The years go by “and those that exist have changed”, as their own lyrics say. Today, 25 years have passed since April 20, 1990 of Celtas Cortos. And to celebrate they have made a video to find out what it would be like this topic in WhatsApp times. Times change, however what does not change is the feeling and emotion that this song conveys.
Musical birthday: 25 years of ’20 April ’90
“April 20, 90, hello, flat, how are you?”. Thus began what is perhaps the best known of Celtas Cortos’ songs, and one of the mythical themes of Spanish pop in the nineties and an essential one at parties. Today that theme is exactly two decades old.
This song didn’t start playing in 1990, but a year later, inside the album ‘Cuéntame un cuento’, the leader of Celtic Shorts, Jesus Cifuentes, had composed it some time before.
«I was assigned as a social worker at an institute in El Tiemblo (Ávila). In that year that I spent extradited there, I benefited from certain melancholic environments and that is where the song came from, “recalls the musician.
25th year of April 20 of Celtas Cortos
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The song, which is nothing more than a melancholic letter to an old friend, “recounts a fictional situation that has later become, as it were, in reality, a nightmare,” she says.
Although Cifuentes claims not to have “the measuring stick” the popularity of a song, he acknowledges that April 20 is “lwhat else has reached peopleBecause things have happened to them on that date, because they have been reflected in it ».
Celtas Cortos Tour in 2015
Celtas Cortos continue to present their new album ‘Contratiempos’ with a great tour that is taking them everywhere. A unique tour that combines the party, which ‘Los Celtas’ always offer in their shows, with the subtlety and elegance that symphonic arrangements add to their songs.
April 23rd. VILLALAR DE LOS COMUNEROS (VALLADOLID)
April 24. VALL D ’UXO (CASTELLON)
May 2. EL TIEMBLO (AVILA)
15 th of May. MIRANDA DE EBRO (BURGOS).
May 16. PARC CHATEAU LAAS (FRANCE)
may 23. TUDELA (NAVARRA).
June 6th. POZOBLANCO (CORDOBA)
June 20th. GANDIA (VALENCIA)
June 23. ALCOBENDAS (MADRID)
June 27th. BURGOS
July 2nd. VALLADOLID
3rd of July. HENDAYA (FRANCE)
July 4th. MALAGA
July 11. EL TIEMBLO (AVILA)
12th of July. SANTURCE (VIZCAYA)
July 13. TERUEL
July 17th. NAVAS DE SAN JUAN (JAEN)
July 23th. COBISAS (TOLEDO)
July 31st. PORRERES (MALLORCA)
August 1. MERIDA (BADAJOZ)
August 8. EL ESPINAR (SEGOVIA)
August 9. PUEBLA DE GUZMAN (HUELVA)
August 15th. CALATAYUD (ZARAGOZA)
August 16th. NAVIA (ASTURIAS)
August 21. ROQUETAS DEL MAR (ALMERIA)
September 7th. SANTA COLOMA (BARCELONA)
September, 10th. ALCAÑIZ (TERUEL)
11 of September. FUENTIDUEÑA DEL TAJO (MADRID)
September 12. COLATARAO (ZARAGOZA)
September 26. LA OROTAVA (TENERIFE)
CELTAS CORTOS are running a contest through their page to find a symphonic band to accompany them in an exclusive concert that the group will give at the Palacio de Vistalegre (Madrid). You can see more information in this link.
Video: 25 years from April 20, 90 whatsapp version
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