Transformation

Nothing, and no one, cries like the voice of Lia Kali: from within, from the soul, defending its history, its truth. Yesterday we were able to attend the celebration of the trip of a lifetime. That personal, artistic journey that has led her to be the Lia she is today. A transformation process that materialized in the first Red Bull Symphonic led by Lucas Vidal as director of a symphony orchestra who knew how to look inward, to bring light outward. Although, as Lia herself says in “Veneno”, sometimes it is not easy at all.

The tour began with what was presented as a search process and using “Against all odds”, the song that gives its name to their first LP, as the opening song. The journey began small, looking with the eyes of a child, putting her honesty as an artist on the table, and then little by little letting it expand as it wishes. It started with a first block at the origin with songs like “Me ha mal” or “Veintiocho”, with that wonderful presence of the organ as a closing, and merging them with other more current ones like “Con tu collar”, songs that you already imagine naked and with a support of strings from the first listen. “Family, tonight is going to be full of surprises. The first of them is someone I admire, both as a person and as an artist. An artist who is not afraid to change despite fame”this is how Lia introduced FERNANDOCOSTA who went out to the National Auditorium of Music in Madrid to give us one of the best moments of the meeting with that romance they had “I met you dancing” and “To endure”.

The night began to grow little by little, everything took on more body, became stronger. Lia Kali He was beginning to gain confidence, to feel freer in an environment that is not his usual one. And, at the end of the day, she had music on her side, the music that has saved her so many times, and her people as a support center. Elane showed up to sing “Falso,” to remind us that not everything can be about looking inward and that sometimes you have to lift your head a little to watch the rest of the world fall apart. After her, Lia wanted to remember the figure of her great-grandmother Lola, through a curious version of “And yet, I love you” by Concha Piquer. A figure whom he described as a strong woman in her family who had everything to have reached the top: “Sometimes if you don’t have the last name, you don’t get to where you need to go. This song is for my grandmother, my mother, my Lola, the women who have brought me here.”

The transformation continued its process, but first the origin knocked on the door again. The importance of gratitude to the past had to be highlighted and, to do so, he recovered “Rosas y Pistolas”, a 2021 song by Sibil.La3, his group prior to his solo career. That was when Lia wanted to talk about that time when she was playing on the street, when she went from “bareto to bareto” to sing for very little money and how she always had in her head that, even though it was difficult, the only thing she wanted to do in this life was dedicate herself to music, to sing. Embraced by the orchestra and Lucas Vidal himself. Lia watched as a protective white veil fell from the sky to cover her and thus make the definitive metamorphosis possible, meanwhile “It tastes like purity” sounded. After this, he set out to remember with “Niño” the vulnerability with which you face the love that comes to you at the age of fifteen and that destroys you inside. Then, we brought Antony Z on stage and sang “Worse than the police” with him, since Nanpa Básico couldn’t be with us that night.

The highlight of the night materialized when, in the midst of the energy bomb that is “Goddamn!”, with that entire orchestra rising to infinity, Lia looked at the sky and saw Kase.O descend from it, replacing Symba. New verses, new life for an already iconic theme in the artist’s career that served as a protest against unbridled cruelty, without measure, against the control of those threads of power that corrupt the world. “Many times I have felt in a well without light completely. But, there is always one thing that has gotten me out of there, music.” There were still many surprises to come before the Lia we know today would reach its final state of glory. And that was when SFDK took the stage with “Un cachito de luz”: “In life there are people who come and bring you that little piece of light that makes everything brighter”. The synths were visible through “La Cruz”, everything took on a new color and he wanted to highlight at that moment the deep affection and respect he feels towards Toni Anzis. So the one who called “the best producer in the world” He sat with her on the stairs starting “Volvernos a amor” to see how Salma came out from the other side of the stage and grabbed her hand tightly. Lia Kali to take it to the last phase of its journey.

While the organ made its way to “Me muero”, a song that the artist has in the “DON KBRN” that Eladio Carrión released last year, Lia was definitely bathed in red. The journey was clearly coming to an end and barefoot on stage she gave us her applauded “Chulx”. “Renacer” played as a summary of the central message of such a magical night and he crowned the event, as it could not be otherwise, with his beloved “Cantaré”: “This song is the most beautiful love song I have ever written and it is dedicated to music. I remember that my ex always got very jealous, screw him.”. The truth is that, stripping each issue, confronting them with natures that are not their own and emerging victorious from it is not an easy task. The beauty of all this is that at the end of the journey you realize that all the effort, the pain, the struggle that has gone through Lia Kali In these years it has been truly worth it. Because, above anything else, music has wanted to give you the keys to freedom to be the person and artist you want to be no matter what.