Nach returns home: “Origen: La raíz de una cultura” at Festival Noches Mágicas on July 31
Festival Noches Mágicas has announced one of the most anticipated performances of its fourteenth edition: on July 31, the Jardines de Abril in Sant Joan d’Alacant will host Nach — the most significant figure in Spanish-language rap over the past three decades — with the show “Origen: La raíz de una cultura”, conceived as a journey through his artistic legacy and through the values that have made hip hop one of the most influential cultural movements of our time.
Ignacio Fornés Olmo, known professionally as Nach, was born in Albacete on October 1, 1974, but grew up in the San Blas neighbourhood of Alicante — a city that has always been central to his artistic identity. He began his musical path in 1994 under the name Nach Scratch, with a first cassette titled “D.E.P.”, followed by years of jams, collaborations and underground shows before releasing his debut album “En la brevedad de los días” (2000), opening a discography that now spans ten studio records across more than three decades.
Over those thirty-plus years, Nach has built a reputation unmatched in Spanish rap. His ability to combine street-level directness with literary depth, philosophical reflection and social criticism has placed him in a category of his own, untouched by passing trends. “Mejor que el silencio” (2011) went Gold and earned a Goya Award nomination for the track Verbo. “Almanauta” (2018) gathered collaborations from Residente, Bunbury, Kase.O and El B, and received a Latin Grammy nomination. It was after that album that Nach stepped back — a seven-year pause during which he questioned his own artistic future. In his own words: “I stopped being at peace with society. I had a conflict between what I was and what I saw the world was becoming.” The decision to return was not impulsive: “I concluded that I wanted to keep writing songs because, for me, it’s a very intimate relationship. Everything else overwhelms me, but that relationship is still there.”
The comeback materialized in 2025 with “Destino”, his tenth studio album and first in seven years. Seventeen tracks featuring collaborations with Eladio Carrión, Trueno, Manuel Carrasco, SFDK and others, building generational and geographic bridges across the Spanish-speaking world. The title itself encapsulates the album’s core idea: “I believe destiny is what has brought me here. My life has moved toward the artist I was meant to be, » Nach has explained. That process of introspection, reconnection with writing and return to the stage is precisely the raw material behind “Origen”.
“Origen: La raíz de una cultura” is not a standard concert. The show is conceived as an encounter between music, spoken word and emotion, in which some of the most defining tracks of his career coexist with a reflection on hip hop’s roots as an artistic movement that found in language a tool for transformation, identity and connection. The performance also carries a specific geographical and emotional dimension: Sant Joan d’Alacant is the artist’s home territory, and this show is a homecoming.
Doors open at 20:00, allowing audiences to explore the Jardines de Abril, enjoy the festival’s food offering, visit the artisan market, take in live artistic interventions and absorb the distinctive atmosphere that sets Noches Mágicas apart before the concert begins.
Nach’s performance is part of a program running July 24 through August 6 in the Jardines de Abril. The fourteenth edition also features Miguel Campello, Ara Malikian, Israel Fernández, Ana Torroja, Rodrigo Cuevas and La Banda Sabinera. The festival opens with an 80s Summer Party headlined by Modestia Aparte and Toreros con Chanclas, followed by a 90s Summer Party featuring international acts Twenty 4 Seven and Double You. In 2025 the festival drew more than 20,000 attendees.
Tickets for Nach’s show and the full program are available at www.nochesmagicas.es.
