The thermometer marked 28 degrees when the public began to fill the Pedralbes gardens this Tuesday night, a heat tempered by the fans and the vegetation of the space that would soon pick up again thanks to Sebastián Yatra. The Colombian artist lives a sweet moment, turned into the friendly voice of reggaeton, while his steps and words follow each other to the millimeter, hunting for his love affair with the also singer Aitana. These rumors do not seem to matter much to this music traveler, born in Medellín and raised in the United States, who for some time has divided his time between Miami and Madrid, while consolidating a career in which he has been committed since he was a child.
That things are going well for him is shown by his participation in the Oscars last year, when he performed the theme Dos oruguitas from the Disney animated film Encanto, which made him the first Latino artist to interpret his own theme in front of the Olympus of cinema. , after Jorge Drexler was removed in 2005.
The Pedralbes stage was not a particularly appropriate place to dance, although that was not an impediment for the audience that filled the auditorium of the Nits de Barcelona until they ran out of paper, as they have also run out for their next date at the Cap Roig festival. Young audience, groups of friends, some with homemade banners with messages for the new 28-year-old idol to certify the success of the romantic reggaeton with which Yatra adds hundreds of millions of listeners, while cultivating the kind and close image that he transmits since he became known worldwide with Traicionera, dancing reggaeton without resorting to the loaded verses that have given the genre such a bad reputation.
The first-time hit by the Colombian was one of the songs chosen to start the concert, ten minutes late and a glimpse of light in the sky over the Pedralbes palace. A good part of the more than 2,000 attendees received the artist on their feet when he sang Couple of the Year, one of the most famous songs from his third album, Dharma, a Buddhist-influenced title to match the artist's last name, which according to himself explains means “sacred path to the divine”. Mística al servicio del perreo, which he sang accompanied by a band with bass, drums, keyboards and a rockier guitar than was to be expected. Four dancers (two men and two women) completed the cast moving to the rhythm of the songs with which he opened the evening, such as Sutra, Por perro or Ya no tiene novio, although none like the aforementioned Treacherous literally made the stands vibrate for the first time. of many tonight.
Throughout the concert, Yatra showed his versatility by interpreting pieces on the guitar, like that Cristina behind which many have wanted to see Aitana. O Una año, a song that she performed in Catalan at La Marató in 2020, as she did tonight in some stanzas, and that the audience closed chanting a cappella while shouts of "Handsome!" among the attendees.
Yatra also got behind the keyboards to perform solo on stage Come back and Give me back my heart, completing a block of ballads that drew applause from the audience, who knew the lyrics from top to bottom. The beats quickened with Ojos marrones and As of today, a single that he wrote hand-in-hand with David Bisbal during which Yatra went down to the audience to sing along with his audience, who celebrated even the smallest gesture while the sounds of the music played in the background. syncopated bass drum rhythms. Runaway continued the party, accompanied by squeals every time the artist pulled up his shirt to wipe off the sweat and show off pectorals while dancing songs such as Una noche sin pensar, with disco airs, the Caribbean Dharma or the reggaeton of Chica ideale. Constant party on a hot night that concluded with the recently published Vagabundo and, as a climax, the Red Heels to dance until the end of the night.
