Spicy mixture of salsa, rumba and boleros in the HMT final concert of the young singer. "Arbol de la vida" (The tree of life) is the title of a journey to Latin America. The roots of this tree lie in fiery Mexico. The singer Fernando Gutiérrez, who grew up in Berlin, was born there.

With his Latin Band he finds inspiration in the stories of his grandmother, in songs in Nahuatl, the original language of the Aztecs, in Spanish poems by Octavio Paz, the Mexican Nobel Prize winner for literature, as well as in his own texts.

Fernando Gutiérrez (voc), Anna-Lena Panten (back, maracas), Bianca Aristía (back, guiro), Mathis Rathke (timb, dr, cj), Hannes Malkowski (cong, perc), Babett Niclas (harp), Leo Bäthe (p), Fabian Hentschel (g), Gregor Nicolai (b), Vitaly Kiselev (tp, flh), Roman Polatzky (fl, ss, as), Arthur Kohlhaas (ts, as), Judith Kellner (bars, ts), Paul Quistorp (tb)