This Sunday, Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona) praised Estopa’s 25 years of experience. The city’s most international residents were cheered at a tribute event where a statue dedicated to the duo was unveiled.
The sculpture is on a bench in Plaza Catalunya, where the Muñoz brothers played their first songs when they were teenagers, reports the Catalan News Agency (ACN).
This Sunday’s celebration, under the theme “Cornellà sings to Estopa”, was marked by a choral performance by members of the city’s entities who covered the duo’s songs.
Even though Estopa was not originally scheduled to perform, José and David couldn’t resist and shared four songs with more than 4,000 neighbors, friends and family members who filled the square and nearby streets.
The history of Estopa is linked to an inseparable blood brotherhood like that of David and José Manuel Muñoz, but also to an inalienable link with Cornellà. It’s been like this for 25 years. Or more, if we take into account the time they invested in the composition of the songs that they presented in 1998 to the multinational BMG and that there were so many of them, and such talent, that they had to divide them between the first two albums: Estopa (1999) and Destrangis (2001).
