Miguel Bose - "Amante Bandido"

[kinglouiexviii]

I heard this song on the radio this morning, and I remembered how much I dug it. Man! This is old school. Anyone else remember it? It's from back in the mid 80's.

Bose re-released it in 2000 with a more upbeat, disco version. Really cool stuff. Too bad he hasn't done anything really good in a looooooong time.

All of his songs are kinda boring now. Comments???

[tortuga]

I forgot who this guy was, but I know I heard his name before. I post at the Latin forum a lot by I don't know shit about the music.

[strong4PMB!]

tortuga said:

I forgot who this guy was, but I know I heard his name before.

same

[kinglouiexviii]

He's from Spain. Tall, lanky guy. Looks like a white dude.

He was huge in the 80's but sorta faded out in the 90's, although he's still releasing new music on a consistent basis. Has worked with Ana Torroja, Benny Ibarra, and Alejandro Sanz.

I can't believe you guys don't know him...

[Carlitoz]

Miguel Bose!! He's one of my top 5 artists of all time!!! I love him!! He's such a talented and smart guy. He just turned 50. He's really an intelectual and very respected artist. His mother was a famous Italian actress and his father a very famous torero in Spain. Miguel grew up in the middle of all the arts and culture and famous people in Europe. Imagine that Picasso was like his god father. Growing up he was exposed to the best of fine arts and also rock and fashion of those days. He studied and lived in different cities in Europe as well as NY. He met Andy Warhol and he even made a painting for Miguel. Among other people in the 70s he would interact at parties were people that used to hang out with Warhol like Bowie. Miguel started very young recording albums. Initially his music was very pop (bubble gum pop in many cases mixed with some really good ballads and some cheesy ones too) and had tons of girls crazy for him. Since then (the 70s) his music has been evolving and evolving and getting better and better and more sofisticated. He can go with very introspective pieces of music as well as with really good dance music sometimes too. He's a very open minded and intellegent guy. He's never been too popular in the USA Latin Market, but he's big in Latin America and Spain. In the beginning of his career he had also many hits in French and Italian. These days he's recording his new album. I can't wait! He's really good friend of Alejandro Sanz. Just yesterday I almost had an orgasm watching on Youtube a performance this year with Miguel Bose, Alejandro Sanz, Ana Torroja, Julieta Venegas and Shakira all on the same stage singing Sanz' Corazon Partio. My favorite latin artist altogether!! I couldn't believe it!! I'm glad you brought up this topic, Kinglouiexviii!! BUT I have to disagree when you say he hasn't done anything really good in a long time. His best work has been done in the 90s and this decade. No doubt about it. Great music!! Maybe not the most commercial or pop, but his best music easily!

[kinglouiexviii]

Carlitoz:

Well, I'm certainly gald someone is excited about this post. To be honest, I haven't followed his entire career. Just a few songs here and there. But what I like the most from him was his older stuff. Of his more recent songs, I really dug "morena mia". And his album that has gotten my attention the most is the 11 MANERAS DE PONERSE UN SOMBRERO (or something like that).

I have a good friend who looooves him. But her favorite music by him is also his older material. By the way, which concert was this where all of those artists sung "corazon partio"?

Saludos....

[Carlitoz]

Hola, Louie! How are you doing. Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I do like his old stuff too, only that the very old stuff is very different from his current music. I still like to listen to it for fun. :)
It's sometimes like comparing a very early Wham! song to a current mature song from George Michael. I have Bose's whole discography so depending on my mood I choose what album of his to listen. I really like 11 MANERAS too. SERENO is really good also. The performance from YouTube I think was from a show from Spain, apparently some type of anniversary edition or something. I think the show is called LAS 40 or something like that. It's a very popular one over there. I doubt you'll have any problems finding it. Search by the name of the song or two or more of the artists. Have a good one!

[kinglouiexviii]

Orale. I'll look for it. Sounds pretty cool.