Pancho Céspedes takes his Spain tour to Madrid and Barcelona after Latin Grammy Excellence Award

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October 3, 2026

Cuban singer-songwriter Francisco “Pancho” Céspedes performs on October 2, 2026, at Madrid’s Teatro Capitol Gran Vía and on October 3 at Barcelona’s Teatre Apolo — key stops on his September–October Spain tour, according to Diario de Cuba and both theaters’ calendars.

The run follows news that Céspedes will receive the 2026 Latin Grammy Musical Excellence Award, to be presented November 9 in Las Vegas. Before Madrid, he sold out two nights at Sala Garbos in Gran Canaria (September 26–27) and shared a Málaga bill on September 18 with Enrique Ramil and José Luis Jaén in the show 3 de Corazones.

“My international career started here, with Vida loca,” Céspedes told Diario de Cuba about his bond with Spanish audiences. Born in Santa Clara in 1957 and based in Mexico since 1992, the bolero and ballad writer said he wants to “bring out the artist I have inside” in these roughly 100-minute intimate concerts.

Fuente: Diario de Cuba; Teatro Capitol Gran Vía; Teatre Apolo Barcelona

Francisco Fabián Céspedes Rodríguez

Singer, Musician, Composer

Pancho Céspedes knew from a very young age that he had to abandon his medical career to focus on what really made his blood flow: music. The rhythm and all the romanticism he carried within had to flow somehow, and what better way to show his experiences than through his songs. For this reason, for several years, he was part of some Cuban groups such as Pucho López's group (with which he visited Spain for the first time in the early 1990s) and the Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna, a group with which he sang songs both of his own authorship and "feeling" — a music movement that emerged in Cuba, which is a mixture of bolero with jazz and with which they performed throughout his country — to finally arrive in Mexico, where he decides to settle and begin a career in music.