Quevedo does not grow, but he becomes great

Quevedo may lack expressiveness on stage or originality in the new reggaeton tracks he packaged, way back in 2024, into the album Buenas noches . These are unimportant details as long as he has the support of an audience as devoted as the one gathered last night in a packed Palau Sant Jordi, a feat he will repeat tonight. The Canary Islander may not have grown as a musician in that time, but at just 23 years old, there's no doubt he's become even bigger.

Pedro Luis Domínguez Quevedo, who debuted in Barcelona two years ago with two nights at the Sant Jordi Club, has dedicated 2025 to certifying his rise to the major leagues of music with all the hallmarks of a major performance. It has been the flip side of the year off he took after reaching the top with the album Donde quiero estar and, above all, with Quédate, which resonated for months across half the planet with its urban music and football anthem-like quality.

Shy on and off stage, Quevedo, who during his previous stint in Barcelona sported a baggy tracksuit and a good-natured smile, returned looking much more like the reggaeton stars with whom he shares his style and sound: a polished new look with a plaid blazer and pleated pants, a gym-worthy body, intricate camera shots, and lyrics that were just as, if not more, explicit, in the opposite direction to the pace set by artists like Bad Bunny. That's what he offered last night during two hours of perreo, enough time to review a career where the handicap is having triumphed on the first try and avoiding making blockbuster hits with each album.

Everything went in Quevedo's favor from the moment he walked onto the stage, across a red carpet flanked by a line of fans, to perform the opening lines of "Kassandra" and "Duro ," stories of his new life as a long-suffering star. These songs were celebrated by the more than 17,000 attendees gathered around the stage, set up in the center of the venue for the occasion: A long horizontal strip, with the corresponding screens installed above it, was Quevedo's workspace, which he filled without the support of musicians or even a stage set. The only support was an eight-member dance troupe, generally dancing aside from the star, who, for his part, basically dedicated himself to moving from one end of the stage to the other without much fuss, microphones in his right and left hands providing the artist's only gestures.

The songs from the new album took center stage in the first part of the concert, giving the young audience—many of them wearing the Las Palmas shirt as the artist's official uniform—a chance to show off their knowledge of the scene by singing along to lyrics like "Your parents don't want to hear my name / When they fall asleep, I'm going to enter from behind / And once I'm inside, I'm going to enter you from behind" from the song " Por atrás ." Explicit songs got the devoted fans dancing from the very first moment, mobile phones in hand, turning the night into one big karaoke.

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Wearing a black sleeveless T-shirt, now free of the blazer he wore when he came on stage, Quevedo continued the evening with a burst of success by recalling his first steps with youthful images, opening the trap Ahora y siempre ("I'm going to charge for the collabs if things continue like this/Hey, like Bad Bunny, at my peak"), to give away the tender reggaeton of Dame , from Donde quiero estar , which he let the audience sing along to despite the fact that his voice was dubbed on the recording. Also playing were Sin señal and Playa del inglés , one of the most chanted songs along with "Punto G" and the Bizarrap session, which inevitably concluded the performance. Here, the musician was seen more relaxed and seeking the complicity of the audience, with the collaboration of fellow Canary Islander Lucho RK in Guaya and Preñá . The response of the fans was, from the first moment, a chorus of voices in unison that at times competed in decibels with the acoustics of the concert.

The revs dropped, the stands filled with cell phone lights, and Que asco de todo (That's disgusting) sounded, a self-critical aftertaste with that verse that says "knowing that if it comes from my chest it won't be played on the radio," sung by the Canary Islander, seated in a melancholic pose. A brief stop before entering the final part of the concert, completing the review of Buenas noches (Good Night) with experiments like Noemú (pop with autotune), and the highlights of the album, such as the pop singer Gran Vía (a collaboration with Aitana), or Tuchet ( Take Your Mouth), while the audience let out Quédate de la boca (Whatever) a wish granted to close the night for Quevedo, who as long as he holds onto this silver bullet from Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52 will have new opportunities to become bigger and grow.