Luis Miguel moves slowly so as not to outrun the shadow of his bodyguard who is chasing him with a black umbrella.
The garúa seems like too big a setback
for the Mexican who for years has walked the stages like a job by regulation.
The show in Córdoba is suspended halfway through the repertoire.
That water that frustrated the Córdoba fans seems to be
the element that enhances the superpowers
of one of our national heroes:
Charly García.
Almost 25 years ago,
Carlos Alberto García Moreno inaugurated the 21st century with the jump
into a pool from the ninth floor of a Mendoza hotel after a furious night.
Light, he throws himself forward with his arms extended like wings and rotates in the air until he falls slightly on his back.
One of the journalists who is at the edge of the pool confronts him: “Where did you leave Superman's cape, Charly?”
García answers “in your room” and continues swimming.
The water transforms into his rock baptism.
In October it will be 20 years since the recital that left one of the most beautiful postcards of Charly García: the Quilmes Rock 2004 at the Ferro Carril Oeste stadium.
As a custom of those years, the preface of the show is marked by tension.
At the time scheduled for the start of the recital, García is still at his home in Coronel Díaz.
He drops in late and in a white limousine.
As if it had been scripted, the rain starts while Crying in the Mirror plays.
A while later, he walks along the catwalk naked and with his face stained with red paint that is gradually washing off.
“And if it rains and I get wet, I don't get angry because I don't shrink,"
he says – in good humor – while playing
Seminare
. Seconds later he stands on the grand piano and opens his arms to the sky while the water falls like braids. García It gets wet but it doesn't go out. There are fires that are like that.
But the rain was never as strong as in the recital he gave on October 23, 2009 at the Vélez stadium.
That day, Charly returns after having a hard time due to health problems.
To celebrate this rebirth and his 58th birthday, he promises fireworks, dozens of screens and De la Guarda artists hanging from harnesses.
The storm destroys the plans: the evening only includes rock and it is worth it.
“This is the first underwater concert in the world,” says García, and it is so good that it becomes the sixth live album of his solo career.
The show starts the same despite the gale and a storm alert.
Once again, in a twist of fate, the fury of heaven is unleashed when Luis Alberto Spinetta takes the stage and the first chords of
Rezo Por Vos
begin to play .
Apotheotic.
And Charly doesn't stop.
After Flaco there are 13 more songs under a curtain of unbearable water.
Because maybe this is also what rock and roll is about.