Catalan singer writer Joan M. Serrat interrupted his own concert in order to reply to a member of the public who demanded he sing in Catalan.

The singer stopped his performance, within the tour "Mediterraneo da Capo",  in Barcelona in order to reprimand the attitude of a member of the public.

The Catalan singer and songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat interrupted his last concert in Barcelona this Friday for a couple of minutes in order to recriminate the attitude of a spectator who yelled asking him to sing in Catalan,  taking advantage of a pause between song and song.    "Hey sing in Catalan, we're in Barcelona!" yelled the member of the public from his seat, at the Forum Auditorium.

Serrat, visibly upset and forceful, repeatedly asked the public not to applaud his own words:  "There is always someone in each concert who seems lost," he said at the beginning of his reply. 

Serrat recalled that "Mediterráneo" (Mediterranean)  is a record composed in 1971 with 10 songs, all in Castilian Spanish", and that his show consists of singing them one by one, and "in order", he recalled.

"I know perfectly well that I am in Barcelona, ​​I surely know this since before you knew it," he said forcefully.

"And surely before you, I am working to do things in this city, so I ask you to let me carry on with my show." Serrat concluded by saying that it was the first time; "after touring the world" that he had to put up with this type of recrimination.

After a long applause, he continued singing, as can be seen in a video uploaded to YouTube by Josep Maria Carafí.



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