The author of 'A sailboat called freedom' starts a farewell tour next year, after the publication of the compilation 'Looking at your eyes'.
"Freedom is not heritage of either the left or the right"
José Luis Perales (Cuenca, 1945) announced this Friday that he is retiring from the stage with a tour that will begin on May 2 of next year in Roquetas de Mar (Almería) and that will culminate on December 17 at the Wizink Center in Madrid .
Author of successes for others ('Why are you leaving', by Jeanette) and for his own voice ('A sailboat called freedom', 'And how is he?'), Perales will retire from the concerts on the edge of the 76 years with a 'tour' that bears the name of 'Ballads for a farewell' and that, at the moment, has 15 dates. On November 19 tickets for the shows will go on sale.
The announcement coincides with the publication of a triple compilation album entitled 'Looking in your eyes'. A project divided into three distinct parts: 'Memories' brings together 15 great successes; 'Portraits' retrieves the songs back and forth that he has written for others or that he has versioned; and finally, 'Lost Melodies' recovers 10 hidden gems among the 'peraliana' discography.
The celebration is completed with a documentary, 'Something new to tell you', which runs a career that spans five decades and in which it has managed to sell millions of records worldwide.
"There are those who use any argument to achieve their ends. I have never played that, because I have always been on my own," said Perales in an interview with this newspaper in 2017. "I didn't even want to be a singer; just, Composer: I have been very little 'greaser' of my own machinery: I was very shy and should have promoted myself more , doing those things that artists do so that they talk a lot about them, about the photo with a beautiful lady ... But my way of being is ... very special. "
"I have gone around the world doing what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it. I have not been excessively ambitious, neither for the money nor for anything," he explained then. "Once the most elementary things were achieved, curiously, others came without looking for them. I would say that I have been even a little cowardly for this profession, in the sense of not risking too much or trying to give me the Grammy. I don't care."
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