Clarin 12.22.2018
In Barcelona
Joan Manuel Serrat gave points to an independentist who asked him to sing in Catalan
The artist, who was performing in his homeland, interrupted the concert and dedicated a two-minute monogram to the spectator who reproached him for singing in Spanish ( and he is perhaps one of the artists who most publicly defended his native Catalonia) .
Joan Manuel Serrat was born in Barcelona in 1943 and is perhaps one of the artists who most publicly defended his native Catalonia. Maybe that’s why he couldn’t stand it when, while he was giving a concert in his city and in front of his people, a spectator reproached him for singing in Spanish.
Sing in Catalan, we are in Barcelona, they shouted when a piano and a violin could barely be heard in the background. “Nano” raised his left arm and gestured for the band to stop playing. What followed were two minutes of a monologue in which Serrat showed his anger but without losing his composure: 
“Look, there is always someone who has no idea about a show,” Serrat began, and immediately asked those who began to applaud him for silence. . .
” This album was composed in Spanish 7 years ago and this show reviews it from top to bottom. I know perfectly well that I am in Barcelona, ”I’m sure you know it before you do. And before you are working for this city ,” one launched. of the most recognized Spanish-speaking authors.
And he continued : I ask you to let me do my show as it is designed. I assure you that it is the first time that I have to stop the show, which has toured all over the world, because someone says something like that, telling you that you can feel proud, she concluded. Serrat has been one of the most defenders of earth metals in Catalonia . Throughout his career, for example, he refused to represent Spain at a European festival because the government of Francisco Franco prohibited him from performing the song “La, la, la” in Catalan.
But there are those who reproach Serrat for having spoken out against the unilateral declaration of independence. So much so that there were those who called him a traitor and started a campaign against him on social networks.