection and admiration by the audience that packed the Colosseum theatre. Pedro then doubled León’s bet and sang Congratulationsin a kidnapping of Italianness.

There was an encore with most of the singers Seminar, almost exactly three hours after the celebration began which achieved its goal and in the process ended up becoming a true milestone.