Miguel Bosé

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Miguel Luchino González Bosé (April 3, 1956, Aries, Panama), is a Spanish actor and musician, born in the Republic of Panama. He is the son of the famous Italian actress Lucia Bosé and the legendary bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín, he is also cousin of the late Carmen Ordóñez. His godfather is Luchino Visconti. He has been in many successful Latino movies and other artistic works.

In 1971, Bosé started a career as an actor, participating in various movies. However, he didn't make that many films, and in 1975 he decided a career change was due and started exploring his talents as a singer. By the hand of Camilo Blanes (Camilo Sesto) he recorded his first singles. Some years later Bosé signed a contract with CBS Records in 1977 and he remained with them until 1984.

In 1983, 1984 and 1985, he participated in the Llena Tu Cabeza De Rock television specials on Puerto Rico's WAPA-TV. But it was in '85 that he became an international superstar, when his song Amante Bandido rose to the top of the charts all over Latin America and in Spain. The video to that song also became one of the most widely seen Spanish music videos, with Bose playing both a Superman style superhero and an Indiana Jones type of adventurer in it.

Miguel Bosé has been a force in Latin music with a career that has spanned 21 albums, roles in more than 35 films, his own television show, and work as a theatre director. With Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway among his family friends, Bosé grew up in the arts, constantly traveling around Spain and to Milan, New York, London, Paris. He made his film debut at the age of 15, and at age 21, he began his singing career which eventually lead to international pop stardom.

Defying the contemporary formula for pop success, his music has been described as a global fusion of many musical influences. At the center of his music is all the passion and expression of a Latin artist, yet Miguel Bosé has constantly incorporated more diverse musical elements than many of the genre's crossover pop stars.

[edit] Discography

Ariola
- Soy (For Ever For You, single, 1975)
- Es tan fácil (Who?, single, 1976)
CBS
- Linda (1978)
- Miguel Bosè (1978)
- ¡Chicas! (1979)
- Miguel (1980)
- Más allá (1981)
- ¡Bravo, muchachos! Los grandes éxitos de Miguel Bosè (1982)
- Made in Spain (1983, with a cover by Andy Warhol)
- Bandido (1984)
WEA
- Salamandra (1986)
- XXX (1987)
- Los chicos no lloran (1990)
- Directo 90' (1990)
- Bajo el signo de Caín (1993)
- Laberinto (1996)
- Maneras de ponerse un sombrero (1998)
- Lo mejor de Bosè (1999)
- Sereno (2002)
- Por vos muero (2003)
- Velvetina (2005)