The music and the musicians (singers, composers, etc.) do not go out of style. Neither does their biographies, trajectories or reflections that they narrate themselves or others, in tributes on paper. These are 5 of the books newest about the genre. I highlight 4 Spanish and 1 British protagonists, all figures more than consecrated.
Closing ellipsis - Rozalén
A Maria de los Angeles Rozalén Ortuño everyone knows her artistically as Rozalen. This singer-songwriter and composer from La Mancha has not been an emerging figure for a long time, but has won the favor of the public with only three albums published With the right to ..., Who has seen me y When the river sounds. And he has not only done it for his music, but also for his activism and social commitment. In this book, which is also an album, Rozalén makes a compilation of reflections about the most exciting and important moments and situations in his life in recent years.
Debut. Notebooks and songs - Christina Rosenvinge
Christina Rosenvinge has been in music for over 30 years. Who did not dance in our adolescence and youth with her and álex, in its best known formation, and its catchy rhythms? Now, the singer-songwriter of Danish ancestry collects more than twenty-five years of songs in this su first book so properly titled Debut.
It takes us through places, stories and reflections that are in his lyrics, some letters that are from a whole career together with the notebooks that he used to capture them. There is, of course, literary, musical and artistic references that have influenced his work. The book closes with a test qualified The exact word, in which he talks about the art of songwriting.
To cut a long story (In a few words) - Tony Hadley
Tony Hadley, the mythical singer of the historical Spandau Ballet, one of the most important British bands of the 80s, was last day 2 in Madrid signing this updated autobiography. And previously did it in Saint Jordi.
Hadley makes a nostalgia exercise largely about those years where he enjoyed a success as great as it was also full of chiaroscuro and very hard stages, which led to the dissolution of the group. They met again at the end of the last decade for a return to the world stage that was also triumphant because of the nostalgia of millions of fans. Now, after leaving the group permanently, he continues to achieve solo success with new recordings and his own band.
Malú, unauthorized biography - Miguel Ángel Bargueño
Mecano - Javier Adrados
With the subtitle The most important Spanish group in history, the author makes his intention clear. So this is the definitive and authorized biography of Mecano. A biography that pretends to be the answer to all questions of the origin, construction, success and end of this trio of musicians who, despite their disappearance, has not stopped playing on any radio stations.
What is known, how decisive it was when Jose Maria Cano, his brother Nacho and his girlfriend Ana they met the music producer Miguel Ángel Arenas, the «Capi», who recommended that the voice be hers and got them a contract with CBS. And what is not known or remains grayed out, such as why its enormous success prompted the animadversion from other groups and bands of the Madrid scene. Or what were the causes that led them to separate.