2023-11-21 19:54:20
Tuesday, November 21, 2023, 2:49 p.m. | Updated 6:54 p.m.
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Madonna is back on a world tour to commemorate her 40 years in music. The queen of pop has returned to the stage and between 2023 and 2024 she will hold 78 shows around the world performing her greatest hits and drawing on all those musical influences that have nourished her during those four decades of successful career.
After visiting London, Barcelona, Lisbon and Cologne, the singer from Michigan ended her two dates in Paris last Sunday and Monday on a good note. Some of her followers have published videos of those performances online and a detail has not gone unnoticed by those with better ears: Madonna continues her love affair with Basque and uses a Basque religious song as the introduction to one of the greatest songs. her successes.
Madonna and the Basque touch of Like a Prayer
Madonna covers her face like a monk and walks towards the stage while the religious song ‘Birjina Gaztetto bat zegoen’ plays in the background. A song in Basque from Iparralde that dates back to the end of the 19th century. It was compiled by the French composer Charles Bordes and is included in the Eskualdun Eliza Kantuak songbook of 1906, according to Eusko Ikaskuntza.
The song goes: ‘Birjina gaztetto bat zegoen; Kreazale Jaonaren othoitzen; Nouiz et’ainguru bat lehiatuki; Beitzen zelutik jaitchi Mintzatzera haren’, and is based on the message of the archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary. Based on these lyrics, the queen of pop walks towards the stage, until her walk culminates in the beginning of her legendary hit ‘Like a Prayer’, on a stage full of religious crosses and dancers with their faces covered and without shirts. Madonna’s most transgressive song, with a religious Basque touch that further fuels the North American’s controversial myth.
Music video for ‘Like a Prayer’ by Madonna. YouTube
Basque in Madonna’s shows
It is not the first time that Madonna uses Basque or Basque culture to fuel her shows. A little over a decade ago, the Basque trio from Iparralde Kalakan was a leading part of their MDNA Tour in 2012.
The group included fragments of ‘Sagarra Jo’ in the version of ‘Open Your Heart’, but it also happens that the trio also participated in the intro of ‘Girl Gone Will’, with the same song from ‘The Message’. of Gabriel’ that he has now recovered as the start, in a much more choral key, of his song ‘Like a Prayer’. Madonna’s relationship with Basque, therefore, continues to be a fundamental piece of her shows.
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