Everyone keeps talking about Leiva's “tribute of the century” to Robe Iniesta in the 'RTVE Summary of the Year'

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When Leiva He expressed a few weeks ago that he was going to show his condolences for the death of Robe Iniesta “privately”, we did not imagine that, to say goodbye to his friend and teacher, and to say goodbye to 2025, he was going to pay him such a heartfelt tribute in the form of a song like the one we saw last New Year's Eve.

The architect of Giant it was put under the direction of Fernando León de Aranoa to be part of the already traditional RTVE Year in Review, directed and scripted by Carlos del Amor.

The Madrid singer-songwriter was in charge of closing the special that reviews the highlights of the last 12 months – on a national, international, political, social, sporting and cultural level – by covering one of the most emblematic songs of the former leader of Extremoduro: The bird man.

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Robe's death was one of the saddest news that 2025 left us, but we did not expect a nicer tribute from anyone other than Leiva. And that is something that people still remember on social networks, even having already lived through two days of 2026.

On Because there is nothing more heartbreaking and emotional than: “And I looked in the mirror, and my reflection was not there, I must have disappeared.”

Without a doubt, a memory that is captured in the shot where you can see an empty microphone in the middle of the stage of the Comedy Theater in Madrid.

He Summary of the Year was completed with the interventions of Juan Diego Botto, Álvaro Morte, Paco León, Blanca Suárez, Alba Flores, Richard Gere, Luis Zahera, María Pérez García or Noah Higónwho talked about 'Trumpism', the death of the Pope, the famous blackout, organ donation, the migration crisis, the genocide in Gaza, the anniversary of DANA or the fires that besieged Spain in August, among other topics that have marked the news.

All of this, framed in a fictional story that places us in a futuristic store (a century from now) run by Javier Cámara, where Petra Martínez goes in search of memories to remember what happened the year she was born.

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