Juanes was reunited with Colombia and showed why he is still ‘the king’ | VIDEOS

In March 2020, Juanes He had everything ready to present himself in Bogotá with the album tour “More future than past”. The Colombian would celebrate the 20th anniversary of the start of his solo career at home, but the COVID-19 pandemic changed his plans and he had to wait 2 years to be able to meet the date on the agenda. Time, in the end, played in his favor. On the night of February 26, 2022, Juanes took to the stage of the Movistar Arena, one of the most important ‘venues’ in the Colombian capital, to give a show that will be difficult for his fans to forget.

To the nostalgia for the celebration of the (now) 22 years of release of “Look well” (his first single outside of Ekhymosis, the band with which he became known in his country), the songs of “Origen” were added , the album he released in 2021, in full quarantine, and in which he paid tribute to the music that influenced him as a child. The result? A show of just over 2 hours and 32 songs with which Juanes confirmed that he is an increasingly solid artist on stage or as at one point in the concert he defined in his own words: “Since 1997 and we continue to give lora, dad” .

The concert started at 8:20 at night. The lights went out and the members of the Juanes band entered the stage: the also Colombians Juan Pablo Daza (guitar), Emmanuel Briceño (keyboards) and Felipe Navia (bass), the Venezuelan Richard Bravo (percussion) and the Argentine Marcelo Novati (drums) People began to cheer, but the applause became much more intense when Juanes entered and the 14,000 people in the arena stood up to receive one of the most famous Colombians in the world.

The public’s gestures of respect were constant throughout the concert. They sang to Juanes and danced to all the songs, from the oldest ones -like “La camisa negra” and “A Dios le pido”- to the most unexpected ones, like a cover of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman”. Because, although the Colombian’s admiration for the legendary metal band is well known, the songs he chose for “Origin” are mostly Spanish-speaking.

What’s more, the concert in Bogotá started with Juanes’ version of “El amor tras del amor” by Fito Páez, continued with “No Tengo Dinero” by Juan Gabriel to later go through the Ecuadorian corridor “Nuestra juramento”, the tango ” Return” and the danceable “La bilirubina” by Juan Luis Guerra. Starting with the sixth theme, the repertoire was sprinkled between his ‘greatest hits’ and his covers. The Colombian excelled on the electric guitar (doing a good tandem with Juan Pablo Daza) and on the acoustic: with “Para tu amor”, for example, he came down from the stage and did a kind of unplugged act in the middle of the audience located on the stadium’s court. former El Campin Coliseum.

Always in contact with the audience (pacing from one side of the stage to the other or saying how grateful he was to be back in Bogotá), Juanes took the opportunity to tell the stories behind some of his songs: the birth of his daughter Luna 18 years inspired “Para tu amor”, the bar on the first floor of the house where he lived with his parents as a child in Carolina del Príncipe (Antioquía) was an excellent school from which he took some of the sounds of his music and a phrase What her mother, Alicia, now 91 years old, told her was the beginning of “Life is a little while”.

When he sang that song, well into the concert, Juanes reflected on the new war that has been unleashed in Europe after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, on the problems that afflict Colombia and the still-unovercome pandemic. “These seem like dark days and make us lose hope. Sometimes we take things for granted, but life is sacred, that’s why I value now more than ever, I value being here with you more than two years ago,” said the musician, who dedicated the song to the late journalist Natalia Castillo, murdered last December, in an attempted robbery in the town of Teusaquillo that generated outrage.

Although almost the entire concert, there were 6 musicians on stage: Juanes and his band, the Colombian had two luxury guests on the evening; First there was the Spaniard Pablo López, with whom he sang the song “Tu Enemigo” and whom the man from Antioquia showered with praise. “If you don’t know Pablo’s music, look for it, he’s crazy, a poet, a genius,” he said of the artist who was also in charge of opening the show.

At the end of the show, for the first ‘encore’, Juanes invited Fonseca to the stage, because “I can’t leave Bogotá without singing a vallenato”. Together they interpreted “Without measuring distances”. But the closure of everything could not be better. Juanes, already wearing a black t-shirt from the official ‘Origen’ tour merch instead of the red shirt with which the presentation began, invited the group Mariachi Contemporáneo and made a potpourri of rancheras that was sung loudly at Movistar Sand.

Thus, the Colombian said goodbye with “La mediavuelta”, “Si nos dejan”, “Querida” and “El rey”, which must be precisely how Juanes felt on stage, but an admired and respected king: whom the people applauded for several minutes when he announced the end of the show with: “Tonight has been unforgettable for me, it will never get out of my head. Happy night to all and all”.

This was the setlist of the concert:

• The love after Love
• I do not have money
• Our oath
• bilirubin
• Return
• Photography
• To see you again
• For your love
• Is for you
• Bad people
• Black shirt
• could you be Loved
• The payment
• life is a bit
• Sweet water drops
• Pay attention
• Only
• The earth
• Your enemy (with Pablo López)
• Rebellion
• It makes me fall in love
• I pray to God

ENCORE:

• Without measuring distances (with Fonseca)
• Enter Sandman
• I am worthless without your love

• Dear
• The king
• Divine women
• Turn around
• Return
• If they let us

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The “Origin” tour began at the end of 2021 in the United States, where Juanes has toured more than a dozen cities. Bogotá has so far been the only Latin stop on the tour, which will have new dates in North America in March.

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The Movistar Arena in Bogotá has hosted several massive events this 2022. The night before the Juanes concert, the Mexicans from Zoé managed to ‘sold out’ with a super rock concert in which their hits “Velur”, “Azul” and “Moon”. Soon, this place will also be the stage for shows by Miley Cyrus, Raphael and the Colombians from Morat, who have already sold out the three dates they have on the agenda.

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