Miguel Bosé says that with his book “you will do whatever you want, it’s yours”

Miguel Bosé he is clear that separating the artist from his work is a decision of each one and goes beyond controversies. “I no longer command,” says the Spanish singer in an interview with Efe in Mexico about his foray into the literary world with Captain Thunder’s son, his unpublished memoirs.

This book “It no longer belongs to me, with this you will do whatever you want, it is yours. When you cook my life, you can put in the same pot only my songs, the things that know about me on the other hand, or you can season it with spices from the past. I no longer command ”, he maintains.

Bosé wrote his memoirs in an intermittent period of three years. According to him, the creative process was similar to his way of making music and the result was an intense visit to his past and origins through the almost 500 pages that remained of the 800 that originally hoped to be part of his first autobiographical work.

“(The book) was touched by the decantation system with which I have treated the music. Whenever I compose songs I let them rest and, if after a while they hold, I will already board them. There are many things that fall and there are parts that do not they were substantial “in this play, he remembers.

Without grudges, Bosé shows in his memoir the toughest face of his father, the Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín, the figure of the macho man who did not respect the sensitivity of his son, but also the coldness of his mother, the Italian diva Lucia Bosé, of whom he was enraptured until the last day of his life.

“Life is not what one lives but how one remembers it. I remembered it with a very large spectacular sensory memory, the details, the smells, and I wanted to write it that way, very fictionalized, very cinematographic,” he says.

An incredible childhood

Bosé was famous since he was in his mother’s womb. He was born in Panama in 1956 as the son of two great figures who, during his childhood and adolescence, kept him in a very special space by being surrounded by “unlikely figures” such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí or Ava Gardner.

“How many children in the world do you think have had these characters that you have had in your memories?” Asked Bosé -who has recently raised controversy over his position against COVID-19- and this triggered him to begin to tell his life.

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The book culminates in his musical debut, when he finally got rid of the shadows of his parents, when he made his own name and a taxi driver recognized the bullfighter Dominguín as “Miguel Bosé’s father”.

The story of the artist’s life will be extended and can be seen on the screens through a series – written by himself – that continues the last chapter of the book and reflects his professional career until the birth of his children.

“This part (of his life) was understood as a more visual and aural moment. It was more difficult to explain these events in writing. It is better to see and hear them. (…) Furthermore, my career is the common territory of all fans. “, he points out.

Visit Miguelito

Even now, Bosé is governed by the heart of the sensitive child that he was – which has been captured in his book – and his “sacred and fantastic” DNA, but also wild, which guided him to music, a terrain not explored by his parents .

Now too the doors of literature were opened to him, one of the arts that he does not intend to abandon and where he hopes to tell stories beyond his own.

Bosé “woke up” the small and adolescent Miguelito who suffered to find his way when writing his story.

“Thank you for coming back when I called you and for having told you so exactly. No more, no less,” Bosé says to his past self.

In reviewing his diaries, which he began to write at the age of seven, he found a little boy who did not dare to verbalize his real emotions even in the most intimate way.

And in an introspective exercise, he recalled family myths told as truth by various members of his clan, such as his birth.

Although by showing his story he thinks to grant his audience a request that they had made so much of, he also confesses that it has been a work of self-liberation.

“The songs are born out of urgency. And this (the book) too. I have to let go of that, everything that I have not let go of before, I am not the one who decides. And it is one thing to pluck the fruit from the tree and another to wait for it to fall ripe in your hand, ”he says. (I)