The Spanish singer Joaquín Sabina, away from the stage after the fall he suffered in Madrid in 2020, announced in San Sebastián (north) a new album produced by Leiva and a tour of America and Spain starting in February.
“I don’t go on tour if I don’t have new songs,” Sabina said at the press conference for the presentation of “Sintarlo mucho”, the documentary about her figure that Fernando León de Aranoa shot and that today will be previewed at the Film Festival of Saint Sebastian.
After the success of “I deny everything” (2017), his first album with Leiva as producer, the 73-year-old musician confirmed that “there will be another” and that he hopes it will be released at Christmas.
As for the tour, it only advanced that it will start at the end of February in Latin America, which will include Argentina and then come to Spain, and America again. “We’re signing gigs,” he noted.
The documentary, which does not yet have a theatrical release date, collects moments shared between the filmmaker and the singer over thirteen years, from the last concert in Madrid with Serrat, to meetings with friends in his Madrid apartment, a tour of Mexico or a tribute received in Úbeda, his hometown.
León de Aranoa, winner of the last Goya awards with “El Buen Patron”, has said that it all started by chance and that it was Sabina who invited him to go on a car trip with him and with the writer Benjamín Prado, whom she could take the camera.
It was the first of many moments recorded without a plan or roadmap, until three or four years ago he decided to collect it and look for the structure of the documentary.
“I have succeeded in the microgroove and now I want to succeed in celluloid”, said a smiling Sabina, who linked one ingenious phrase after another, with a voice, yes, very deteriorated.
“Once I had a better voice and the record company told me that this way we wouldn’t sell a record… it’s a marketing strategy, I make people feel happy because they think they sing better than me,” he continued joking.
That sense of humor is very present in the film, which voluntarily renounces any hint of solemnity. “The artist must take what he does seriously, out of respect for the public, but not for himself, solemnity is the end of any artistic adventure and we have fled from it like the plague,” the singer stressed.
León de Aranoa, for his part, explained that his purpose with Sabina was never to make a testimonial with people giving their opinions, but to collect “live moments”, including the complicated ones in which “you really understand what a person is like”.
He was referring, for example, to the day on which the singer, a great fan of bullfighting, went to greet José Tomás at the bullfight in Aguascalientes (Mexico) in which he received a serious goring and, with the uncertainty about his state of health , went on stage and performed before 8,000 people.
Sabina confessed to being a “fatal” spectator of himself. «I am more modest than my caricature says; my wife, who is not at all given to giving compliments, fundamentally to me, she told me as soon as she saw me that Fernando had taken my soul ».
