The great global party of Stromae and Bomba Estéreo

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Stromae

is a stage animal such as is rarely seen at a concert.

He completely dominates the stage and attracts the eyes of the entire audience like a magnet, and the most tremendous thing about it is that he does it without any apparent effort: he is the fascinating center of his show with an overwhelming naturalness.

And what a show.

Bomba Estéreo

are Latin modernity at its best.

What a group, friends, what luck to attend their evolution, each of their new songs and, of course, concerts like the one they held last night, because that's the word, at the Bilbao BBK Live festival, where they performed with all deserved on a stage and at an hour reserved for the stars and turned the human mass into a great cauldron boiling over a fire.

Bilbao BBK Live

Music.

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Music.

The Killers and the happiness of 30,000 people

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Stromae, formidable

They performed in a row, first the formidable Colombian band and then, in the early hours of an endless Friday, the charismatic Belgian artist, and so we enjoyed

a party inspired by non-Anglo-Saxon music, almost contrary to them: another way of making pop and dancing and enjoying it, without prejudice, without complexes and with a vibrant sense of modernity.

Stromae's third album,

, is not made for partying.

He himself explained in an interview with this newspaper: "Pop no longer inspires me like it did when I was younger, now I wanted to go deeper into traditional cultures."

Clever boy, the Belgian adapts his new songs to

and brings them closer to the euphoria of his first two albums.

Atmosphere at the Stromae.Sharon López concert

The show it offers is brilliant.

All the songs are enhanced by the staging, amplified by a set of lights that surrounds the stage box on all four sides and in the background with a pantallón: everything is mobile and changing, like his own songs, like himself while he is interpreting their songs.

At its core,

.

He can add an Andean guitar, African rhythms and a

melody to the same electronic

song and make it all sound like the pop that defines our time.

In an outstanding concert he reached the apotheosis when, already in the final stretch, he chained

,

and

, the three great

from his previous album,

.

With bass blasting, sternum vibrating, he transformed the festival lawn into a gigantic dance floor.

Bomba Estéreo's nightclub

But this enormous talent cannot overshadow Bomba Estéreo, which also provided the public, some 30,000 people, with several moments of collective climax.

Especially in the songs of

, his masterpiece from seven years ago, songs like

,

and

, which unleashed

in the Bilbao night.

Of all the groups, artists, DJs and producers in Latin America who in the last decade

to turn it into modern pop, Bomba Estéreo was one of the first and has been one of the best to do so. and they have always done so with their feet on the ground, not only in Colombia, but in Latin America in general.

Today they are by right an emblem of Latin modernity throughout the continent.

In their very modern performance, they combined electronics with Afro-

of ancestral inspiration, circular electric guitars and traditional percussion instruments of Colombian folklore.

A pagan ceremony whose result was a music of celebration: street and festive music like that of a carnival parade.

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