The true magic of Madrid lies in it’s art, which cultivates its culture. The art that is embedded in its architecture, paintings, fashion, music, and ultimately its people who create the art. Here among the street of Gran Vía, she was singing, for anyone and anybody who wanted to listen.
This is what we live for! We live for art, poetry, music, architecture (insert Dead Poets Society clip).. we live for poetic words, beautiful sunsets, inspiring music, neverending hugs and kisses, delicious food, and for the things where we can absolutely immerse and indulge ourselves in. Something that gives us the ability and the opportunity to close our eyes and melt as we dive into another dimension of our soul, another dimension, that we may not have even known existed. What a scrumptious and delightful feeling!
With this year, being so challenging, I often think, that we as a society have lost sight of those attributes (listed above) that inspire us so much. That give us life! Because without it, what is there?
What truly amazed me, is how seamlessly she just sat there with her piano, on one of the biggest, most crowded streets in the world and just sang. With a volume and confidence that was heard throughout. So often, you hear musicians claim that you can’t just sing, you have to tell a story… you have to give and feel a sentiment. The sentiment and emotion of her rendition of typical Spanish songs were heard and felt throughout. If you closed your eyes, without being aware of where you were or what you were listening to, you would immediately know that her music was from Spain. It was that identifiable. How beautiful when a culture is so deep and embedded within its roots and its people, that one can recognize it immediately.
If you believe that a song is a story and reversely, a story can be a song, then the story is that she despite any incertidumbre she might have had or had in the past, enfrentó her retos, picked a spot on Gran Vía for her speaker and her piano and began to sing for anyone and anybody that wanted to listen.