A NIGHTMARE IN THE SHOW
Recently I woke up very restless after dreaming a horrible nightmare that I felt like it was real. I
was a singer and that night I had a very important show, in fact the place was overcrowd the
album our band released was successful and even the critic was fantastic and thanks of that all
the tickets were sold out.
The place where we were going to play was the city where we are from, yet we were very
quiet owing to in the previous concerts there wasn’t any incident. We started very high, with
the album’s best song and the result of that was the public was very excited so we were very
glad and we wanted to give them a special gift and we decided to improvise a song, a version
of the city hymn and while the fans were waiting for I started the song suddenly my voice
didn’t work. I tried once again, but I was without voice, I could neither speak.
Although in that moment I felt sink because I was playing in my city full of people and with my
friends I tried to get a solution, so I caught my guitar, I played the hymn and with my face I
invited to the fans to sing it and they did it. In that moment I felt more relax and in
consequence I could sing with them.
Finally, I woke up where restless and wet but I was happy because I sang the fatidic hymn.
JOSÉ RAMÓN SÁNCHEZ-FORTÚN HERMOSILLA