Sergio Dalma: "The role that we who dedicate ourselves to music must adopt now is to transmit good vibes and positive things"

Josep Sergi Capdevila Querol, artistically known as Sergio Dalma (Sabadell, Barcelona, ​​1964), looks full.

You can finally do two of the things you like the most: promote a new album and come to Madrid for it.

"I must be a weirdo, but I already wanted this, I missed

lot

; I don't like doing things online, not even by

I find it very cold," says the singer.

The

in question is by

, a work that has just been released on CD and with a different cover, larger than normal, with a lot of color and with a careful booklet that includes the lyrics of the 12 songs, as in the past.

He will present it live to the public on a tour that will start on January 9 in Barcelona and that will take him throughout 2022 throughout the Spanish geography, to then make the leap to Latin America.

The format of the disc is very striking, yes, the presentation is larger.

You have to take risks, because not everything has to be

There are people who still like to buy the physical disc, even the vinyl is being recovered. We know that society has changed, now music is consumed in a different way. We were a generation that saved up to go buy that album that you liked with all the illusion, there was a ritual of opening it, removing the cellophane, reading the lyrics, listening to it in its entirety ... nowadays that is no longer carried. But there are still many nostalgic for these things and hence this album. Does 'Joy' reflect your state of mind? It is the spirit of an album that was born in full confinement. I hadn't done anything like it and had to reinvent myself a bit, talking to authors online and setting up a small home studio to test the voice. I never imagined that an album like this could come out, with that vital and colorful tone. If I got that title a few years ago,he would not have had the strength or the weight as great as he has now. In fact, the cover and the photos are very naive, looking for the green, because we were locked in and what we wanted was to fly. Does music have the power to change things? The role that we who dedicate ourselves to this have to adopt now it is precisely transmitting good vibes and positive things to people.

is full of fresh themes, Mediterranean sounds, rumbas ... to the point that I had to ask the authors to send me a ballad, because that is what my audience is used to [laughs]. But always happy, I did not want anything sad, we are already too screwed up to send them sad messages. But we needed to do this, even the video of the theme of

marks the power that music has to change things.

Your last tour, the one of '30 ... and so much 'had to be hastily interrupted by the pandemic. Does that give you more strength to start the next one? It was a very special tour, which made me very excited, because I was celebrating 30 years with my audience. It was a very nice show and, unfortunately, it ended and we couldn't get to the cities we wanted, like Madrid, which had to be canceled. But I will make up with

, preparing a new show. It will focus on the new album, fundamentally. I want to recover something that we did a long time ago, as it is the most acoustic moment of the

, even with another sound, such as the double bass, and recover some songs in that format. It will be like doing a concert within the concert itself. I suppose there will be no lack of 'Bailar pegados'. No, of course. I always incorporate it directly into the repertoire. There are five or six songs from that first stage that I have never stopped singing, but I have also made them not weigh on me, because we have constantly updated them, with new versions to make them sound current. I can not interpret that

from when the Eurovision was played, because the sounds have changed, and now I sing it in a different way, but it is a song that continues to excite me. Do you think any of your new songs will achieve the success of 'Bailar pegados'? I don't know. Honestly, everything has changed a lot and at the time I did not believe that this song could have had as much life as it does, but I did not imagine that

it would become a trilogy. We are at a time when you do not know what can happen, but, at least, the songs on this album were made to encourage people, make them happy, escape a little from everything that has happened to us ... Time will tell if it is a good album, if it is the best or if any of these songs will have another life. Do you see yourself changing records to reach a different type of public? No, I do not pretend it; this album is already a step forward, but it would be unnatural for me. I have an audience that has grown with me and I have never tried to make music to reach the young people of today, because it would not be natural. The youth who come to my concerts have spontaneously joined because they have heard my music at home from their parents. We are the classics and people now want to hear new things;there is a generational change and we do not have to pull our hair, it is normal.

Sergio Dalma and Antonio Heredia.

Is your participation in Eurovision still one of the most special moments of your career? I have sung in stages that I could never have imagined and I have participated in festivals, such as San Remo, that remind me how privileged I am to have lived it . I will always remember that Eurovision at Cinecittà in Rome, in 1991, which was very special for me, but now I see the images and it seems like an end-of-year festival compared to what the contest is today. Well, well, how good to have lived that time and how good to be active in it, right? After 30 years, do you still get nervous going on stage? A lot, and now more than ever, because of the current situation. That is, to that person who bought a ticket, then the concert was canceled and has kept it in time to come and see me now,I have to give her everything and that is why I demand a lot of myself. I think nerves are necessary, because they mean that responsibility weighs on you, and they shouldn't go away. But luckily once you step on the stage, they leave and you enjoy it. Do you prefer the more intimate concerts? Yes. In the end you get used to everything, but if I can choose, I prefer a more intimate concert in a theater. Acting in a theater is a wonderful thing. The silences in the middle of a song sound totally different, because you can almost almost engage in a dialogue with the audience, something that is sometimes lost in larger venues. Are you planning to retire one day or an artist never does? I have promised the people in the office that until age 65, if health permits, I will be there. But as it all goes, it is not known if it will have to be lengthened a bit at the end.What I do know is that I would not like the public to retire. But yes, I would like to enjoy myself as a person and remember my time as an artist from another perspective. I would maybe do a concert for

the bug in a coffee bar or in a small room, something more quiet and intimate. This is a job that captures you a lot and creates a lot of addiction and it is difficult to disconnect from everything, but I would do it in a different way and with another intensity. Do you go unnoticed on the street? Yeah, and if not, I try, because I am one of those who when I finish singing, I disconnect and forget about Sergio Dalma. Now I live in a small town with very few inhabitants in Empordà (Gerona) and, therefore, I love coming to Madrid. When I'm here, even for promotion, I ride the subway, I go to the market, I walk around the city a lot and do everything because I feel like it ... After living here for 29 years, I returned to Catalonia to be with my parents and, now, when I come, I do things that I didn't do before, like a tourist. And, if people stop me, I take photos, I talk to them ...that's the beauty of this job.

Data of interest:

Tickets for the concerts of the new

tour

in

(January 9 at the Gran Teatre del Liceu) and

(January 28 at the WiZink Center) are already on sale.

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