He has just released ‘Tú me delatas’, a preview single from his eighth album, and is celebrating his anniversary with a great concert in his home country, Almería
“You came out of nowhere, butterflies in your hair, floating above the ground, that’s how you are.” With these words begins David Bisbal’s latest single (Almería, 43 years old), ‘Tu me delatas’, a taster of what will be his eighth studio album, due out this year and which will have over a million views in just two weeks. on Youtube. And if we didn’t know that the one from Almería is a day laborer of the melodious song, a humble worker of those who squeeze his vocal cords and his physique to the last drop, we might as well think the lyrics speak about him.
For Bisbal, who has been on stage for twenty years now -he will celebrate it in November with a great concert in his native country-, came practically out of nowhere, although the smile, the longing and that sparkle in his eyes, as his last song, they will give him away. The son of a boxer who became a carpenter when he hung up his gloves, and of a seamstress, young David never liked studying, so he left class in BUP’s second year. After attending a forestry course-workshop, he started working in the municipal nursery in Almería. Things would change in 1997, when the head of the nursery heard him hum at work. The freshness and characteristic vibrato of his voice were already there, so he advised him to present himself at the casting as the singer of the Expressions Orchestra. Said and done. From that moment on, he from Almería combined his work in the nursery with the summer performances that took him throughout eastern Andalusia.
What he couldn’t imagine is that four years later, when he was only 22 years old, he and fifteen other participants would storm into a large part of Spanish homes thanks to ‘Operación Triunfo’, a television phenomenon that hit an average of seven million viewers and spread to the recorded music market in Spain, in low hours, where they sold more than three million copies of the various albums they published. Bisbal came in second, but he captured Chenoa’s heart – they were together until 2005 – and lit the fuse of success. In 2002 his ‘Corazón latino’, the first full-length of his career, released more than 1.3 million records and earned him his first Latin Grammy for best new artist – so far he has three -. That summer, songs like “Ave María” or “Lloraré las penas” didn’t stop playing at nightclubs and festivals. A star was born.
Yesterday Bisbal confessed in an interview that his career “hasn’t been a bullseye” and that being at the top has cost him from the first moment and from the first album: “It’s been a non-stop fight.” The truth is that effort is won by few. After ‘Corazón latino’ came albums like ‘Bulería’ (2004), ‘Premonición (2006), with songs like ‘Quien me was going to tell’ or ‘Silencio’; ‘You and I’ (2014) or ‘In your plans’ (2020). Records in which he smoothly switches between rumba, pop rock or ballads and with which he has appeared on stages all over the world. All this, not to mention his collaborations with national and international artists such as Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, Juan Magan, Malú, Luis Fonsi or Antonio Orozco, in addition to his first steps in series and films and his regular presence in musical talent shows. -He is currently one of the coaches of ‘La Voz Kids’ on Antena 3-.
It doesn’t look like it’s going to stop. Two years ago, just turning 40, he told this newspaper that they had fitted him “beautifully.” “I knew for a while that I had to take care of myself a lot more. Ultimately, what you eat is like the gasoline you put in your car, of better quality or less. I really liked that discipline to take care of myself’, said who assures that he still has ‘a lot to sing’.
Married to Venezuelan actress Rosanna Zanetti, the artist has three children, one of them with designer Elena Tablada, whom he divorced after a five-year relationship. Aware of the interest his private life arouses, he makes it clear that his profession is ‘music’. «I’m not selling anything of my life. If I could I would avoid it because I don’t like to talk about certain situations, but you have to be tolerant. If I hadn’t gotten used to the pink press, I’d be screwed.”
«I saw her, I said: ‘Ave María’, I’m taking her to Andalusia; I pray that something happens between you and me,” reads the chorus of his last song. Maybe he’s talking about himself.
Source: La Verdad
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