The day has come to see Jorge Drexler in Medellín

For Jorge Drexler, the generation of intimacy or the joy of a concert are independent of quantifiable numerical variables, which is why he will always prefer to be in a place with 50 people for the right reasons than 5,000 for the wrong reasons.

The Uruguayan singer-songwriter closes this part of the tour today in Medellín Ink and Time which took him to Uruguay, Brazil and Colombia. Weeks that have been full of surprises, such as the biggest concert of his life, in Uruguay, or the largest he has had in Colombia and almost that of the tour: yesterday’s at the Movistar Arena in Bogotá, which can fit 14,000 people.

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“Colombia has always been very generous with me, I recorded an album here that I love very much, I have family in Colombia, It is a country for which I have a very special love and a very solid musical connection. and they had always been very generous with me, but this is slightly exceeding all our expectations, ”he said in a conversation with EL COLOMBIANO hours before his concert in Medellín.

Here it will be presented at the Metropolitan Theater, today at 8:00 pm “The truth is that whenever we go to Medellín we have an incredible time, it is a city that I adore, which is an example for all the rest of the cities of Latin America” .

For Drexler, Medellín is a model of social reconversion, a place that has risen above its vicissitudes and that generates hope that urban change is possible. “Medellin fills us all with hope, always.”

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intimate concert

The amount of public that has been generated on this tour implies challenges for his team because repertoires are tested, there are challenges for the technical team, there are places that sound different, that have a different amplitude and that is why he has to adapt because for him it is vital to generate intimacy with the public during their concerts. “That intimacy is independent of size: you can feel uncomfortable in a bar playing for 20 people or very intimately connected with 5,000 people in a larger venue.”

Although I prefer that exercise of emotional connection that is generated in the (smaller) theaters, he is aware that what is happening is part of the gradual process of his careerthat so many songs have accumulated and that people have integrated drop by drop, “so little by little that it gives me a lot of hope to believe that the people who go there know very well what they’re going to do”.

Drexler takes up the other surprises that this tour has had, such as playing in his native Uruguay after three and a half years without doing so, a concert with a range of emotions that ranged, for him, from euphoria to very intense nerves“because I don’t know if we all admit that playing at your house, in addition to being happy, makes you very nervous, because the challenge has unique characteristics, you’re reuniting with people who know you very well”.

He recounted how he lived his birthday in Brazil —he reached 58 years old on September 21—. The celebration began on the 20th with a party at the house of the singer-songwriter Marisa Monte, attended by her friend Caetano Veloso: “I am very lucky, life and music have given me things that I hope to deserve and would like to deserve, and that I have never I had imagined having the presence and friendship of people that I also admire and who have been completely decisive in my career as the figure of Caetano or Marisa”.

That, he explained, was a beautiful night, and on his birthday he attended a television program with a birthday atmosphere and the concert was the day after, “and I also had half-political, birthday songs, all mixed.”

Precisely in Brazil, the country where Drexler plays as a local (he speaks perfect Portuguese thanks to the strong cultural relationship between Uruguay and Brazil and part of his family that is Brazilian) he was lucky enough to fill several concerts in several cities where people prefer that I sing in Spanisheven if they have versions of their songs in Portuguese, something that is not usual for cariocas who have their own repertoire and very successful artists in their language.

“Furthermore, I took hold of Brazil at a very special, historical moment and the political excitement in the atmosphere and the desire for change that the whole country has was palpable.” Brazil will have general elections this Sunday, October 2.

The one from Medellín will close this part of the tour with so many memories to pack in the suitcase on the way home. He has everything to be a unique and unforgettable concert