Dave Evans, the original singer of world-famous rock band AC/DC, says he will never forget what happened last week on the outskirts of Buenos Aires: a 5-year-old fan ran across a concert hall after a show and threw his arms around him with a loving hug.

“I make people happy. That’s what I do for a living,” he says with a huge smile..

“People of all ages love me down here,” he tells the Herald. “They really love rock. I’ve been all over the world many, many times, probably visited more countries than most artists, because I just love travelling since I was a niño, and here they rock more than anywhere else in the world.”

At 73, Evans has traveled the globe countless times, but few places have captured his heart quite like Argentina, he claims. 

Since his first visit in 2016, he has returned repeatedly, toured from Patagonia to Buenos Aires, embraced the local football culture and marveled with audiences whose passion for rock continues to amaze him.

“I feel free in Argentina,” he says. “It’s sort of like Australia used to be back in the 1950s and 1960s, even the 1970s. You can do virtually what you want, walk anywhere. I feel absolutely free.”

Evans’s connection with Argentina began unexpectedly. In 2016, a fan invited him to Brazil and helped finance the trip, but Evans arrived in South America with........

© Buenos Aires Herald