Two years later than scheduled Dwell, king of kings of the street, stepped on this Saturday Dream, a stage with a pedigree, as a symbolic validation of an industry that L’Hospitalet has cracked with a hammer. Validation has been earned without asking, like everything he achieves, because he doesn’t look back or even to the side. He is instinct and, at 23 years old, a head full of experiences and a body with a thousand and one calluses. Morad is a failure in the system, the ‘mainstream’ did not expect him there, much less in this gigantic dimension, become an uncontrollable phenomenon. But there it is, today at Sónar, tomorrow who knows. From his first concert, with a handful of friends in the audience and little else, three years ago this month.
The festival, always attentive to the margins, opted for him for its 2020 lineup -an edition that never took place- and, finally, has represented glorious street in the great event of advanced music. The glory is given to him by his public, all those silenced who live on the margins (or not, since he is already a pop artist who spreads through any neighborhood) of which he is only a speaker, being as he is already one of the artists most listened to in Spain.
“Those of the L”
Morad already presents a show that corresponds to his figure, he does not trust everything to his magnetism or his vigor on stage. The visuals specially designed for his direct help. Morad began by greeting “those from the L” (La Florida, his neighborhood), who were few this Saturday because among the festival audience there were not many representatives of his most faithful followers.
Ángel was there, a boy from the neighborhood and surely the youngest spectator of the concert, whom Morad repeatedly addressed. For many, the Florida rapper represents what they only see on TV, the winner out of nowhere. But in this case, out of nowhere. The boy Ángel was invited to listen and sing loudly ‘Soñar’, a hymn to resilience. It includes a verse as simple as it is heartbreaking and hopeful:“We did everything to dream.”
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He quickly spat out (the producer SHB was throwing bases) his lyrics in direct response to the police with ‘Aguantando’ or ‘Normal’, which he also took the opportunity to declare eternal love for his mother. Morad polished off his short and dizzying career remembering that he is, as the song says, “the first to come from Africa” to do one of the famous sessions with the Argentine producer Bizarrap, the most celebrated piece to date (the one that says: “I didn’t have to go into the store ‘/ I doubt that you already understand that world’/ I had to steal all the garments’; now I pay the Treasury every month”). And immediately afterwards he traveled to his first gold record, the caramelized ‘A escondidas’.
Beny Jr, a friend and another immense talent from Florida, went up in the most exciting moment of the afternoon. He encouraged Morad to sing at a vital moment full of doubts: “She has always supported me, she has made me grow.” Together they sang ‘Sigue’ and finished the concert with the energetic ‘Pelele’ with an audience, finally, joining the overflow. Morad and Beny Jr embraced on the stage of an entire Sónar, a place that not so long ago they did not even dream of stepping on. Ah yes, at the end she spat out a “fuck Mossos d’Esquadra”.