The opening day of Cruïlla has been looking for the long-awaited young audience that all festivals pursue for years and with success. He started doing it in 2019 through rap and continues to this day with that diffuse label that encompasses many other things: urban music. Around it was inaugurated this Wednesday, with a threatening but compassionate sky (only four drops fell shortly before the end of the day), andhe eclectic and festive festival par excellence its new editionwhich will last until Saturday the 8th in the Parque del Fòrum de Barcelona.
The celebration of the first steps of the appointment led it to its culmination two suggestive, delicate voices with a brilliant present, that of the Argentinian Nicki Nicole and that of the Galician Sen Senra. Rosario’s, more powerful than sweet on stage, closed the welcome party with a superstar ‘show’, with great production, character and a range of hit songs. She showed part of her new album, ‘Alma’, but did not renounce her perennial songs (be careful, for a 22-year-old artist) such as ‘Wapo traketero’, ‘Mami chula’ or ‘Colocao’.
The closure was reached by the hand of a seducer Sen Senra, who wore it at sunset, falling deeply in love with the Cruïlla audience when he picked up the guitar to sing a magnificent ‘I no longer need you’. The artist from Pontevedra, with an intimate voice (he constantly plays with falsetto) and infinite talent, is a figure that grows bigger with the passage of time through an eclectic and avant-garde pop, as is his new album, ‘PO2054AZ’ . Like a strange leprechaun who wanders through the urban, he showed some of the songs with referents of that label, such as ‘Complemente loco’, with the super-producer Tainy, or ‘Uno de ese gatos’, with Sky Rompiendo, another reggaeton super-producer. They look for Sen Senra from the highest and from all fronts, for a reason.
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But the first day of Cruïlla has grown over the years and this year it has had a dozen well-run proposals. For example, taking references from two of the great focuses of the urban right now (and always): from Granada, Delaossa; from the Canary Islands, Cruz Cafuné. The rapper from Tenerife presented part of his excellent new album, ‘Me moveo con Dios’, boosted (just like his concert tonight), more than by an overwhelming force, by an ingenious lyric that he summarizes in one of his lyrics: “more codes than the CNI”. The man from Tenerife, who announced at the beginning of his performance that he would also review his “older songs”, was the culprit with ‘Mina El Hammani’ for the first massive pogos of the festival.
The combative note typical of the essence of rap stood out with Las Ninyas del Corro, a powerful Catalan duo that fired upward without compassion, and Santa Salut from Sabadell. “We are not female hip hop, we are hip hop. Period,” claimed the first. Local talent was also represented by the emerging Lia Kali and Triquell (both entrusted with the uncomfortable task of opening the festival), that ‘Eufòria’ contestant who is in a position to be a winner in music even if he didn’t do it in the TV3 program.