Jesse & Joy started on Saturday (August 16) their world tour of spite with a concert sold out At the Brooklyn Paramount theater in New York, where they delighted a multigenerational audience and mostly Latin with successes from “If you leave” and “I released me” to “Run!” and “sidereal space.”
The Mexican pop duo of the Huerta brothers – Joy in a brilliant three -piece orange assembly, Jesse in a white suit with red -shaped red details – made a tour of the most popular songs of his repertoire, that his faithful followers chanted from beginning to end to all lungs.
It was an exciting encounter with their fans in New York, where they did not appear since March 2022, and Jesse & Joy claimed to give them a special moment. In the middle of the concert, as a surprise, the Mariachi Adventurer NY group appeared on stage to accompany Joy in a rancher potpose that included “if you had not left” by Marco Antonio Solís, “Caray” by Juan Gabriel and the classic popularized by Vicente Fernández “return, return”.
Immediately, Joy set out to present his 2015 success “One more kiss”, that she and Jesse wrote in memory of her father, who died years ago. But in doing so, he had the broken voice how this song had helped them travel their moments of mourning, while others have accompanied them in pain by another type of separation.
“Many years ago, someone told us that he shared the same story. My brother and I gave him condolences, we told him, ‘we felt very much your loss.’ And I will never forget when this person told me: ‘My dad still lives, but they deported him,’ ‘Joy struggling to contain tears. “Since then my brother and I are very clear that where we have a microphone, we have a voice.”
“We will always be standing on our people’s side, but above all we will be standing on the right side of the story,” he continued in the midst of audience cheers. “We want you to know that we are with you, that we are part of you, and that as long [de] Somehow finds its place. ”
Jesse & Joy’s spite is followed by his most recent album What we needed to sayan eclectic set released in May with a diversity of representative sounds of its biker parenting (Mexico-United States), including pop, Mexican regional, author and soul song.
It also follows Joy’s nomination for the Tony 2025 award as co -author of Broadway musical songs Real Women Have Curves. The work takes place in eastern Los Angeles in 1987 and follows a daughter of immigrants who fights between her ambitions to go to university and the responsibility she feels to take care of her undocumented family – a topic that has charged today with the mass deportation campaign of the government of President Donald Trump.
“Something that has me very much about history is that all these issues that occurred in the 80s continue to occur today and you would think, ‘No, it is 2025, so many things have changed, it should be easier,’ and is not Spanish Billboard. “I have double citizenship, I feel very privileged, but it is very difficult for those who are going to live right now in this new change of government.”
Jesse & Joy show up on Sunday (August 17) at the Warner Theater in Washington, DC, and then in Cleveland; Toronto; and Fresno, California. With more than 40 concerts in the United States, Canada and Latin America, the spite of Tour will keep the duo in the ring until the beginning of 2026. For dates and tickets, click here.
