The idyll that Melendi has maintained with his audience for almost two decades now seems to have no end. At each new concert, her unconditional fans are joined by others who have heard her greatest hits at home because her parents never got tired of listening to her singles over and over again.
The Serrano-Belmonte family, from Riudarenes, have passed on this interest to their daughters, Ània and Irina, aged 11 and 16, who this Friday did not want to miss the date with Melendi at the Idyllic Festival in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, which in their first edition and on its first day, it packed the 5,000 seats available at the Guíxols Arena with an eminently female and mostly young audience.
"When I go on stage, I think I won't be able to stop crying," the eldest said excitedly. "Maybe me too", added the mother in her first live concert by the Asturian artist. It wasn't until after ten o'clock when Melendi stepped on stage before a completely devoted audience, who chanted and danced to his songs.
Among the attendees, several generations united by their music. Twenties, like Mar Fernández and Xènia Riera, used to her songs and lyrics since they were little girls, and forty-somethings like Cèlia Sànchez, from Calafell, who follow her wherever she goes. "I've seen him 15 times or more and I never get tired," she commented while she was queuing, enduring the heat of justice, to access the venue. Precisely the heat caused some fainting among the attendees, a fact that forced Melendi to interrupt the concert.
Cèlia also never tires of hearing 'La promesa', one of her most popular songs, and many others such as 'A violinist on your roof' or 'Caminando por la vida', with which she raised the audience from the stands that were still sitting and that tonight have resounded very strongly in the Guíxols Arena and where it has become clear that the succession of the Melendi public is fully guaranteed.
The hot afternoon of concerts on the first day of Idílic had begun with Marlena, the duo formed by Ana Legazpi and Carolina Moyano, whose performance included a surprise for the artists and for all the audience gathered in the audience: a young woman proposed to her girlfriend, before the 'ooooohhhs' and applause from the public at the gesture. The recently engaged young women sang 'Muñequita de cristal', one of the hits of the Madrid duo that is a revelation of music in Spain.
It was followed by the pop-rock of Maldita Nerea, the quintet led by Jorge Ruiz with several platinum records to their credit, who started their performance with 'Nunca estás sola', a song that was followed by others that were chanted by the crowd that was filling the audience as 'Do not ask for such an idiot', 'In the great world', 'Sorry if I call you love' or 'The secret of the turtles', one of the most anticipated lyrics by the public, for the 'turtles', the name by which his fans are known.
Pole, the name with which the young Toledo artist Andrés López Lancha presents himself, who at 24 years old has gold and platinum records and hundreds of millions of views on digital platforms, showed why he has won the love of thousands and thousands of fans putting the public in their pocket with their mixtures of urban, pop, rock and electronic music and their scenic strength. In Sant Feliu de Guíxols there was no shortage of hits like 'Batmovil Remix' or 'Stay with me'.
The contagious energy and catchy lyrics of La la love you, one of the most popular bands on the Spanish alternative music scene, excited the public who, at that time of the afternoon/evening, had gotten rid of a little (just a little) from the muggy heat thanks to a gentle breeze. 'I had so much to give you', the new version that they recorded with Nena Daconte in 2021 and 'The end of the world' are some of the songs with which they gave the public a gift.
At the close of this edition, La casa azul, the band led by Guille Milkyway, had yet to perform. On Saturday the party will continue at the Guíxols Arena. It will be the turn, among others, of Dani Fernández and his band, who will present their latest album 'Between doubts and chance' and Danny Ocean, one of the most listened to Latin artists of the moment.
