An intense weekend is coming up in Barcelona, in which two of the most important concerts of the year coincide with Valentine’s Day. The British RAYE lands in the city for the first time a day before the curtain falls on her most ambitious tour full of salsa, rap or bachata. Everything is in the Palau Sant Jordi, while in each neighborhood of the city there will be Carnival parades. EL PAÍS selects the most notable ones and also a couple of parties in which to show off the costume.
RAYE: the new Amy Winehouse arrives in Barcelona
She was a shadow songwriter who wrote for Beyoncé, Charli XCX and Rihanna. He used his stage name, RAYE, to provide vocals to some well-known DJ tracks (You Don’t Know Me o Secrets) until one day he exploded on his networks announcing that he was breaking up with his record company because they wouldn’t let him release the music he wanted. Shortly after, as an independent artist, he published My 21st Century Bluesand with which RAYE became the artist to win the most BRITS awards in a single night. In songs like Escapism talks about addictions and in others like Ice Cream Man explains the sexual assault and abuse of power she suffered from her former promoter. All with a staging in which her mastery of voice and expressions remind some of Amy Winehouse. This Friday at 8:45 p.m. he arrives in Barcelona for the first time with This Tour Main contain new music; a concert in which he will present some of the songs from his next album as Where Is My Husband!
Nathy Peluso closes her tour at the Palau Sant Jordi
In just half a year, the most Spanish Argentine artist closes her most ambitious tour to date, with tickets sold out all over the world and headlining festivals such as Sónar, Lollapalooza and BBK. If you have attended any of these concerts, you will have witnessed the power of his voice and his dances, which range from rap, bachata or merengue. Genres you have experimented with on your latest album FAT and to which he has now added another, salsa, with his project Unportable (a six-song EP that he composed entirely in Puerto Rico). , tomorrow at 9 p.m. one of the most anticipated concerts of the year arrives at the Palau Sant Jordi; in which thousands of people will dance to songs like On horseback o Let it rain flowers. One of the best ways to celebrate Carnival or Valentine’s night.
Dance in costume in streets, old bullrings or historic dance halls
There are many options to show off your costume in Barcelona. Each neighborhood has its street, among which the Ravalstoltada which begins this Friday at 6 p.m. on the Rambla del Raval or the LGTBIQ+ Carnestoltes party that begins this Saturday at (there will be a parade, costume contest and drag performances that will last until one in the morning). Another open-air party is set up in the Plaza Monumental, where (from 3 to 11 p.m.) a special edition of the Monumental Club is held with the Alavedra concert and, after them, DJs who will play electronica, cumbia, merengue and dembow. When night comes, the best place to continue the carnival party is in the Sala la Paloma, where starting at 11 p.m. a Glove Party is organized to dance to disco and Italian music.
