Fito Páez and Andrés Calamaro sang the song “La rueda mágica” as a duet during a show in Spain

Argentine musicians fito paez (Rosario, 1963) and Andrés Calamaro (Buenos Aires, 1961) have delighted 1,600 people at dawn this Sunday in Torres Park, in Cartagena (south), with the song “La rueda mágica”, on the third day of the 28th edition of the La Mar de Músicas festival.

A few minutes after midnight, the man from Rosario invited the man from Buenos Aires to take the stage, with whom he sang the eleventh song of his second concert at the Cartagena festival, where Páez already performed in the tenth edition, in 2004.

“Our life is a glass bed. And this life is made of glass. Our life is a glass bed. A crystal bed for both of us”with these verses sung as a duet, the two icons of Argentine music, with 16 Latin Grammy awards between them, have made a dedicated and surrendered audience roar, among which several shirts and albiceleste flags have been seen.

“La rueda mágica”, sung twice because Páez has recorded his performance in the three thousand year old city of the Region of Murcia for the official video of his latest album “EADDA9223″, for which he has needed two takes, it belongs to “El amor después del amor” (1992), the best-selling album of Argentine rock thanks to songs like “Tombs of glory”, “Traffic through Katmandú” or “Pétalo de sal ”, songs that have entranced the Cartagena audience, and for which the composer from Rosario had his compatriots Luis Alberto Spinetta, Charly García, Mercedes Sosa or Ariel Rot.

Thus, Calamaro has been fired amid Argentine cheers and shouts of “Ole, Ole, Ole! Andrés, Andrés! ”, In what has been a prelude to his performance this Monday in the same place.

For his part, Fito Páez continued his concert with songs played on the piano, such as “Dos días en la vida”, “11 y 6” or “Un vestido y un amor”, before an enthusiastic crowd that cheered him on with the same song as his partner and friend Calamaro, only changing “Andrés” for “Fito”.

Likewise, he has taken advantage of the pauses between songs to claim that “Argentine music is a world treasure, full of exoticism” and explain that his concert is “a ceremony through time” in which the public participates and with which it demonstrates to the world that “not everything is garbage”.

“Give joy to my heart”, this has been the theme chosen by Fito Páez to close his concert, a song in which the Cartagena public has given prominence, who have sung it a cappella for more than a minute, in a final climax full of emotion, for what they have experienced, nostalgia, for the past, and hope, for what is to come: “And give joy, joy to my heart. It’s the only thing I ask of you at least today. And bring joy, joy to my heart. Outside will go the sorrow and the pain”.

The third day of La Mar de Músicas began at 8:00 p.m. in the town hall square with a performance by the Murcian group Awakate, who, with their fusion of rap, Latin and electronic music, with songs like “ADN”, “Se pega” , “Rugido del sur” or “Las callás”, has made the faithful, neighbors and tourists dance, who have witnessed the concert of this sextet for free, which with its lyrics vindicates and defends “la murzia tropical”.

Likewise, the French singer and guitarist Gabi Hartmann has dazzled the audience at the Seafaring Instruction Barracks (CIM), in the historic center of the port city, with a repertoire of singles, such as “Lullbaby”, “Always seem ” or “Azza”, interpreted with a melodious voice full of sensitivity and sweetness, accompanied by guitar plucks and applauded by the 200 attendees of the 18th century building that houses the Faculty of Business Sciences of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena.

With information from EFE