"In this industry there are a few more crazy people like us, we cannot stay in the offices, we have to take risks," warns the legendary Pino Sagliocco, president in Spain of the Live Nation event producer and responsible for the tours of stars like Michael Jackson, Madonna, the Rolling Stones or Rosalía. Sagliocco likes the mix: he joined Montserrat Caballé and Freddie Mercury in Barcelona. And now he thoroughly fuses flamenco – a genre that he has promoted by taking Camarón to Montreux or promoting the dancer Joaquín Cortés – and rock in Oco, the show.
A production with 23 artists on stage –from the saxophonist Tim Ries and the vocalist Bernard Fowler, who have accompanied the Stones for years, to the singer Antonio Carbonell and the dancers Belén López and Yiyo– that is performed until Sunday at Umusic Albéniz Theater in Madrid and which will return in October to the Ibercaja Delicias space produced by Letsgo.
Sagliocco explains the name of the show, One chance only, just one chance to see a show like this, and explains that it was born from a dinner with the Rolling Stones last year after their concert in Madrid in which, as a surprise, they prepared a Paint it black in flamenco version. Things grew when they were asked for something similar for an MTV event in New York.
And now it comes with a wardrobe in which the painter Lita Cabellut collaborates with the designer Juana Martín, with gastronomy by Rafa Zafra or an exhibition of portraits by Marco Maseda of singers who died at the age of 27, such as Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, to whom there will be musical tributes revisiting songs like Smells like teen spirit, where they will blend dance and rock por bulerías. In addition, Leonard Cohen's Hallellujah will have a soleá compás, Bowie's Let's dance will merge with the alegrías de Cádiz, I can't get no satisfaction with the tango or Give peace a chance with cantes like the colombiana or the garrotín.
