Since Cadena Dial chose Tenerife in 2007 to celebrate its awards ceremony, the city has once a year become the epicenter of music in Spanish. After the stoppage caused by the pandemic, the Fairgrounds returned yesterday to be filled with the happiest chords.
The music in Spanish sang yesterday to send all its support to the palm population. The Dial Awards ceremony was the place chosen by the radio station to premiere the song Virgen de las Nieves, by Melendi, who however could not act to premiere this song since she tested positive for Covid that same day. Even so, in the Fairgrounds of Santa Cruz de Tenerife the chords of this theme sounded that only on the first day since its launch it achieved almost 200,000 visits on YouTube. La Palma is crying with tears of fire, dancing with the soul of uncertainty and dressed in fear is heard in the song whose proceeds will go entirely to those affected by the La Palma volcano, who will receive aid through the Canary Foundation Taburiente Especial (Funcataes). Feelings of pain, but also of hope, come together in the song that sounded for the first time in Tenerife where the 25th anniversary of the Dial Awards was celebrated.
The master of ceremonies, the Tenerife Ana Guerra, was in charge of opening the night’s performances with a medley of the most iconic songs from the invited artists. My big night was the first song that sounded in honor of Raphael, who last night received the Lifetime Achievement Award, along with Rosario. Álvaro Soler’s Magic was the prelude to a night of reunions at the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Fairgrounds, in a gala that started after eight thirty in the afternoon.
The Canary Islands have been hosting these awards since 2007 and yesterday more than thirty artists gathered to celebrate the festival of music in Spanish “in paradise”, as stated by Larrodera at the beginning of the solidarity evening, since part of the proceeds of the proceeds will now go to the projects of the IPNA-CSIC, the CSIC center located in Tenerife and a worldwide benchmark for sustainable development in oceanic islands.
Antonio Orozco, who celebrated his birthday yesterday, was the first to receive his Dial Award. «I want to dedicate this award to the more than seven thousand people evacuated and who have lost their homes on La Palma. He goes to the Canary Islands and today music is everyone’s balsam », said the singer in the middle of a roar of applause from the public. Next, it was Vanesa Martín’s turn who stated that “music should be empathetic and should fill us with flight and horizons” before singing Y volar.
Manuel Martos was in charge of delivering the Lifetime Achievement Award to his father, Raphael. The singer from Jaén stood up to all the public of the Fairgrounds and received a long ovation. “Dear audience, thank you, and it’s been 60 years now, for making me happy by dedicating myself to this profession that fulfills me as much as you do,” thanked the singer before performing I forgot to live, one of his latest releases. Ana Guerra then dared to share the stage with the artist, together with whom she interpreted some verses of Say what they say.
Colombian Carlos Vives received, from afar, his Dial Award and thanked through a video for this recognition since he had other professional commitments: “I hope to see you soon, my people from the Canary Islands.” The Muñoz brothers, or what is the same, Estopa, were the next to get on stage to interpret The Last Line and deliver their Dial Award to Rozalén, from Albacete, who interpreted El paso del tiempo.
David DeMaría was another of the musicians who yesterday received a Dial Award, just the year in which he celebrates a quarter of a century in the world of music, just like these awards. On the contrary, Sergio Dalma did not receive any recognition yesterday because, as the organization stated, he has already received all possible awards throughout his long career, and has been present in practically each of the 25 editions of the Dial Awards. He came yesterday to celebrate “the return of live music” and to give back to the public all the affection that he has received during the hardest of confinement. Luis Fonsi was also another of the guests at the gala and highlighted his love for the Canary Islands, the territory that he discovered years ago and that allowed him to make the leap to the Peninsula and the rest of Europe. “It is not my first time in the Canary Islands and it will surely not be the last,” ventured the Puerto Rican, who celebrated being able to share the stage with real friends like David Bisbal, who also received a Dial Award during the musical evening.
Many were the artists who in March 2020 had to stay ashore on the Peninsula before traveling to the Canary Islands to attend the Dial Awards gala. For this reason, yesterday’s was a doubly special date for many, not only because this has become the festival of music in Spanish but also because it seems that with last night’s evening normality is recovered a little more after the most crude of the health crisis. “After a year and eight months, it was necessary to see each other again”, commented the young people of Dvicio before going on stage to interpret one of their best-known songs.
