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Amstel concert 2009: Amaral

An amazing concert which started with 20 minutes of delay because of the crowd. I think all people (citizens and tourists) didn’t want to miss such event. We (me and my girlfriend) came 20 minutes early and even that, the entrance of the Magdalena Palace was blocked by a human sea.

Well the point was that we were able to get in before that the band came out on the stage around 23h20 with a picture of a black cat on the screens.

Amaral is a spanish pop rock band created in 1997 by 2 persons – Eva Amaral (singer and composer) and Juan Aguirre (guitarist and composer).

During this year, they firmed a contract with Virgin EMI and their first album called simply “Amaral” was born one year after selling more than 80.000 copies.

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Amaral is a spanish pop rock band created in 1997 by 2 persons – Eva Amaral (singer and composer) and Juan Aguirre (guitarist and composer). During this year, they firmed a contract with Virgin EMI and their first album called simply “Amaral” was born one year after selling more than 80.000 copies.

But it is not before in 2000 when they started to make concert around Spain that people started to know them and from this moment, they became more and more famous until to get their first MTV European Award as best spanish artist with the album “estrella de mar” in 2002.

In 2003, their national fame became international when with the same album they distributed it in America and doing concerts in different countries as México, Argentina, Chile… They also participated in the creation of some soundtracks like the mexican movie called “efectos secundarios” with the song “si tú no vuelves” in 2006.

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In the same year, they distributed a special edition for Christmas called "Amaral Edición Especial Navidad", something like a best of but this edition included all their albums (amaral, una pequeña parte del mundo, estrella de mar, pájaros en la cabeza and the DVD el comienzo del big bang).

During the concert, they performed almost all their best songs mixing from their old albums and the new one. Everybody was singing at each one without missing a lyric !!! Hands up and clapping, the ambiance was magic which lasted more than 2h. Around 00h40, they left the stage to come back few minutes later after that the crowd was screaming “otra, otra, otra” and “oeeee, oeoeoe, oeee, oeee” with a picture of a red dragon on the screens to continue the show.

In 2008, their song “llegará la tormenta” promoted the international Expo Zaragoza 2008 which is a version of Bob Dylan song (a hard rain’s a gonna fall) and in may 27 of the same year, their 5th album “gato negro, dragón rojo” came out in the market selling more than 100.000 copies in one week only !!!

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This album placed them directly as number 1 in the chart and they got their first platinum record. Also they won their 2nd MTV Europe Music Award as best spanish artist. Not only considered as the best spanish band of this century, they participate actively in some charity events and the best example, it is this concert performed yesterday which ended around 1h20 AM and that I share with you some pictures and a video on this page.

Winning more than 18 awards since the beginning and doing some collaboration with famous artists as Moby (escapar), Celtas Cortos (20 de abril), Amaro Ferreiro (algunas veces)…, they are working right now on their new album meanwhile they are preparing a special edition for the end of this year or the beginning of 2010 which will include a cd and a dvd of their last album (something not to miss).

July 28, 2009