This Saturday, May 4, and for the first time, Angela Carrasco’s voice will fill the spaces of the Lehman Center, in a concert that the Dominican singer describes as a “long-awaited” date with New Yorkers.
“I’m looking forward to reconnecting with my Latin audience, especially with the audience from the Dominican Republic. People are going to recognize my rhythm, my songs, my classics. “I am very excited,” she commented from her home in Madrid, days before embarking on a flight to the Big Apple.
The last time Carrasco, one of the most famous Latin American female voices of the 1970s, sang in New York, as she remembers, it was with the late Spanish singer Camilo Sesto, with whom she performed an artistic duo that took her to multiple stages. and earned him great success both in Latin America and in the United States and Spain.
“Singing in New York is like a delicious meal, because it has a little bit of everything, from all countries, especially Latin American. I know that I am going to meet a lot of Dominicans, but also people from all parts of our great America,” he says.
Carrasco, winner of the Gran Soberano, the main award given by popular and classical art in the Dominican Republic, is the voice of many songs that are part of the history of ballads in Spanish, such as “Quererte a ti”, “Si tú estars”. mi hombre y yo tu mujer, “Callados”, “Ese Hombre es”, among many others, which will be part of Saturday’s repertoire, as well as the new songs from his latest production, “He and I”.
“It is a beautiful album, where are the latest songs that Camilo Sesto made for me. We wanted to do things that were new, with songs from other composers, rhythmic songs. It is an album that has a little bit of everything that Angela Carrasco has been and is in music and in the show,” he explains about the production released in 2023.
This Saturday, in the show titled “Hoy como Ayer,” the artist will share the stage in The Bronx for the first time with Fausto Rey, a Dominican vocalist, composer and guitarist with a career and style that ranges from romantic ballads, boleros, waltzes, salsa , meringues, bossa nova, blues and jazz.
“Fausto is a singer who gave a special note to our music, because he has the ability to sing in different genres. “I am going to enjoy the art of someone I have always liked again, with whom I will later join on stage,” he assures.
Carrasco, who is also preparing to begin an international tour, expressed her excitement at returning to the stage, as she assures that, like for any artist, seeing her audience live is the vitamin that has kept her going during her performances. more than 45 years of career.
“Singing live changes me, that’s when I bring out the best in me, the laughter, the movement, the emotion. I can’t wait to meet my Dominican audience again, especially, and for them to call me Angelita, I love that,” she concluded.
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