After more than ten years collecting documents and testimonies from family and friends, Dario Ledesmacreator and responsible for the official website Nino Bravoinvites you to discover “the person behind the legend” by publishing the first authoritative biography of the Valencian singer who died this Saturday 49 years ago.
“Nino Bravo. Voz y corazón”, published by Catalan publisher Milenio almost 500 pages Relatives, friends, and the “justice musical and “history” in Spanish to one of pop music’s most influential artists, revealing unpublished anecdotes and documents that accompanied him in his life and artistic career.
“Nino Bravo’s overall vision -artistic name Luis Manuel Ferri– About a character who achieved success and left when he was at the top but no explanation was given about how he got there, what the obstacles and obstacles were in front of him, his relationship with other singers of the time, and knowing more about him. the person behind the character,” Ledesma told Efe.
The author explains that one of the book’s greatest contributions is to be able to “approach” his childhood through the memories of his relatives, who remember the music he listened to on the radio as a child, and their love in the book. your movies Anthony Molinaor the reasons that led him to move from Aielo de Malferit to Valencia, from there to Carcaixent and back to Valencia.
Ledesma, for example, explains that she didn’t go to school. Aelo de Malferit, the place where the singer was born and where his museum is located, the ancestral town where he returned in the summer; He talks about his paternal great-grandmother, who was an opera singer, and his great-grandfather, who was the director of the Valencian choir, and Carcaixent, where he grew up, studied as a child, and made his first friends.
Also one of his first musical influences Jorge Sepúlveda, Antonio Machín, Jorge Negrete, Carlos Gardel or Antonio Molinacante jondo and Italian singers, especially Domenico Modugno, who “awakened” his motivation to devote himself to music.
Spanish Frank Sinatra
Ledesma also Tom Jones HE Frank Sinatra The Spaniard achieved this with her own voice that defined her, and indeed with her latest album, where she brought international hits like ‘Mona Lisa’ or ‘Laura’ to her hometown.
book full of holes jokes As well as his musical career from his first band Los Hispánicos to Los Superson and his solo debut under the stage name Nino Bravo, which has numerous versions of his own selection.
The most reliable, in the opinion of the author, is the opinion of the person who was its first representative. Miguel Siuran who found it: Nino, because of the rise of names in Italian and the same in every language, and because of the Bravo character, because despite being a shy person, he is very “brave” when he shows his anger.
The story accompanies unpublished photos, family and intimate moments, which the singer has always guarded with great enthusiasm. “He argued that the family belonged to Luis Manuel Ferri and that the media coverage should be strictly musical,” the author recalls.
One test was her wedding Protectionwho did it tight privacy. A journalist from ‘Mundo Joven’ managed to sneak into the ceremony and in retaliation Nino Bravo sent the photos to an agency so they would be released and thus offend him in private.
With this work, Ledesma assures that he wants to leave a legacy about man and his past and trajectory. “another essence”, With his “lights and shadows” he wrote the book that he wanted to read as objectively as possible and as a fan.
So where could Nino Bravo lead today? “I’m already imagining this with predicted international success, english recordingHe would continue to record albums, but at a different pace, to spend the rest of the time producing other artists and, of course, in connection with music”.
“You just have to remember” about the validity of the mythfreedom“It was one of the songs played when the quarantine was lifted due to the coronavirus pandemic,” writes the author.
“The fans needed to feel Nino Bravo’s presence, to be able to accompany him on this vital journey that had been abandoned to his fate. April 16, 1973″ in a traffic accident.
Darío Ledesma will present his book “Nino Bravo. Voz y corazón” next Wednesday on Calle Colón in El Corte Inglés. Valenciaaccompanied by the singer’s daughter, Amparo Ferri.