October 2, 2026
Cuban troubadour Silvio Rodríguez drew thousands of fans to Murcia’s Plaza de Toros on October 1, 2026, for a Murcia ON concert on his Spain 2026 tour. Murcia Plaza’s next-day review described a devoted crowd that sang along to anthems such as Ojalá and Unicornio and closed with the ballad Te molesta mi amor.
The 79-year-old was backed by his regular band: Niurka González (flute and clarinet), Malva Rodríguez (vocals and keyboards), Jorge Aragón (piano), Rachid López (guitar), Maykel Elizarde (tres), Jorge Reyes (double bass), Emilio Vega (vibraphone) and Oliver Valdés (drums and percussion). The set included Sueño con serpientes, Escaramujo, El necio, Viene la cosa and Luis Eduardo Aute’s La belleza. He also read a José Martí passage and Luis Rogelio Nogueras’s poem Halt!, and said a new album would arrive “I think soon.”
The Murcia stop, previewed by La Opinión de Murcia, is the penultimate date after Barcelona, Zaragoza, Bilbao, Valencia, A Coruña and Seville. The tour ends October 4 at Madrid’s Movistar Arena.
Troubadour, Producer, Poet, Musician, Composer, Arts
===BODY=== He was born in San Antonio de los Baños, province of La Habana, Cuba. His father was Dagoberto Rodríguez Ortega, from Vereda Nueva who as a child was an agricultural worker; during World War II he cut diamonds and later was an upholsterer and cabinetmaker. His mother is Argelia Domínguez León, daughter of a family of 11 siblings, some of them workers in the tobacco industry and almost all with musical vocation.
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