Gracie Abrams gives her all to her fans on the first day of Cruïlla.

Barcelona[Singer Gracie Abrams did not allow photojournalists to photograph her concert, and therefore the images in this report are atmospheric scenes.]

Gracie Abrams opened the Cruïlla festival this Wednesday without allowing professional photographers to take photos of the concert. She was as generous as she was with the media as she was with her fans. During the hour and ten minutes that the show lasted, she took cell phones from her fans to take selfies and even agreed to take a photo with a Polaroid camera. The recipients of these photos will have an unforgettable memory of an evening in which Gracie Abrams was so attentive to her audience that it felt like an evening with friends.

"I recognize some faces from other concerts we've done, before this happened." all", Abrams said just as the concert began. This all what he was referring to was his rise to fame, which has happened in record time and has led him to perform a few weeks ago at Glastonbury, where, by the way, photos of the concert were available. Dressed in a long evening dress and barefoot, the American performed her intimate repertoire that began with Risk, one of the hits from his latest album, The secret of usIn the front rows, many girls were crying and looking at her with devotion. Further inside, it was easy to see that the singer had made an impact on the younger female audience: many girls, accompanied by their mothers, recited the lyrics as if they were the pages of a diary filled with experiences they hadn't yet had time to experience. As soon as the concert began, shouts of "beautiful" and "queen" could be heard as she strolled around the stage with her guitar and a warm smile.

Abrams did not spare his fans – the audience was mostly female – any of his achievements, such as And miss you, I'm sorry and its unofficial sequel I love you, I'm sorry, either Where do we go now. She played the guitar, the piano, and walked ethereally like a nymph in the woods, but above all, she spoke to her fans. "Sometimes magic is tangible, and that's how it is," she assured. She also resorted to clichés and confessed that she had spent a wonderful day in Barcelona "drinking wine and eating ham." "I wish I could stay here for more days," she said. The fans responded to her words by giving her a bouquet of daisies and a banner covered in signatures, which she placed on the same piano from which she played some of the most emotional songs of the night.

But Abrams' love exceeded her audience. At one point during the night, the singer took the opportunity to praise the concert of the Norwegian singer Girl in Red, who had performed on the same stage a couple of hours earlier. The recognition went beyond words; she dedicated Two people, the first piece played on the piano.

For the final stretch of the concert, Abrams abandoned her more intimate version and returned to the format in which she shines most: that of the energetic singer-songwriter with a guitar in her hands. This is how she performed the last two, and most celebrated, songs of the night, That's so true and Close to you, a song that the audience danced to with euphoria despite not being a song that exactly invites them to it.