Sílvia Pérez Cruz and Salvador Sobral

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Sílvia Pérez Cruz and Salvador Sobral will join forces in 2025 in an unprecedented musical project, which promises to be one of the most significant collaborations in contemporary Iberian music. On stage, the two artists will present a new album that brings together songs written especially for the occasion by composers close to both, such as Jorge Drexler, Luísa Sobral, Dora Morelenbaum, Lau Noah, Marco Mezquida and Javier Galiana de la Rosa, among others. The stage show 's repertoire also includes originals by Sílvia and Salvador.

The album was born from a deep friendship and mutual admiration, built over several years. Both musicians share an emotionally honest approach and a rare artistic sensibility, based on the celebration of the voice as an instrument of communion. Sílvia describes Salvador as a singer capable of ‘embracing’ the voices he sings with: ‘When he sings with another voice, he has the gift of embracing it and making it sound better’ she ensures. Salvador, in turn, says that hearing Sílvia for the first time was like discovering the origin of the song: ‘A new and, at the same time, ancestral world opened up.’ His voice, he says, accompanied him in moments of illness, hope, sadness and ecstasy. Over time, admiration turned into friendship, and friendship turned into shared music. ‘When we finally sang together,’ says Salvador, ‘all these emotions from the past came out in our voices, fused together. They say you shouldn’t meet your heroes — but no one said you shouldn’t share the stage with them.’