The Mar Abierto Festival features one of the great voices in music history, Luz Casal, as the third artist in a lineup that will include 7 singers performing 11 concerts in Gran Canaria, Tenerife, and Fuerteventura from May to October 2024. Last year, Luz Casal performed at the Mar Abierto Festival with concerts in Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, La Gomera, and La Palma, but she “wanted to complete” her tour of the Islands by visiting Tenerife and Fuerteventura this year as part of the “The Windows of my Soul Tour”, which has been a success in Spain and Europe over the past year. It has been the artist’s own determination to reach every corner of the Canary Islands, and the public responded by selling out all 4 concerts in 2023, a trend expected to continue with this year’s two concerts.
Luz Casal’s two concerts in the Canary Islands will take place on Friday, 17th May, at the Palace of Training and Conferences in Fuerteventura, starting at 9:00 pm, and the second one on Sunday, 19th May, at the Auditorium of Tenerife, starting at 8:30 pm. Tickets for both concerts will go on sale tomorrow, Thursday 22nd February, on the official festival website, and for the Fuerteventura concert, they can also be purchased at www.tickety.es. The ‘The Windows of my Soul’ tour continues the journey started last year through the most important stages in our country, where she presents her new songs while not forgetting her greatest hits. A must-see show for live music lovers.
Luz Casal is a craftsman of herself. From the beginning of her career, she has shown a continuous transformation while always remaining true to herself. In these years of tireless pursuit of new challenges, she has tried to delve deep, armed with curiosity to extract the hidden secrets of musical composition, to find true stories that can then be sung, to discover feelings that cannot be learned. Her songs are meticulously crafted, chiseled, polished, rewritten, and set to music before giving them the final breath and setting them free for everyone to listen to in their own way. When you observe the construction of her unusual professional trajectory, it seems like she has lived more than one life. Her work is a growing integrator that, despite the setbacks, maintains a unity and coherence driven by her rock essence and the personal situation of the singer over time and everything she has experienced.
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At each stage, from youth to maturity, she has managed to convey her evolution by adding her unmistakable interpretative signature to each work. From the nineties to today, her extensive repertoire full of hits makes Luz internationally recognized as one of the most important and representative female voices in Spanish music and culture.
And above and amidst everything, “Luz’s voice, her huge personality, her love for that music of which she is already a part of its history.” Luz sings “better and better, with a calmer, fuller voice, full of truth, as she likes to say.” Her voice “does not deceive, and neither does she, that’s why, sometimes, she surprises and disorients, but she is unmistakable and engrosses you.”
‘The Windows of my Soul’
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Luz Casal presents to us her most personal and autobiographical album of her career. The title, The Windows of my Soul, already announces that Luz presents herself without masks or artifices, frank and passionate as always and more anchored in reality than ever. Her undeniable status as a reference in Spanish music makes this return, after five years without releasing new songs, a significant event. But, far from being content with the legacy of four decades at the top, Luz explores new sounds and addresses current issues to offer a resounding and captivating album, twelve songs destined to expand the extensive list of the artist’s successes, one of the most unmistakable voices in the European music scene.
The album has been a source of hope. In it, Luz extends a hand in each song, offers exits in the midst of darkness, and exorcises her own and others’ ghosts. This was already hinted at by the first single, ‘Hola, qué tal’, a display of optimism, the result of more than two thousand calls she made during the lockdown to those who asked for it in search of encouragement and solace. Warm or fierce, always eclectic, Luz Casal delivers her most intimate and reflective album. Involved in the composition of almost all the songs, this time she has also been involved in the album’s production along with Paco Salazar and Paco Trinidad.
The concerts of the Mar Abierto Festival are supported by the Government of Spain through the Ministry of Industry and Tourism with the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan, the European Union through the Next Generation funds, Government of the Canary Islands, Tourism in the Canary Islands – Canarias Latitude of Life, Canarian Institute of Cultural Development, Gran Canaria Council – The Island of My Life, Tourism in Tenerife – Tenerife Awakens Emotions, Tenerife Council, the City Council of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria through the Department of Culture and Promotion of Las Palmas, Training and Conferences Centre, and the City Council of La Laguna. Produced by Mar Abierto Productions, collaborators include Tickety, Cervezas Victoria, Pepsi Cola, Ahembo, Naviera Armas, AC Hotel, Silken Atlántida Hotel, Sonopluss, TecnoSound, and Alkur.
