San Juan, December 13 (EFE). – Colombian pop band Morat put the finishing touches to their 2025 “Pending Business” tour this Saturday with their debut at the Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in Puerto Rico, colloquially called “El Choli,” after touring several Latin American countries.
“It’s our second time in Puerto Rico and the second time we’re playing in a place as emblematic as Choli. It’s crazy, it’s an honor and it’s a gift that they give us tonight that we really appreciate and that we will keep forever,” said Juan Pablo Isaza, one of the group’s singers.
Isaza, Juan Pablo Villamil and the brothers Simón and Martín Vargas started their first concert in the most important venue of the Caribbean archipelago with “Faltas tú”, one of the most listened to songs from their latest album, and with one of their most famous songs, “How dare you”, with which the audience went crazy.
“Puerto Rico, how hard it is to fall in love with someone who is not ready to fall in love, because I think we can agree on one thing tonight and that is that forgetting is difficult but possible. Missing is difficult but it is achieved. However, being second gear is a very complicated thing,” confessed the singer before introducing “Segundos Platos”.
During the performance, a packed hall with mobile flashlights intoned at the top of their lungs: “There is love at first sight,” as the group says in their well-known song “Where are we going.”
For his part, Villamil pointed out that tonight is “very important” for them because they are playing in Puerto Rico, because it is the last concert of the year and because today is their fourteenth band anniversary.
“14 years ago we started playing, 14 years ago we started composing our songs, 14 years ago we started dreaming and in those 14 years there were many people who helped us and what would have happened to us without them,” explained the singer and guitarist.
After playing “In case I don’t see you again,” a highlight of the show was when the group brought an engaged couple onto the stage, who asked Juan Pablo Isaza to play “Learning to love you” along the keys of his piano, a romantic moment that moved the audience.
The performers of “Two Thousand Somethings” or “When Nobody Sees” made a coliseum vibrate and sang all their songs.
Simón Vargas, with his charismatic movements, strummed his bass to the rhythm of the chords of “Amor con Ice” that made his followers dance, and exclaimed euphorically: “I don’t believe you at all and although I missed you, it’s been so long that I’ve forgotten you.”
After two hours of show in which the quartet moved the audience with songs such as “My Luck”, “Get Out Alive” or “Turn Around”, the people of Bogotá crowned the concert by making the audience jump with one of their most famous songs, “Kisses in War”, so that this “place collapses”.
On this tour, the quartet traveled to several Latin American countries, including Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Argentina, Bolivia and Uruguay, visiting stages they had not visited on previous tours.
Morat, one of the most internationally recognized Colombian bands, said goodbye to the stage until the beginning of next year, accompanied by a light show, and promised to return to the so-called Island of Enchantment.
In May, they released their latest and fifth studio album “Ya Es Mañana” (or “YEM” as it is abbreviated among their followers), which won them the Latin Grammy for Best Pop/Rock Album, replacing the EP “Antes de que amanezca” (2023) and their latest LP “Siyerier fue hoy” (2022).
The Colombian group announced that they will perform in several Spanish cities in 2026 together with the “YEM World Tour”, including Barcelona, Pamplona, Valencia, Seville and Madrid.
Esther Alaejos
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