MEXICO CITY.- Sam Smith began to celebrate his 32nd birthday with the most anticipated concert of the night at the festival Tecate Emblem of Mexico City, which on Friday brought together more than 59,000 attendees.
I have to tell you, it’s my birthday in two days, Smith said in one of his first interactions with the public. So please sing as loud as you can and let’s have fun, rain or not, let’s enjoy.
His words about the rain were serious, as his presentation progressed the spark turned into a welcome light storm after weeks of intense heat in the city.
The London singer had several costume changes and just when the rain was at its peak, he emerged on stage in an impressive black ball gown with a corseted waist and a wide skirt, as well as long green crystal earrings, which he showed off to the public before to dedicate a few words to them.
This year marks a very special anniversary for me and a very special year for anyone who has been with me since day 1, it’s been 10 years since my first album In The Lonely Hour came out and there are songs from that album that I have never sung live and I decided that this year I wanted to sing this one, he said. “I wrote it when I was so young and so heartbroken and so dramatic, and now every time I sing it I feel a little sorry for myself, but it’s very special to share it with you,” he added before performing Good Thing.
Stay With Me, Im Not The Only One and Lay Me Down were other songs from her debut album that she performed on the night. Nor could he miss his success with Disclosure Latch and other of his most popular songs such as Too Good At Goodbyes and Diamonds.
Smith closed his performance with a stunning rendition of his 2023 Grammy-winning Kim Petras hit Unholy, for which he and his corps of dancers dramatically performed the song in costumes that included black corsets and veils, in a mix of cabaret. and gothic motifs.
They must be my two lucky years, because we were just in Mexico City last year and I promise you, seriously, this is my favorite place to come on tour, they have given me the best concerts of my life here, he noted.
Other of the most anticipated artists of the night were the Italians of Mneskin, who managed to fire up the audience by inviting fans to the stage to sing Kool Kids, but also disconcerted them by having a rather long pause immediately afterwards, with about 20 minutes left. minutes until their concert ended, according to the festival schedule.
Many people began to leave, believing that the concert had already ended, when suddenly their guitarist Thomas Raggi reappeared for an explosive solo and then vocalist Damiano David, bassist Victoria De Angelis and drummer Thomas Raggi joined in. Although they returned, they were not as convincing, because in this encore they repeated I Wanna Be Your Slave, which they had already sung before.
Instead, one group that people can’t seem to get enough of right now is Belanova. The Mexican electropop band called a large part of the festival attendees to the KIA stage, the second largest in the Emblema, about two months after having another stellar presentation at the Vive Latino Festival, also in Mexico City. On this occasion they had Paty Cant as a guest, who hours before had appeared at the festival, for Your eyes. Belanova, who, more than two decades after its founding and after a few years away from the public, has experienced a great comeback thanks to the popularity of his music on TikTok, already has two dates scheduled for the end of the year at the Palacio de los Deportes.
Earlier in the day, Bu Cuarn, the daughter of Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarn, had her Mexican debut with a concert in which she performed songs from her EP Drop By When You Drop Dead. As expected, Cuarn was present at the concert, as was Bu’s mother, the Italian actress Annalisa Bugliani. But they were not alone, on stage Bu was accompanied by her brother Olmo on the guitar and her cousin Mateo on the synthesizers. Among the audience were Enrique and Joselo Rangel from Café Tacvba, the actor Diego Boneta, the Mexican DJ and producer Camilo Lara, the cinematographer Emmanuel Chivo Lubezki and the filmmaker Carlos Cuarn, Bu’s uncle and Mateo’s father.
Other artists who performed at the event were the Venezuelan-American Elena Rose and Nicole Zignago, daughter of the Peruvian singer-songwriter Gian Marco. Nicole swept the main stage with an afternoon concert and celebrated appearing at the festival for the first time a year after going as an audience to see Camilo, one of her favorite artists.
To close the night, the American DJ Marshmello presented a set different from what the Mexican public has been accustomed to lately, after hits with Latin rhythm songs such as El merengue with Manuel Turizo and Harley Quinn with the regional Mexican music group Fuerza Regida. Instead, this was a night of dubstep, trap, techno and other heavy electronic music mixes. Marshmello took the opportunity to premiere two songs that he had just finished. The audience danced with him until the end.
Emblema will continue on Saturday with performances by Anitta, Nicki Nicole, Lali, Nelly Furtado, Christina Aguilera and Calvin Harris.
FUENTE: AP
