Quevedo knows that very, very recently he had a few dozen people in front of him. Today, if he squints a little to avoid being dazzled by the spotlight, he sees several thousand rioting to his songs. Knowing that it was an unthinkable routine a year ago, the Canarian rapper is honest and grateful and he reiterates it during his concerts, as he did this Friday in a full Sant Jordi Club (4,620 attendees) and surely he will also do it in his second performance in Barcelona (this Saturday). “I’m fulfilling a dream. If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t be here,” he said before leaving.
Quevedo is a man, 21 years old, at the time. And that’s why she started the concert with ‘Ahora qué’ (after Cruz Cafuné’s introductory speech), that song in which she promises: “2023 crown; 2024 disappear”. He enjoys the coronation, supported and surrounded by the friends with whom he has grown up in music.
On Friday night, Canarian artists performed on stage (several flags of the islands hung from the necks of attendees) such as Sergio ‘La Pantera’, Juseph and Maikel Delacalle, a company that served to explain, above all, the path (‘Piel de cordero’, ‘Chamaquita’, ‘Yatekomo’… .) until ‘Where I want to be’, the reason for this tour and the first album by a boy who has become a global star as a result of his collaboration with the producer Bizarrap. That song that remained at world number one for weeks and weeks that has remained to be remembered as ‘Stay’ even though that is not its title.
“Thank you for making history with me,” said La Pantera to the star of the night, which had, at least for the public, a crescendo that ended without surprise (of course, with his session with Bizarrap, a song that already has more than 1,200 million views on Spotify). But long before that, when little of the hour and a half of the canary concert had been consumed, ‘Yankee’ returned the ‘show’ to the path of ‘Where I want to be’, making it clear that this was the great claim for the attendees.
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Quevedo displayed a good part of the album’s songs (‘Sin señal’, ‘Dame’ or ‘Muñeca’) before producer Linton gained weight in the show. First playing the piano while the rapper sang an exciting ‘I’m missing something’; later when the celestial winds rumbled from the base of ‘Now and Forever’ (“I continue with the same chain that I have had since before I was a singer”says in this song from 2021 that it could keep its validity).
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Quevedo, close in his speeches, licks his success with his feet -apparently- glued to the ground, without levitating. And he does not show fatigue despite the vertigo of the last year. The canary sought the final rampage with a brief session of songs supported by electronic music such as ‘Real G’ (Bad Gyal was not there, outside of Spain), ‘Apa’ and ‘Lacone’, as well as with the presence of Lola Índigo to sing together ‘The fool’.
Other hits like ‘Playa del inglés’ (“you don’t know how surreal it is to listen to Myke [Towers] on a song of mine”, he opened up) or the very followed ‘Punto G’ ended up serving as a bridge -also before, surrounded by colleagues, the remix of ‘Cayó la noche’ sounded, something like the ‘new anthem’ of the Canary Islands- for the long-awaited finale that, like a blessed slab, was removed with the help of 4,620 people who will not hesitate for a moment to answer what their 2022 song was.