Miguel Bosé
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Miguel Dominguín Bosé is a Latin Grammy-winning Spanish
Spain
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/Italian
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 musician
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 and actor
Actor
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.

Early life

Bosé was born in San Fernando Hospital in Panama City
Panama City
Panama is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. It has a population of 880,691, with a total metro population of 1,272,672, and it is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of the same name. The city is the political and administrative center of the...

, Panama
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, the son of the famous Italian
Italy
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 actress Lucia Bosé
Lucia Bosé
Lucia Bosè, born Lucia Borloni , is an Italian actress, who was at the height of her fame during the period of Italian Neorealism, the 1940s and 1950s. She is the mother of famous Spanish singer Miguel Bosé.-Life and career:...

 and the legendary bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín. He is also a cousin of Carmen Ordóñez
Carmen Ordóñez
Carmina Ordóñez was a member of Spanish families with a background in bullfighting. She was the daughter, ex-wife and mother of bullfighters....

. He grew up in an environment surrounded by art and culture. Close friends of his family were Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...

, Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...

. His godfather was Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter. He is best known for his films The Leopard and Death in Venice .-Life:...

 and Pablo Picasso was the godfather of his sister Paola Dominguin.

Career

In 1971, Bosé started a career as an actor, participating in various movies. However, he did not make that many films, and in 1975 he decided a career change was due and started exploring his talents as a singer. With the assistance of Camilo Blanes he recorded his first singles. Two years later, in 1977, Bosé signed a contract with CBS Records
CBS Records
CBS Records is a record label founded by CBS Corporation in 2006 to take advantage of music from its entertainment properties owned by CBS Television Studios. The initial label roster consisted of only three artists; rock band Señor Happy and singer/songwriters Will Dailey and P.J...

, 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
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

 WAPA-TV
WAPA-TV
WAPA-TV is an independent television station located in San Juan, Puerto Rico transmitting over digital channel 27, virtual channel 4. The station is owned by InterMedia Partners and is branded as WAPA Television....

. But it was in 1985 that he became an international superstar, when his song "Amante bandido" rose to the top of the charts all over Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

 and in Spain
Spain
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, while he started to decline in Italy
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 (where he had a parallel career, singing in both Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

 and English
English language
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 - he would go back to the top there in 1994, by winning Festivalbar (the second musical event after the Sanremo Music Festival) for the third time). The video to that song also became one of the most widely seen Spanish music videos, with Bose playing both a Superman
Superman
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 style superhero and an Indiana Jones
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 type of adventurer in it.

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
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...

 and Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...

 among his family friends, Bosé grew up in the arts, constantly traveling around Spain
Spain
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 and to Milan
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, New York
New York
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, London
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 and Paris
Paris
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. He made his film debut at the age of 15, and at age 21 he began his singing career, which eventually led 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.

In 2007, to celebrate his 30 years as a singer, he released Papito
Papito (album)
Papito is an album released by Spanish pop singer Miguel Bosé to celebrate his 30 years in the Music industry. The album includes 14 tracks of previously known hit songs by the artist, in reworked versions in collaboration with many artists including Juanes, Shakira, Amaia Montero, Ricky Martin,...

, an album that contains remakes of his previous songs, re-interpreted in duets with Juanes
Juanes
Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez , better known as Juanes is a Colombian musician who was a member of heavy metal band Ekhymosis and is now a solo artist. In 2000, his solo debut album Fíjate Bien won three Latin Grammy Awards.Juanes has sold more than 13 million albums...

, Alejandro Sanz
Alejandro Sanz
Alejandro Sanz , is a Spanish singer-songwriter and musician. For his work, Sanz has won a total of fifteen Latin Grammy Awards and three Grammy Awards. He has won the Latin Grammy for Album of the Year three times, more than any other artist...

, Fangoria (band)
Fangoria (band)
Fangoria is an electro-pop band, the brainchild of Alaska and Nacho Canut. They have sold over 1,200,000 CDs.In 1977 Alaska, along with Nacho Canut and Carlos Berlanga, formed the band Alaska y los Pegamoides. Later, in 1982, they changed the name to Alaska y Dinarama...

, Ivete Sangalo
Ivete Sangalo
Ivete Maria Dias de Sangalo is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Brazilian Axé and MPB singer, songwriter, and occasional actress and television show host...

, Laura Pausini
Laura Pausini
Laura Pausini, is a Grammy Award-winning Italian soul singer-songwriter. She debuted in 1993, winning the newcomer artists' section of the 43rd Sanremo Music Festival with the song "La solitudine", which became an Italian standard and an international hit, reaching the top spot on the Italian...

, Shakira
Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known professionally as Shakira , is a Colombian singer who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s...

, Julieta Venegas
Julieta Venegas
Julieta Venegas Percevault , known professionally as Julieta Venegas, is a Mexican singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and producer, who sings pop-rock in Spanish. She speaks English, Portuguese, and Spanish fluently. She has a twin sister, Yvonne, who is a photographer...

, Ricky Martin
Ricky Martin
Enrique "Ricky" Martín Morales , better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican and Spanish pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.During his career he has sold more than 60 million album copies worldwide...

, Amaia Montero
Amaia Montero
Amaia Montero Saldías , also known as the original vocalist of La Oreja de Van Gogh between 1996 and 2007, is a singer/songwriter from Basque Country, Spain. Including her work with the band, Montero has sold more than 7 million albums worldwide.-Background:Amaia Montero is the daughter of José...

 (past member of the Spanish band La Oreja de Van Gogh
La Oreja de Van Gogh
La Oreja de Van Gogh is a Latin Grammy-winning and Grammy-nominated Spanish pop band from Donostia-San Sebastian. The name of the band refers to the famous post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh who cut off the lobe of his own ear...

), and Michael Stipe
Michael Stipe
John Michael Stipe is an American singer and lyricist. He was the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band R.E.M.Stipe is noted and occasionally parodied for the "mumbling" style of his early career as well as his social and political activism. He was in charge of R.E.M.'s visual image; often...

 from R.E.M.
R.E.M.
R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...

, along with many other singers. Three singles were released off Papito: the first is a re-make of his hit "Nena", featuring Mexican superstar Paulina Rubio
Paulina Rubio
Paulina Susana Rubio Rue is a Mexican singer and actress. Rubio achieved international stardom with her fifth studio album, Paulina...

; the second was "Morenamía", with Julieta Venegas. The third single "Como un lobo" featured his niece Bimba Bosé. "Nena" was by far the most successful single off the album, since it was nominated for a Latin Grammy for best song, and became the best selling download of Spain in 2007.

In 2008, Colombian President Álvaro Uribe
Álvaro Uribe
Alvaro Uribe Vélez was the 58th President of Colombia, from 2002 to 2010. In August 2010 he was appointed Vice-chairman of the UN panel investigating the Gaza flotilla raid....

 offered him Colombian citizenship because of his efforts towards peace in Colombia, including his participation in two concerts in 2008. On March 16 of 2010 he received Colombian citizenship
Colombian nationality law
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 during a ceremony in the presidential palace, Casa de Nariño.

Discography

  • WEA
  • 2010: Cardio
    Cardio (album)
    Cardio is the 18th studio album By Latin Grammy-winning Spanish musician and actor, Miguel Bosé. It was released in 2010. Cardio spent seven weeks on Billboard Magazine's Latin Pop Albums chart, peaking at #3, and five weeks on the Latin Albums chart, peaking at #7.-Track listing:# "Estuve a punto...

  • 2007: Papitour
    Papitour
    Papitour is a live-concert album by Latin Grammy-winning Spanish musician and actor, Miguel Bosé. It was released in December of 2007.-Track listing:# "Sereno"# "Duende"# "Nena"# "El Hijo del Capitán Trueno"# "Bambú"# "Gulliver"# "Salamandra"...

  • 2007: Papito
    Papito (album)
    Papito is an album released by Spanish pop singer Miguel Bosé to celebrate his 30 years in the Music industry. The album includes 14 tracks of previously known hit songs by the artist, in reworked versions in collaboration with many artists including Juanes, Shakira, Amaia Montero, Ricky Martin,...

  • 2005: Velvetina
    Velvetina
    Velvetina is an album released in 2005 by the Spanish-Italian singer Miguel Bosé.The album was released in Spain as an audio CD, and as a special edition for the Creative Zen which featured audio, a video clip for each of the 13 songs and photography....

  • 2004: Por vos muero
    Por vos muero
    Por Vos Muero is the 15th studio album by Latin Grammy-winning Spanish musician and actor, Miguel Bosé. It was released in November of 2004.-Track listing:# "El Ilusionista"# "Olvidame tu"# "Levantate y olvida"# "Amiga "...

  • 2002: Sereno
    Sereno
    Sereno is the 14th studio album by Latin Grammy-winning Spanish musician and actor, Miguel Bosé. It was released in 2002.-Track listing:# "Puede Que"# "Gulliver"# "Mirarte"# "El Hijo del Capitán Trueno"# "Te Digo Armor"# "Tic Tac"...

    (Winner of 2003 Latin Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Performance)
  • 2002: Girados
    Girados
    Girados en Concierto is a live-concert double-album by Latin Grammy-winning Spanish musician and actor, Miguel Bosé and Spanish singer Ana Torroja, formerly of the group Mecano. It was released in the U.S. on May 14th, 2002...

    (with Ana Torroja)
  • 1999: Lo mejor de Bosé
    Lo mejor de Bosé
    Lo Mejor De Miguel Bosé is a 'Best-Of' compilation album by Latin Grammy-winning Spanish musician and actor, Miguel Bosé. It was released in 1999.-Track listing:# "Amante Bandido 99"# "No Hay Ni un Corazón Que Valga la Pena"# "Nena"...

  • 1998: 11 maneras de ponerse un sombrero
    11 maneras de ponerse un sombrero
    11 maneras de ponerse un sombrero is the thirteenth studio album by Latin Grammy-winning Spanish musician and actor, Miguel Bosé, and his 7th with Warner Bros. Records...

  • 1996: Laberinto
    Laberinto
    Laberinto is the twelfth studio album by Latin Grammy-winning Spanish musician and actor, Miguel Bosé, and his sixth with Warner Bros. Records . It was released in 1996...

  • 1993: Bajo el signo de Caín
    Bajo el signo de Caín (album)
    Bajo el signo de cain is the twelfth album overall from Latin music singer-songwriter Miguel Bosé. Released in 1993, it was his fifth full-length on WEA Latina.-Track listing:*Spanish titles are first, followed by English translations in parenthesis....

  • 1990: Directo 90
    Directo 90
    Directo 90 is a live-concert album by Latin Grammy-winning Spanish musician and actor, Miguel Bosé. It was released in 1991.-Track listing:# "Introduccion"# "Senza Di Te"# "Nena"# "Salamandra"# "Si Te Cuentan Que Cai"# "Como un Lobo"...

  • 1990: Los chicos no lloran
    Los chicos no lloran
    Los Chicos No Lloran is the 10th studio album by Latin Grammy-winning Spanish musician and actor, Miguel Bosé, and his third with Warner Bros. Records...

  • 1987: XXX (collaboration with Giorgio Vanni
    Giorgio Vanni
    Giorgio Vincenzo Vanni is an Italian singer and song-writer. Vanni is well known for performing theme songs of Italian dubs of Japanese and American animated TV series. The dubbed Italian songs he sings usually are not covers of the Japanese songs but tend to be newly written songs for the Italian...

     and Tomato)
  • 1986: Salamandra

  • CBS
  • 1984: Bandido (collaboration with Giorgio Vanni
    Giorgio Vanni
    Giorgio Vincenzo Vanni is an Italian singer and song-writer. Vanni is well known for performing theme songs of Italian dubs of Japanese and American animated TV series. The dubbed Italian songs he sings usually are not covers of the Japanese songs but tend to be newly written songs for the Italian...

     and Tomato)
  • 1983: Made in Spain
  • 1982: ¡Bravo, muchachos! Los grandes éxitos de Miguel Bosé
  • 1981: Más allá
  • 1980: Miguel
    Miguel (Miguel Bosé album)
    Miguel is an album By Latin Grammy-winning Spanish musician and actor, Miguel Bosé, It was released in 1980.-Track listing:# "Morir De Amor"# "Give Me Your Love"# "Te Amare"# "Senor Padre"# "Ensayo"# "Voy A Ganar"# "Girls,Girls,Girls"...

  • 1979: ¡Chicas!
    ¡Chicas!
    ¡Chicas! is an album by Latin Grammy-winning Spanish musician and actor, Miguel Bosé, It was released in 1979.-Track listing:# "Vota Juan 26"# "Super Superman"# "Si...piensa en mi"# "Mamma mamma"# "Creo en tí"# "Perdón señor"...

  • 1978: Miguel Bosé
    Miguel Bosé (Miguel Bosé album)
    Miguel Bosé is the homonym album By Latin Grammy-winning Spanish musician and actor, Miguel Bosé, It was released in 1978.-Track listing:# "Amor mío... cómo estas?"# "El juego del amor"# "Niño de palo"# "Lucky guy"# "Decir adios"# "Anna"...

  • 1978: Linda
    Linda (Miguel Bosé album)
    Linda is an album By Latin Grammy-winning Spanish musician and actor, Miguel Bosé, It was released in 1978.-Track listing:# "Linda"# "Mi Libertad"# "Pequeño Amor"# "Luna Park"# "Que Viva El Gran Amor"# "Eres Todo Para Mí"...


  • Ariola
  • 1976: Es tan fácil (B-side: "Who?", single)
  • 1975: Soy (B-side: "For Ever For You" , single)

Actor

  • 1998: La mirada del otro
    La Mirada del Otro
    The Naked Eye is a 1998 Spanish film, written and directed by Vicente Aranda adapted from a novel by Fernando G. Delgado. It stars Laura Morante, Miguel Ángel García and José Coronado. The film is an erotic psychodrama, an exploration of female sexual desire...

    .... Santiago
  • 1998: Lorca
    Lorca
    Lorca is a municipality and town in the autonomous community of Murcia in southeastern Spain, 36 miles southwest of the city of Murcia. It had a population of 92,694 in 2010, up from the 2001 census total of 77,477. Lorca is the municipality with the second-largest surface area in Spain with...

    .... Lorca
  • 1996: Oui
    OUI
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    .... Hugo
  • 1996: Libertarias
    Libertarias
    Libertarias is a Spanish historical drama made in 1996. It was written and directed by Vicente Aranda.In 1936, Maria , a young nun is recruited by Pilar , a militant feminist, into an anarchist militia following the onset of the Spanish Civil War...

    .... Cura secretario de Durruti
  • 1996: Amor digital .... Cinco-cinco
  • 1995: Gazon maudit .... Diego, the Young Man
  • 1995: Detrás del dinero (TV)
  • 1994: Enciende mi pasión .... Ángel
  • 1994: La reine Margot
    La Reine Margot (1994 film)
    La Reine Margot is a 1994 French period film directed by Patrice Chéreau, based on the 1845 historical novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas, père. It stars Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Virna Lisi and Vincent Pérez...

    .... Guise
  • 1993: Mazeppa
    Mazeppa
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    .... Gericault
  • 1993: La nuit sacrée .... Le consul
  • 1991: High Heels .... Juez Domínguez/Hugo/Letal
  • 1991: Lo más natural .... Andrés
  • 1990: L'avaro .... Valerio
  • 1989: Shangay Lily
  • 1988: Il segreto del Sahara
    Il segreto del Sahara
    Il segreto del Sahara is an Italian television series....

    TV mini-series .... El Halem
  • 1987: En penumbra
  • 1985: El caballero del dragón .... IX
  • 1982: Due di tutto TV series
  • 1981: Cosa de locos
  • 1978: La borgata dei sogni
  • 1978: Sentados al borde de la mañana con los pies colgando
  • 1977: California
    California
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    .... Willy Preston
  • 1977: La gabbia
  • 1977: Oedipus orca
    Oedipus orca
    Oedipus orca is a 1977 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

  • 1977: Suspiria
    Suspiria
    Suspiria is a 1977 Italian horror film directed by Dario Argento and co-written by Argento and Daria Nicolodi. The film follows an American ballet student who transfers to a prestigious dance academy in Germany, only to discover that it is controlled by a coven of witches. The film's score was...

    .... Mark
  • 1976: Retrato de familia
    Retrato de Familia
    Retrato de Familia is a 1976 Spanish film directed by Antonio Giménez-Rico. It stars Antonio Ferrandis, Amparo Soler Leal and Miguel Bosé, making his film debut. This is Giménez-Rico ’s best known film. The script was written by him, based on the novel Mi idolatrado hijo Sisi , by Miguel...

    .... Cécil Rubes
  • 1976: Garofano rosso
    Garofano rosso
    Garofano rosso is the fifth studio album by Italian progressive rock band Banco del Mutuo Soccorso. It is an instrumental soundtrack from the film with the same name.-Track listing:# "Zobeida" – 2:40# "Funerale" – 4:28...

  • 1976: Giovannino
  • 1976: La orca
    La Orca
    La Orca is a 1976 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

    .... Humberto
  • 1974: Vera, un cuento cruel .... Enrique
  • 1973: Gli eroi .... German soldier

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