“It is fortunate that after so many years I continue my career against all odds,” says Raphael in an interview with EFE, who plans to return to the studio this year to record a new album dedicated to Mexico.
On the stage of the bullring in Murcia, where this weekend he began the Spanish tour of ‘Raphaelísimo’ after a tour of America, which will resume in October in Argentina, Chile, Peru and Colombia, Raphael reflects on the fortune he feels to keep intact his passion for his work after so many decades of career, and says: “The day I get bored I’ll stay home.
“Fortunately, it is fortunate that I still have the illusion of singing, that I continue after so many years with my career against all odds, and I am delighted to do it,” says a smiling singer who is motivated by “fighting every day to do things well.”
Although he does not want to go into details, he says he will record a new tribute to Mexican music this year, about which he already has “some ideas”, as he assures. “I already have three or four albums about Mexico and I’m going to make a new one,” the singer, who released ‘Ayer… Aún’ in December 2024, told EFE. Aún’ and will thus keep his commitment to the public to record an album every two years.
On the hegemony of Spanish-language music and the Bad Bunny phenomenon, he is excited: “I’m happy for him, I love him, he’s so beastly…”, and he is grateful for the support to Spanish-speaking creators and the recognition he received this month in Puerto Rico, with the Key to the City of San Juan for his more than 60 years of artistic career and his legacy to the music industry.
The fact that he sings for fans of four generations, as he explains to EFE, does not influence his choice of repertoire for his concerts, as he stresses, because all the songs he performs on stage are “very popular, have been very popular and have been recorded in very fruitful times in records”.
He asks the public attending ‘Raphaelísimo’ to have fun, “to have a good time and to enjoy this year as much as they have always done”, a recommendation that comes from a methodical and rigorous man with the work, as he shows, who “fights every day to do things well”.
He is happy with the results of the tour that took him between April and May through Mexico, New York, Washington and Miami, with sold-out concerts and endless shows of support, which, he says, make him continue working with the same enthusiasm as when he started. “When I get bored, I’ll stay at home, where it’s impossible to get bored,” he confesses with a laugh.
He also says that he has loved the series ‘Aquel’, which will be released by Netflix in September dedicated to his life and work, with Javier Morgade and Carlos Santos. “I like how it is made, how it is interpreted, the roles” that will appear, although he believes that his followers will not find anything about Raphael that they do not know. “My life is known by almost everyone,” he admits to EFE with a chuckle.
The ‘Raphaelísimo’ tour will continue on May 30 in Albacete, June 6 in Castellón, Seville (June 18) and Uclés (Cuenca, June 16), after which it will return to America before closing 2026 on December 19 in Madrid, where it will perform at the Movistar Arena, reported Agencia EFE.
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