At the age of 74 and without more than a few hours of rest between some of his commitments, the Spanish singer Raphael is again on tour big time, a few days after stepping for a second time in less than a year the majestic Royal Theater. "I like the theaters and La Zarzuela will always be my theater because it was the first theater where I played, but I enjoy the concerts for the masses more because I have more room on stage and the view reaches farther," says Efe the only one Spanish with a uranium album for his total sales (more than 50 million copies) of countless albums that neither he can calculate anymore. Miguel Rafael Martos Sánchez (Linares, 1943) adds that these colossal spectacles have taken their toll since 1967 when he stepped on the tables of the mythical Madison Square Garden in New York, with the capacity to burst. "The public is more diverse and you can see people more and less pasota, fans of all life and young people ...", explains the interpreter, who boasts that he has been increasing in his shows the list of new followers, Especially since he played in the "indie" Sonorama festival in Spain in 2014.
Just to get closer to the way these generations say and sing "I love you", Raphael went to much younger and pop composers who nourished unpublished themes from his album "Infinitos dances" (2016), which motivates his current tour. Apparently incombustible, has managed to reduce the duration of their concerts to "two and a half hours." "I had always tried, but the public asked me more and more and I had to please him, now they are respecting me," he says. "I do not do anything special to take care of my voice, but I do not neglect it. I do not smoke and that already gives me an advantage", he says after some comments in articles and social networks that in his previous concerts he attributed a certain fatigue to him. Have not you thought about doing a little more relaxed tours? "Equally next year I take it another way, because I'm going to make a movie", confirms, without offering more details of the film that will happen to "Mi gran noche" (2015), by Álex de la Iglesia. He has been working for more than half a century, but he adds: "I'm not a person who talks a lot about the past. Maybe there's the trick of being so advanced ... And I've done things," he says. Room Madrid Joy Eslava, with leather sucker and a band with the classic composition of a rock concert. Only one thing seems to disturb him, the latest terrorist attacks on concerts with large concentrations of people. "I do not think it's an attack on the music, because it's the same for airports or trains, but what is clear is that we are living a bleak world and we have to try to make the best of it" , He points out.
