Tino Casal It will hit television screens and audiovisual platforms this Christmas with a premiere that promises plenty of glamor. The documentary series “Tino Casal”, which can be watched on Atresplayer starting from the 24th, brings together the family, friends, collaborators and fans of the versatile Asturian artist. Through its authors, testimonies and enormous documentary materials, Alfonso Albaceteas a director and screenwriter and Antonio AsencioAs co-authors, we set out to portray him, and with him the Madrid Movida of the 80s when Tino Casal reigned, from all possible angles.
With the three-part series, Albacete and Asencio want to “show who Tino Casal is: the one-man orchestra of the Renaissance.” Asencio credits his musical success with legendary songs like: “damned” anyone “Eloise“, “overshadowed many aspects” of the artist. The painter Antonio Villatoro, who was traveling with him on the day of the car accident that claimed his life, when he was only 41 years old, had much to offer yet. He intervenes in the documentary and speaks of his friend as one of the great artists of contemporary plastic art.
Asencio predicts that the documentary will approach the less popular aspects of the prolific professional career of Tino Casal, who has also worked as a singer, composer, music producer, painter, graphic designer and producer for the rock band, among others.howitzerVideos like ” and popular videos from the eighties “Night is not for me.”
“He had an extraordinary artistic talent that stood out in all the watering holes he entered: singer, painter, set designers… And then there’s his. generosityhis devotion to his friends, always willing to help, very down to earth, very down to earth,” Asencio says.
The series wants to reveal what process he is going through José Celestino Casal He reinvents himself and creates the iconic Movida character named Tino Casal, who was very influential in the 80s and whose traces can still be traced in contemporary Spanish music.
It touches on both Tino Casal’s musical career and personal life. Those in charge had access to artistic materials provided by their sisters. Conchita and Maritina, to his paintings, costumes, archives and newspaper archives. The resulting profile is that of “a versatile and versatile artist born in Madrid Movida, during one of Spain’s greatest periods of cultural exuberance.”
“Tino Casal” brings together a large catalog of personalities who are in one way or another associated with the singer and help to recreate his figure with their memories and ideas. Sandra Golpe, Víctor Manuel, Valeria Vegas, Marta Sango, Luis Cobos, Agoney, La Terremoto de Alcorcón, Paco Clavel, Paloma Azna “Vampirella”, Cristina Rodríguez, Fernandisco, Arturo Paniagua And Cayetana Guillen Cuervo are some of them.
New documentary series originally from Atresplayer and produced in collaboration with Atresmedia Televisión La CometaTV, It will be fully available on the Atresmedia platform and on the international version of Atresplayer outside Spain from next Sunday.
September 22, 1991 marks 30 years since Tino Casal’s death in a car accident, and since then there have been various attempts to revisit his genius and legacy. The origins of the Albacete and Asencio series also date back to this anniversary. “There has been a resurgence of interest in his figure, in recovering his music, and in paying tribute to a very important artist who influenced a very different time and style.” Asencio states.
For Tino Casal, David Bowie was his idol and role model, and London was the city of his dreams. He was born in 1950 in the town of Tudela Veguín, in the municipality of Oviedo, and this environment, despite everything, shaped the personality of one of the brightest stars of the Spanish music scene of the 80s. In 1963 I was already part of a rock band. “Black Sapphires”, and soon joined the Asturian group “Archdukes”. The legend was now starting to take shape.