Ismael Serrano returns to Argentina to celebrate his 25-year career

Spanish singer-songwriter Ismael Serrano will start a tour in Argentina on June 24, in the province of Mendoza, to commemorate his 25 years of musical career, in which he will present his studio album we’ll be.

In his Argentine tour, after the premiere in Mendoza – where he will sing for two consecutive evenings -, the Madrid artist will be on tour in Rosario, Neuquén, Bahía Blanca, Mar del Plata, Córdoba, Tucumán and will culminate with a double appointment on August 5 and 6 at the Buenos Aires Opera House.

In those weeks, according to his website, Serrano will combine Argentine recitals with several presentations in Chile and Uruguay.

The new show and the album

The show, which has already been staged in Spain, mixes theater and songs, both taken from his latest work, entitled we’ll beLike his biggest hits.

Part of the scene will mimic an open microphone television interview in which he will address the passage of time, success, failure and love.

It is almost normal for him, the songs usually pay homage to the past, but there are melodies and verses that have a vocation for the future. “I think this album shares that aspect,” Serrano said of his latest work.

On the album, Serrano has the collaboration of voices such as Clara Alvarado, Litus, Pablo Alborán, EDE and Jimena Ruiz Echazú.

“I couldn’t talk about the pandemic, the empty streets or the white lights of the hospitals. I wanted to talk about the frozen life that awaits us, about that old, faulty and rusty normality. Because almost everything looks more beautiful than it is when you lose, ”she added.

Among his singles stand out why we went Y Fahrenheit 451a melodic cumbia with literary touches that honors Ray Bradbury.

the new songs

“I wrote these songs with the certainty that this storm will leave a lesson that will make us better. Even if it will take time. Despite the headlines and the noise of the news,” Serrano said.

we’ll be it was his first album of original songs in 7 years. “I’m not very prolific as a composer. I’m not someone who writes songs all the time. I have friends who live with music permanently. They carry a guitar and at the very least threaten to sing you a song,” he said.

“When I compose – he explained – I know what I want to write, what I want to talk about. And I had some outstanding problems. I wanted to make a song that talked about the care task, which falls on women, another on the feminist struggle”.

“And when I decide – he concluded – that I want to write about something, I do it. This is how the songs, the ideas emerge. I want to deconstruct the myth of the tormented singer-songwriter, who comes to order life, the eternal loser … And I write I’m not. OR see you wake up, where I do an exercise on this. About the singer-songwriter who tells you that I told you “.

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