TO Tow the almost 25 years of career They feel wonderful. And is not for less. Life has treated them well and album after album they have established themselves in the world of music following their instinct and their desire to communicate everyday stories with a rumba adapted to the 21st century with very varied influences. They go from Peret to Los Chichos, from Extremoduro to La Polla Records and from Serrat to Sabina and Albert Pla. But as David Muñoz explained, they also like “canis groups”.
They are not the best singers, nor the best lyricists or guitarists, but the brothers David and Jose Muñoz They have a special gift for connecting with the public as they demonstrated in their meeting with readers, workers and friends of The newspaper in the Old Damm Factory, where they made a musical journey through time. He started with the first song from ‘Estopa’, his debut album from 1999 and offered one from his latest new album, ‘Estopía’, a tribute to Pescaílla. Listen to them sing in Catalan ‘The rumba of Pescaílla’ It was not strange, even though his repertoire has always been in Spanish, the language of his parents, Extremaduran emigrants who put down roots in Cornellà.
The public chanted and sang both the chorus of this song and that of the majority of songs that they gave to the staff, in a concert where they were seen at ease, almost as a family, interacting with the public and with the bar waiters whom they claimed. some beers. The public was especially encouraged by hits like ‘The slit in your skirt’, ‘Red wine’ and ‘Like Shrimp’. David’s jokes alternated with Jose’s good humor, who gave the guitar to his brother in ‘I do not remember anymore’. They continue with the same passion with which they started. Maybe that’s why ‘Your heat’the first song from their first album, sounded as fresh as it did at the end of the 90s.
same spirit
If you look at a photo of them from today and 25 years ago you won’t see much difference. They remain the same, dressing in the same casual and unpretentious style as always. What has changed the most is Jose’s ponytail, which was short when they started and now reaches his belly. They say that he does not cut it for fear of losing the good star that has always accompanied them. It is Estopa’s amulet, who never forgets their humble origins and the time when they had to get up early, like any worker to go to work at the factory. Estopa is still going strong after 25 years about to release his eleventh album.
For this reason, despite having become musical heroes of Baix Llobregat – like Rosalía -, they remain faithful to their origins, to the essence of those kids from Cornellà who instantly connect with everyday stories from different times, both with ‘My first gray hair’ like when they start with ‘Bossanova’, the last piece of their first album, where they remember that bitter drinks are best sweetened with kisses. With it they said goodbye to a phenomenal concert in which there was only one drawback: there was no encore.
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Was a true luxury having them so close in the engine room of the Antiga Fàbrica Damm. It will not be the same when they perform on their next tour that will take them to places that are big words like the Barcelona Olympic Stadium on July 10, where they sold out all the seats in less than a day. At 25 years old, Estopa has fewer and fewer challenges left to overcome.