Eros Ramazzotti conquers the Maestranza at the premiere of his world tour

"I love animals very much and I don't like to see an animal killed, but the Plaza de la Maestranza is wonderful, a very beautiful place to make music and this gives it another meaning for me. And the city of Seville is beautiful" .

This is how

began the press conference held at the Hotel Alfonso XIII.

On the reason for choosing the Andalusian capital for the presentation of his new album, 'Battito Infinito' ('Infinite Heartbeat'), he replied that "I love Spain, because it was the one that opened the door for me to jump into the American market and launch my career there.

About the city, which he had not visited for almost 30 years, he said that he has seen it "dirty, like all of them after confinement. People have started to do exaggerated things, and to have fun and have a good time they do not respect the environment and that I do not like it".

In these many years of career behind him, music and formats are no longer what they were.

"Music, people, preferences have changed... I am no longer a child, I am my age, and I have seen that everything has become too similar, there is music that will not last long. But there is many artists from the 60s, 70s and 80s that are still heard, that are going to stay and that will last a lifetime".

Despite this, he said he did not totally disagree with this new type of music, but

and make an effort to make the records. Because I keep calling them records, not streaming. I like to continue with tradition. I'm a normal person. I believe in giving a lot to people, having fun and having a good time".

During his career, the Roman has collaborated with artists of the stature of Patsy Kensit, Tina Turner, Joe Cooker or Cher, and in recent years, with other very different ones -neither better nor worse-, such as Ricky Martin, Alejandro Sanz or Luis Fonsi .

"It has been because of the feeling that I have felt with those other artists. Perhaps there is no longer a Tina Turner or a Cher. But these artists now have a lot of quality. Alejandro Sanz is a very good musician and author, that's why I have recorded ' I dream of him".

He added that pop music "is going to stay in people's lives. Pop means popular. If there are other genres, that's fine with me. But the lyrics are very important, especially for young people, because it stimulates them a lot, and it is not good to follow lyrics that are not up to par or have a very strong meaning, that are not in line with the messages and teachings of parents to their children to enter society in the correct way".

About his compatriots Laura Pausini and the late Franco Battiato, he preferred not to opt.

Of the first, who refused to sing 'Bella ciao', he considered that "Laura did not want to give space to controversy", he applauded her attitude and said that she is "a very spontaneous person, who says what she thinks and you have to respect her ".

"I admire artists for their professional facet. Battiato was a great genius and has left a great legacy to musical culture. He was an artist of emotion. I don't care if he is on one side or the other of politics."

About 'Battito Infinito' ('Infinite Heartbeat'), he said that he would like to be said of him that he is "listenable. I have spent these two or three years with problems, like many of you, and I wanted to do something good. A song is not It's going to change people's lives, but it can bring something positive. The important thing is that the song lasts over time and that it continues to be heard, as has happened with so many of my songs".

All this happened one day before the premiere of his world tour, which begins with several concerts as an aperitif in what he has dubbed the World Tour Premiere: together with the one in Seville -within the series Noches de la Maestranza, led by Grupo Concert Tour-, his next appointments are in Agrigento, Verona, Athens and Caesarea.

To begin the great tour on October 30 in Los Angeles and tour America, Europe and return to Spain on March 31, 2023 at the Wizink Center in Madrid and on April 2 at the Palau San Jordi in Barcelona.

As for the concert, it was not wasted.

The square was delivered with the Italian from start to finish.

The song list, mostly in Italian, especially the ones on the new album.

But there were in Spanish and well chanted and applauded by the respectable.

"It will be a show, I will have a good time," he warned a day before.

So it was.

At 9:30 p.m. it was the appointment and punctual as a clock he appeared on stage, pants, t-shirt and black jacket, although this last garment did not last long.

He preferred to get rid of her and move with the ease and experience that his years of profession give him, even getting off the stage and approaching her unconditional fans.

He connected with the public, encouraged them to dance when they had to dance, as in his new song with Caribbean rhythms

among others, which sounded wonderful live and is a title to take into account as a possible great success. for the Italian, all with the help of a great band of the highest level that perfectly followed Ramazzotti's particular voice, which he continues as always, or even better.

Among the new songs, the one that gives the album its title, 'Magia', 'Ogni volta che respiro'.

'Ritornare a ballare' or 'Sono'.

Or that song from 2001 entitled 'Piu' che puoi' that she recorded with Cher that day and that she performed in Seville with the enormous voice of Mónica Hill, a member of her band.

Some long-awaited songs were not lacking: 'Solo con te', 'Se bastasse', 'Adesso tu' or 'Piu bella cosa' with which his concert ended, all of them sung by Eros between Italian and Spanish and by the public in Spanish.

We must also highlight the splendid assembly of lights and images that completed the stage.

And the surprise that he wanted to give to some of his childhood friends.

He took the stage to Marcelo and Wendi, who were celebrating their 25th anniversary as a couple-"I have lasted less", he joked-, to whom he dedicated a three-song mini-concert especially for them.

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