Coldplay surprised River with two former Soda Stereo

Chris Martin challenge the public in River Plate Monumental Stadium with a request: “I need a little help singing. They are the best singers (sic) of the world. are our friends Charlie Y Zeta. Make noise. Welcome our brothers.”

the shows record of Coldplay in Argentinafor the tour “Music of the Spheres”They had to end the story. Zeta Bosio Y Charlie Alberti they go on stage to sing along with the band “American blinds” Y “light music” -the hit that the English play, show by show, every time they set foot in Argentina-.

After jumping to the beat of the themes of Sodathe Monumental whole follows the instructions of Chris Martin, who asks everyone to raise their hands as a sign to heaven. At that moment, the bracelets that were given to each spectator at the beginning of the recital are dyed yellow and together –soda Stereo, Coldplay and the public – they sing to him “Yellow” to those who are no longer. Gustavo Ceratian “absent-present”.

There are invisible ties that connect people beyond the passage of time or any obstacle, and encounters that are dictated by fate. As if for it to happen it was just a matter of turning on the lights on stage, an audience acting as witness and the first chords beginning to sound.

That happened in issues 9, 10 and 11 of the list of the coldplay concert from this night. But how did you get to that magical moment?

The tripartite relationship between Coldplay, soda Stereo Y “light music” was installed a little over six years ago, when at a press conference in 2016, they asked Chris Martin what was the song that best defined the Latin American identity. On Mexican soil, days after leaving the City of La Plata Stadium after his performance on the tour “A Head Full of Dreams”, the British chose, among the millions of possible themes, the theme of animal song.

The following year, the English group returned to Argentina to close that tour, and a leaked video of the sound check of their show in Brazil anticipated the surprise: Chris Martin he sang to the city of the diagonals the verses of that national anthem. Gustavo Ceratieternal, to the rhythm of the most Argentine side of Coldplay.

After that, in 2019, soda Stereo presented a Manifest in which they defined Cerati as “a present absence”, and sentenced: “He said that no matter how hard we try, we will never stop being SodaAnd so it seems to be.”

On that occasion, they gave their fans a trip to the past with their tour “Total thanks”, a kind of tribute to the leader of the legendary trio. It was an event as historic as it was emblematic, in which artists such as Benito Cerati, Richard Coleman, Adrian Dargelos and, from now on, Chris Martin. In any case, due to the unavoidable distance, and almost like a prequel to music in a pandemic, her performance was through a screen.

Time passed, and the work is completed in the River Plate Stadiumduring the ninth of the string of 10 shows that Coldplay has in Buenos Aires. As in the beginning, Brazil is again the prelude, although the coincidence is incomplete because the band had to postpone its shows in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo until early 2023 because the singer suffered “a serious lung condition.”

However, this did not alter his plans in Argentina or that inevitable meeting. Chris Martin, Zeta Bosio Y Charlie Alberti (Y Gustavo Cerati from memory) share the stage for the first time, and they do it in a Monumental filled.

If you move the Rolling Stones Already Roger Waters As the band that attracted the most public on Argentine soil was not enough, on the night of this Monday in November, the European group leaves another chapter in the history of national music. The eyes of the entire stadium look at the sky -the one that according to Coldplay is full of stars-, and this time they don’t do it for the game of fireworks, pieces of paper and lights, but Cerati also went to see Coldplay and from the top sing along with them the verses “of that love”.

The moment is perfect and can only be closed in one way: Chris Martin look at your audience and, in almost perfect spanishsay the only two words that are missing in this scene, “thank you all”.