The solidarity Mamapop makes the Palau de Congressos de Tarragona vibrate to the rhythm of the ‘Movida Generation’.

With 90% of the capacity full and a thousand tickets sold, the proceeds from the concert will go entirely to breast cancer research at the Pere Virgili Health Research Institute (IISPV). As part of the concert, a credential was given to the researcher who will start her pre-doctoral contract at the IISPV thanks to the funds raised a year ago with Mamapop in Tarragona.

Tarragona, 18 November 2024. This Saturday, Tarragona hosted the premiere of the 9th edition of the Mamapop solidarity music show in Tarragona, which brought together a thousand people at the Palau Firal i de Congressos, reaching 90% occupancy of the hall. All the proceeds from the concert will once again go to breast cancer research at the Pere Virgili Health Research Institute. The credential was given to the researcher who will start her pre-doctoral contract at the IISPV thanks to the funds raised a year ago with the Mamapop in Tarragona, Noelia Peláez Poblet, a graduate in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Rovira i Virgili University, and with a master’s degree in Biological Engineering from the Pere Virgili Health Research Institute, and with a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Zaragoza, will explore in her research new connections between obesity and breast cancer, one of the cancers most strongly associated with obesity, especially in post-menopausal women.

To the rhythm of the music of the ‘Movida Generation’, Mamapop has made the audience vibrate and brought them to their feet by reviewing the great pop-rock songs of the eighties and nineties with versions of Alaska y Dinarama, Loquillo y los Trogloditas, Hombres G, La Guardia, Duncan Dhu, Los Secretos, Mecano, Tino Casal, Sau, Sopa de Cabra and Els Pets. Mamapop has put on stage a dozen solo singers and forty musicians fusing the pop-rock base of the MamaBanda with the strings of the Joven Orquesta de Ponent. All this under the musical direction of Josep María Bossa; pianist, guitarist, composer and producer of the Bolsa Records label.

Mamapop Solidarity has counted on the collaboration of Tarragona City Council and solidarity companies such as Repsol, Factor Energia and the Port of Tarragona.

About Mamapop
The Mamapop solidarity concert was born in Lleida in November 2014 with the aim of raising funds for scientific research on breast cancer. In Lleida, Mamapop donates its profits to the Institute of Biomedical Research of Lleida, becoming the first source of private funding of IRBLleida for breast cancer research with 232,800 €. In the counties of Tarragona, it collaborates with the Pere Virgili Health Research Institute (IISPV) in the same line and so far the contribution has been €23,699. Different companies and individuals have been actively collaborating with Mamapop since its launch. Of particular note is the support of the Repsol Foundation and Factor Energía, and especially that of anonymous people committed to the dissemination and promotion of the project, as well as ambassadors such as Luis del Olmo, Roser Capdevila, Rubén Viñuales, Xavier Grasset, the ambassador of honour Helena Rakosnik, the singer Lorena Gómez from Lleida and Mariona Escoda from Valladolid, among others.

About IISPV
The Pere Virgili Health Research Institute (IISPV) integrates biomedical research led from the Camp de Tarragona and Terres de l’Ebre regions. It is the instrument with which the university hospitals of both health regions (the Juan XXIII University Hospital in Tarragona, the Virgen de la Cinta Hospital in Tortosa, the Sant Joan University Hospital in Reus and the Pere Mata Institute University Hospital in Reus) and the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) have been equipped to bring together and manage biomedical research and innovation in the region.