Miguel Bosé collects in his book ‘El son del Capitán Trueno’ how life was with his parents and how they did everything possible so that he is not homosexual.
At the most committed moment in the life of Miguel Bosé, the bullfighter’s son Luis Miguel Dominguín (“God on earth”) and the actress Lucia Bosé (“The most beautiful woman in the world”) tries to make herself understood in a memoir through the weight of her DNA and childhood experiences in an extraordinary environment, for good and for bad.
“Miguelito’s problem was surviving daily those two monsters that caused so much shadow and so much eclipse”, comments on turning back to his childhood in an interview held today in Madrid, after the exercise of prior reflection deposited in his first autobiography, Captain Thunder’s son (Sword).
The title, like the song of the same name that he released 20 years ago, alludes to the disappointment imprinted in his father’s eyes that marked his childhood and adolescence. “He did not meet the conditions he was looking for in an heir: macho, hunter, rude. I was of a more Lombard vein, sensitive, and read a lot “, recalls.
“Lucia, the child is going to be a fag”, He tells in the book that one day the bullfighter snapped at his wife, some “doubts and suspicions” that he tried to mitigate by taking him with only 10 years on safari to Mozambique and there, in addition to contracting malariaHe tried to be “initiated into manhood” by a 16-year-old girl.
Of that trip, which ended up unleashing the separation of his parents, he now tells that deep down it was “liberating”. “Why fight more,” he said to himself, considering that Dominguín, on whom he projected a fearsome image, had lost all hope in him.
This book, he points out, “is not a reckoning, but an exercise in understanding.” “I have forgiven him, although it was not necessary to do it either, because then you grow up and do worse things. In the end that genetics are transferred and multiplied and I understood that what had hurt me so much about him I was repeating it ”, reflects Bosé, who is currently so contested for his position on covid-19.
One day he caught his father looking at him spellbound and confessed that he was wrong about him. “It seems impossible to me that someone in my family has been something without ever asking me for anything and you never asked me for anything”she released him. From then on, he began a race to “make up for time” lost together.
Why count it now? “It was the moment”, responds the singer and composer in a work that ranges from his birth to his iconic debut in the Florida Park in Madrid in 1977, an episode from which the television series will take over from his vital and professional story. which will begin shooting “in a couple of months.”
“It was nice to explain childhood so that one could understand why what happened later happened and because that was a totally unpublished part of my life, without a trace in the newspaper archives beyond photos”, argues about 21 years of “textures, smells, lights and sensations”, seasoned “by unlikely characters, those who made and unmade the art and thought of the twentieth century.”
Personalities like Pablo Picasso, of which he offers a tender and unpublished image (“He decided that I was going to be what he saw in me,” he recalls), but also others such as Salvador Dalí, Visconti, Claudia Cardinale, Ava Gardner (“We were fascinated; I remember that he took off his shoes and threw himself on the ground to play with us”) or Deborah Kerr (“She was not a game, but rather a kalimotxo,” he jokes).
It is not obvious how she lost her virginity to Amanda Lear nor his romance to Call Me By Your Name with the actor Helmut Berger (“It was very natural and everything happened in a beautiful way”, praises), but he does acknowledge a moment that was difficult for him to recover in this work.
“The separation from my parents and telling about my mother sleeping on the street … I hesitated. There were things where he didn’t know if he had the right of intrusion. I asked for signs, they gave them to me and I told them, but that image struck me very deeply, it was devastating “, he confesses.
This story is in that sense also a vindication of the “alpha” women, especially the one referred to as a “goddess” and “the most perfect mother that no child could wish for (…). “And when he approached me and hugged me, those few precious and rare times, I closed my eyes and let me go”, writes.
Would you trade your childhood for a more conventional home where love was more explicit? “Right now I live in that house, my house, which has everything that I lacked: hugs, affection”, replies Bosé, a “slimy octopus” with his children, before adding: “But had I lived in a different place I would not be who I am, nor would I have this character, because in difficulties characters are forged more than in bonanzas”. (I)
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