"You're at your best," Leiva sings in the first verse of Under pressureThe song with which he opened the concert at the Palau Sant Jordi on Saturday, for which all 17,000 tickets had been sold out for months. The Madrid-born musician is also at his peak and has been able to... an album like Giant (2025)a kind of Brutal honesty Without the toxic catastrophes of Andrés Calamaro, but certainly with doubts, losses, and emotional and professional insecurities that fuel a multitude of songs. Even so, despite years on the road, he was nervous before his first show at the Palau Sant Jordi. "What a privilege to be here, what a crazy thing to do. It's amazing. I haven't slept, I have diarrhea because of what's going to happen today, and I'm so excited," he said after 25 minutes of the concert.

"When I come to Barcelona, I like to walk around here, near the sea," says musician Leiva (Madrid, 1980), looking out over the Parc del Fòrum from the heights of the AC Barcelona Forum Hotel. He's escaping the frenzy of the city center and would like to escape some promotional obligations. "After a year and a half quietly at home, all this talking to the press is an abrupt process, all this talking to the press," he adds. However, he doesn't shy away from any questions about the album. Giant (Sony, 2025) and the tour that will take him to the Palau Sant Jordi on November 8.