Miguel Bose: I’m Going to Be Around for a Long Time

Spanish singer Miguel Bose, who in 2017 is reviewing on tour his 40-year entertainment career, said Wednesday in Miami that he still has a lot to attain in music, and thus “Bose is going to be around for a long time, and Miguel for longer.”

In a public interview during the Billboard Latin Music Conference taking place in Miami this week, Bose insisted that being a father had unleashed a “hurricane of creativity” within him and, at age 61, he has an “unsuspected and infinite” panorama ahead of him, both in the musical sphere and in activism.

He said that there have been two personalities inside him for a long time – Miguel and Bose – a dichotomy that the performer uses to describe the difference between the artist and the person he is at home with his family, in addition to being an activist in assorted social causes.

“I use Bose to interfere with the message that Miguel sends,” he said, currently on a hemispheric tour that he started in Mexico and which is taking him to eight countries, including Argentina and the United States and during which he is presenting a review of his musical career.

The singer of hits such as “Morena mia” and “Amante bandido” last year released his MTV Unplugged album, a project for which he had to adapt his repertoire, creating “new structures” for certain numbers and even modifying some of his lyrics.

In his new live show, “Estare” (I will be), Bose reviews his artistic career starting with his first hit – “Linda” – released in 1977 and with which he began to become someone quite apart from just being the son of Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguin and Italian actress Lucia Bose.

He admitted that his family ties gave him an “advantage,” given his links with iconic figures such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway and Jean Cocteau, although he went on to say that some of his early lyrics were “terrible.”

While in Miami, where he will return to perform on May 6, Bose sent a special message to Venezuela and criticized the world’s leaders for their “alarming and unpardonable” behavior, saying “We want to change things ... We citizens are noticing that those we vote for are no longer our voice and don’t represent us.”