The Central America Literary Festival hasorganized by the Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez, It was inaugurated pAsado May 20 in Guatemala with the stellar participation of the Spanish singer -songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat.
In the Lux Theater in the city center of GuatemalaRamírez inaugurated the festival tonight and as an outstanding part of the day he sat next to Serrat to remember anecdotes. The Spanish surprised for seconds with his voice.
They remembered their childhood, their beginnings in their musical career and their first tour in America almost 50 years ago.
“Mexico was where I was lucky that on my first trip I could face the tooth to play at the Palace of Fine Arts”Said Serrat. “And in 1973 I arrived for the first time to Nicaragua,” he said.
He also recalled as his first and unique participation in a musical festival took place in Brazil, the first country that played in America, where he was in sixth place, before the laughter of the spectators who approached Tuesday night at the Lux Theater in Guatemala City.
Among the reflections he also commented: “I am deeply against any censorship and in defense of freedom, of expression” and added “I can not understand a government capable of impoverishing its people censuring fantasy, imagination, talent, censuring everything that does not go in favor of work.”
(Listen to the complete talk in the following video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fzs-5hfv4q
He spoke in addition to his song Mediterranean, considered one of the best songs in Spanish of all time. “Mediterranean I wrote it in two in two in two villages. One on the coast of Mallorca that is called Cala d’Or and another called Calella de Palafrugell. I was by the sea when I started it and by the sea when I finished it, “said the musician.
If you are a follower of Serrat, you could pause to listen to the famous song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx5enAftlzg
One of the most emotional moments was at the moment that he made a reflection on his passage through life. “I remember with a sweet and grateful nostalgia all life traveled. LIt has been very good to life with me: people have been able to meet, I have been able to sing with the world, I have been able to share, live painful experiences sometimes, but at the end of accounts experiences. “
“I assure you that the worst thing I find apart from this strong and brutal time that we have to live, what hurts the most are the losses, that is, I feel the loss of someone who has been part of my life I feel that a part of me also leaves with him,” he said.
To conclude the activity sang for a few seconds Those little things And so he said goodbye to Guatemala.
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The 12th edition of the Central America Festival has place in Guatemala and will run until Saturday, May 24 with the participation of more than 60 literary creators coming from Spain, Chile, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina, among other countries, in addition to the host nation.
The inauguration It was marked by “the delivery of the legacy” of the Guatemalan writer and Nobel Prize Miguel Ángel Asturias -At that the festival is dedicated- to the box of the letters of the Cervantes Institute in Spain.
With information from EFE.