There are more than six hundred the music professionals who have played at some point in the more than one hundred kilometers of suburban Barcelona. Once they have met ten years of the regulation of the musical performances by the musicians Association of the street and the Metro and the City Hall, we know three of these artists engaged on a daily basis to put music to the movement of travellers.

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Some started playing in the subway to overcome his stage fright and others only to survive as musicians in the Catalan capital. Most, however, continues to make it because you like the contact with people and feel appreciated by thousands of travelers passing daily through some time in the more than one hundred kilometers from Barcelonas underground metro.

Once they have met already ten years of the project “Musicians of the metro”, which normativizó the music professionals access to certain points of the network with suitability tests, have already been more than six hundred accredited professionals who have played at some of the 34 points.

Playing in the subway, work and passion

It is the case of Alejandro Salas and his wife, who arrived in the city from his native Venezuela with their children looking for a place where to live music. After four years playing in the subway and combining it with concerts in bars with his band, ACE group and other works of music in schools teachers, recognized that “always glad come to the subway and playing a few hours”.

Thus reiterates it Ruth Abela, a young Malta who fell in love with Barcelona and decided to stay. Professional music in his country, where played the saxophone, clarinet, guitar and piano in various big bands, since it touches on the subway has discovered his passion for singing.

“before not me he dared and now I like more singing because I am better,” he explains. Both likes that even says not to conceive it as a job.

For its part, though before it was an electrical engineer, Ukrainian Stanislav Voytsakhovskyy has also made music his work since that it plays Barcelona underground: “He was composing songs but not had played never in public until I started on the subway,” says.

Cheerful atmosphere in the corridors

Aside from having a space for promotion and dissemination both their music and their cultures of origin, these creators also contribute with their own songs or versions, to put a note of joy to the displacement of Barcelona.

And it is that despite being in movement, travellers are very grateful, ensure the three musicians. Some economically collaborate with some coins, others stop to listen and some even the. There is no doubt that in the in that they match the majority of passengers is in the smile of gratitude that spend it.

“everybody has things to do but there is always a time for the meeting,” says Stanis, who even adapts the melodies of his compositions to the rhythmic gait of travellers. Do Alexander and his wife, his repertoire that suit all musical styles to satisfy all kinds of public.

For its part, Ruth takes his job as a channel of expression of the songs she writes without thinking about the style, only as “therapy”.

Ten years after the Association of street musicians and the Metro and the City Hall took the decision to regulate the performances to ensure quality and to convert the subway platform for creators, formula has established itself successfully.

A very democratic functioning, every two weeks is managed with shifts of the musicians in a manner such that everyone has the opportunity to play at a central point and with more frequency step.

Possibly the subway not carried these professionals of the music to fame but that allows them to live doing what they like, and thus also the corridors of the suburban become small improvised concerts.

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