Rozalene He took the stage for the first time this Thursday after the floods of October 29 which devastated Letur, his commune. He did so in the crowded José Luis Perales Auditorium in Cuenca, where he encouraged people to “celebrate life” and asked the public, “now more than ever”, to go visit Letur and Mira, the other most affected municipality. by DANA in Castile-La Mancha.
The concert of the artist from La Mancha was organized by the University of Castile-La Mancha (UCLM), with the collaboration of Globalcaja and the City Hall, which opened its doors a zero line in which more than 15,000 euros have already been raised. These solidarity tickets can be purchased until this Saturday, November 9, symbolically on the website globalentradas.com and the money will go to the places where the tragedy has hit the hardest.
“Now we must draw strength and look to the future with a lot of light,” Rozalén said while trying to hold back tears, adding that “the force of nature is immense, but the strength of people is also immense.” “A few days after DANA, the artist went to her city “even if it was to cry together” and with “terrible helplessness”.
On the stages of the Cuenca Auditorium, she was accompanied by her inseparable interpreter Bea Romero, Javi Collado on percussion and Samuel Vidal on guitar. Rozalén interspersed traditional songs like “La Paloma”, “La Llorona” and “Fandango de Liétor” with songs like “So”, where she talks about her childhood in Letur and which earned her one of the nominations for the next Latin Grammys. “If this song was already special, it now has an infinite dimension,” explained the artist.
“80 Times” and “The Violet Door” were also played, while in the latter part of the concert the UCLM Symphony Orchestradirected by Miriam Castellanos, making arrangements on some of Rozalén’s songs such as “Yo no renuncio” and “Everything continues the same”, dedicated to her father. And after an hour and a half of spectacle and emotion in equal measure, “Fandanguillo Manchego” put the finishing touches.
