"The power of music is to unite people," claimed Madonna in her historic first performance in the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest.
It was minutes before a performance in which he revived "Like a prayer", the single that revolutionized the world 30 years ago thanks to an incendiary video clip in which he kissed a black Jesus Christ, a moment that, however, he has not recovered this time. .
A follower of the Kabbalah (in the Jewish tradition, a system of mystical and allegorical interpretation of the Biblical), perhaps the diva has preferred to be modest in her "show" at Expo Tel Aviv, just 70 kilometers from Jerusalem, Bethlehem and in general from almost every corner of the Holy Land.
At the end of the competition performances, the diva took the stage to begin a 9-minute "show" that began with the reinterpretation of her aforementioned classic, in the key of an ecclesiastical choir and together with 30 acolytes of her own cult who, dressed in tunics, covered her on a large staircase.
Then came the live premiere of his most recent song, the Jamaican dancehall "Future", in which he reflects on the world we live in, this time with his dance troupe dressed in gas masks.
This is the fourth song she has released from what will be her next album release, "Madame stellar performances, one two weeks ago at the Billboard Awards with Maluma, and this one at Eurovision.
The vaunted participation in the European Song Festival has been the result of a long chain of rumors and denials since last February it was announced that it would be financed by the Canadian-Israeli billionaire, Sylvan Adams, the same man who brought the Giro d'Italia to Israel.
Once that agreement was closed, which was estimated at one million dollars (890.973 euros), another one related to the European Broadcasting Union and the transmission rights of one of the two songs that was to be performed at the gala was still pending, « Like a prayer.
Even so, last Tuesday the star arrived in Tel Aviv after flying with an entourage of about a hundred people. Some information then indicated that when he went to rehearsal for her performance on Thursday, he found the door of the venue closed by order of the event's executive supervisor, Jon Ola Sand.
Finally, he gave the go-ahead for Madonna to enter the venue, after her team threatened to cancel the performance, which was not officially confirmed until the night of that day and which has become one of the most anticipated moments of this event. edition.
«They are all champions, getting here is not easy, first because they have a dream to fight for. In my opinion, that makes them winners, regardless of what happens," said the singer in words expressly addressed to the 26 participants in the final. EFE and Aurora