Rumba and the Llobregat Delta permeate Alfred García's new album (El Prat de Llobregat, 1997). I love you if I love you (Música Global, 2025), and it's the first album by the musician from Prat de Llobregat in which the majority of the songs are in Catalan.

It was the summer of 1989 when Francisco Casavella, a major novelist and a true rumba fan, explained how difficult it was for a music "that has been forgotten for years, marginalised by stupid clichés and even more stupid snobbery, to reap the desired fruits in an instant." Francis, as his friends called him, spoke of Catalan rumba –"the rumba that knocks you down"–, and in addition to possessing the best-tuned pen in the city, he seemed to have the gift of predicting the future. The writer did not suspect that the entire world would listen to that music just three years after that statement. It is estimated that some 3.2 billion people connected at some point with the closing ceremony of the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992. And as is well known, the best was when the rumba sounded from the stadium's loudspeakers and the stage almost fell. It was so heavy and so emotional.