The Colombian singer Fonseca and the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia shone today at the opening of the XIII International Book Fair of Panama, with a concert that included the successes of the singer-songwriter involved in the tenacity and elegance of more than 50 musicians.
The artists put the stamp of their country in the Panamanian fair, which this year has as a guest and honored the Andean nation, which comes with a troupe of 14 renowned writers.
Fonseca's audience gave off ovations with songs like "I command you flowers", "Arroyito", "Eres mi Sueño" or "Paraíso", the latter that received a waste of intensity of the orchestra. Fonseca wrote it for the film "Paradise travel" (Simon Brand, 2008), a film based on the book of his compatriot Jorge Franco.
The director of the Symphony, Paul Dury, surprised even the singer when proposing in an apparently improvised gesture the first interpretation in this fusion format of "I came to look for you".
The singer-songwriter took the opportunity to pay homage to Panamanian Omar Alfanno, with whom he and Cuban Yadam González composed the song, deserving of a Latin Grammy in 2016.
Fonseca, dressed in a tight formal suit, came out in style from his "comfort zone" and versioned "My Valentine" by Paul McCartney or the classic "What a Wonderful World".
He also responded with humor and affection to the cries of "I love you" of several women of the public and along with Dury promised a "symphonic vallenato" for the next year, after hearing the demand that a brave spectator vociferated.
The concert was preceded by the projection of an engraved message from Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, who thanked the election of Colombia as the flagship of this edition of the Panamanian book fair.
For Santos, the mention is a pride and more at a summit, when the "golden wedding" of "Cien años de Soledad", a flagship work of the Colombian Literature Gabriel García Márquez, and as the country moves to the End of a decades-long armed conflict.
"Gabo was one of the great defenders of a negotiated way out of the conflict," said the president in a video of few minutes, projected in the theater Anayansi of the city of Panama.
"Artistic expressions are also a scenario of reconciliation and we want to share these achievements with the Panamanian public," added Santos.
Fonseca's songs accompanied by the energy of the musicians of the orchestra, in a format that received a Latin Grammy in 2014, flooded the theater, located in the Atlapa convention center, where until next Saturday will take place the Book Fair.
Panamanian Foreign Minister and Vice-President Isabel De Saint Malo and Colombian Culture Minister Mariana Garcés were among the public.
