Joaquín Sabina's life away from the stage: making one last album, returning to painting and continuing to love poetry

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RTVE 1 presented the special Joaquín Sabina: “Hello and goodbye”, dedicated to the concert that marked the end of the singer-songwriter's career, held on November 30, 2025 at the Movistar Arena in Madrid.

The public channel gave the opportunity to everyone who was not fortunate enough to attend the 'Hello and Goodbye' tour to see the man from Úbeda on stage for the last time; as well as reliving the show he witnessed firsthand at some point throughout last year (and the 71 dates he completed between Spain and America).

The show ended with Princessafter interpreting I deny everything, who stole the month of April from me?, 19 days and 500 nights, City fish either And they gave us tenamong many others. And, when the last final credits rolled, Televisión Española shared a recent interview by Carlos del Amor with Sabina himself, placing him just after his retirement.

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The 76-year-old musician He spoke about his recent retirement, that he never thought about the impact and repercussion he would have as an artist, of the shadow of his legend, of how badly he has coexisted (and coexists) with fame, his family, what people have managed to do with his songs and, above all, his future.

Craftsman more than artist

“My unplanned profession has made me happy thanks to two things. Oneto the public that has taken over my songs in a very moving way. And another, ten years ago I was not proud of my songs. I thought there was always room for improvement. Now, in the last two tours that I'm talking about, I have planned them in a way, by singing them, that I have fallen in love with them again. That is to say “I owe it to the public and the songs.”

“Artist has always seemed like a big word to me. I say craftsman, not out of false humility, but because it seems to me that “The craft of putting words together, looking for rhymes and chords on the guitar, is more like the craftsman than the artist.”.

Future plans

“I am living a few hours… and what are going to be a few days, a few months and a few years that I had never lived in my life; that is, “without an agenda, without commitments, without anything to do… Returning to dedicate time to my friends and my loves, who were very abandoned.”

“Between one last waltz, Against all oddsfive or six more songs that I have, and the ones I write, yes I plan to make a last album that has no title, no plan, or anything, but I will do it, yes. (…) I am still in a transitional moment of enjoying not having anything to do. I think I'm putting it off until after Christmas. When Christmas is over I do want to start writing, recording and, if possible, my latest hobby is painting and I also feel like it.”