The Tenerife singer Chago Melián with "Canciones del Mundo" inaugurated the concert program for the new season of the Casa-Museo del Timple in Teguise last Saturday at the Santo Domingo Convent.
An intimate and acoustic concert only with the accompaniment of two great professionals, the timple player Juan Pablo Pérez and the guitarist Marco del Castillo.
In the concert, Juan Pablo and Marco also had their space, two greats of music who played the timple and the guitar, leaving the audience speechless, performing "Cuatro Gigantes", a tribute to the great timple player and always remembered, José Antonio Ramos, and continued with Pájaro Campana and Isa de Lanzarote. Melián easily won the applause and affection of the public for his professionalism, his savoir-faire and dedication, giving his all, turning his concerts into a one-on-one, where there are no barriers between the artist and the public. When the moment of farewell arrived, they asked him to continue and accepting the request, he went down from the stage and joined his powerful voice with that of the public, all together they said goodbye to the concert singing two very popular rancheras such as Volver, Volver and El Rey.
The Councilor for Culture of the Teguise City Council, Nori Machín, and the Commissioner of the Casa-Museo del Timple, Benito Cabrera, presented him with the advertising poster as a souvenir.
Musical career
Chago Melián has not stopped since his participation in the Televisión Española program Gente Joven in 1979, in which he won the first prize in the Light Song category. He is currently one of the most recognized singers in the Canary Islands, which has taken him to various parts of the world and wherever he goes he is presented as Spanish, Canarian, Tenerife and leading, because of having been born in Punta del Hidalgo in Tenerife.
Melián has a total of seven published albums, each of them containing stories that are part of his personal experiences mixed with others of events that have occurred in the Canary Islands and the world in general. For this inaugural concert, the Tenerife native began with a song that has become a hymn, composed by the musician and timple player from Lanzarote, Benito Cabrera "Nube de Hielo", continuing with a wide repertoire with the most representative of Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Peru, Chile or Mexico, among others, winking at the Canary Islands, choosing the most representative such as the folía and isa and others with more popular rhythms such as Siete Rosas, Malagueña del Agua or Tenerife.
