2023-07-08 19:19:47
They are going to sing in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Turkish and Korean and they even dared, to address the public, with Catalan. Pink Martini, that since its beginnings almost thirty years ago plays a break from the stage the stereotype of the monolingual American and closed in its English-speaking world, it opened on Friday night the sixty-first edition of the Porta Ferrada festival of Sant Feliu de Guíxols with a charming multi-faceted evening, one hundred percent true to his style.
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With exquisite punctuality, Thomas Lauderdale, the pianist and leader of the Portland orchestra, jumped on stage to thank the spectators who were in the old football field of Vilartagues in a very correct Catalan, before to start with Wasted time, Lilly i My love.
The theme that popularized the band, sympatheticit didn’t take long to appear in the repertoire. Presented by vocalist china forbes as “one of the first songs we wrote, many years ago”, it took even less time to wake up the audience, who were immediately encouraged to sing along I don’t want to work, I don’t want lunch…
The friendly cocktail of musical accents and cultures continued with Forbes and one of the other eleven martinis, Timothy Mishimoto, performing Anna (the black buzzard) i Where are you, Yolandato give way later to the singer Edna Vázquezwhich put the public in the pocket with a classic among the classics, Kiss Me a lot, i I am alone.
The Mexican was one of the stars of the night, along with Forbes, also showing off with Destiny i What happened happened and with his speeches half in Spanish half in English. “Thank you for your patience, I don’t even know why I’m speaking English here!” he joked to the audience of Guíxols Arena
The idiomatic mixture was felt again when the Pink Martini invoked Raffaella Carra intoning Congratulations, canta da en parallel by the audience in its version in Spanish, you have to come southor with the Korean-Spanish mix Saeng gak/Why are you leaving?again with China Forbes at the helm.
the turkish It was spring i One night to Naples, they ended up making the asses of some attendees jump out of their chairs, who got up to dance in the audience before the American line-up said goodbye by presenting one by one the twelve musicians on stagehighlighting not only the name and the instrument they play, but also their place of origin.
Pink Martini’s Tower of Babel returned for encores: Think of mea duet between Forbes and Vázquez i Brazilian watercolorthe song with which the Americans have dismissed all their concerts for 29 years.
with the audience doing the conga following the Brazilian rhythms imposed by a band he did in Sant Feliu his only performance in the entire State closed a night that, between versions and own themes, com Hey Eugenewhich sounded in the final stretch, they turned into a delicious one soirée multilingual in the Empordà.
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