Camilo Sesto celebrates its 70th birthday in style with a new album, in which the Spanish artist reviews his greatest hits and unreleased tracks discovered, rarities and "jewels" hidden in his repertoire. After six years without publishing and several virtually retired from the stage, the album Camilo 70 returns to the singer, songwriter and producer to the first line with sixty songs that make up his "definitive retrospective". With over one hundred million albums sold, Camilo Sesto has sung the love for several decades and has become one of the major figures in the history of Spanish popular music. "I find it very honest that some sing against war, in defense of the flying ants or in favor of a political ideology. I too would like to, but I have been given the gift of interpreting those thousand forms of love," he wrote in his autobiography.
With its powerful and overwhelming voice has become anthems songs as well live it is to die for love, but it has also revolutionized the world of music and has composed songs for singers like Miguel Bosé, who launched the music world. Born in 1946 in Alcoy, in eastern Spain, and raised in a poor family, Camilo Sesto made his first steps in the choir of his school, before "rock and roll" at weddings and christenings with a band that played songs by The Beatles or Bee Gees. With 17 years and "five hundred pesetas in his pocket" he came to Madrid, where the early years survived by choirs for other musicians and painting pictures in the Rastro of Madrid. "At the time that job helped me pull forward," he acknowledged in an interview.
His successful future was opening step. In 1967, in the film Children of the Preu (Pedro Lazaga), exclaiming with prophetic tone and guitar in hand: "With this I'll put together, I'll be famous, engrave discs sell for millions." The discs came quickly. The first solo, even under the stage name Camilo Sexto , with "x" - was published in 1970. Two years later, after reaping a huge success in Spain, crossed the Atlantic and triumphed in countries such as Argentina, Chile or Mexico. In 1975, he revolutionized in Spain the world's musical adaptation of the opera Jesus Christ Superstar, who starred - and practically costeó- with applause. It was the only one, according to Andrew Lloyd Webber himself, producer of the original, was at the height of it. "We were four months without stopping, except for three days of mourning for the death of (Francisco) Franco," he recalled on one occasion the singer.
After several decades plagued of successes, in 2003 surprised with the theme Mola Mazo (colloquial expression meaning "I love"), which had great popularity among young people and disconcerted his lifelong fans. The furor caused the artist to his fans in the 70s and 80s, with brown hair and blue eyes, she trailed off. For years, leads a quiet life away from the spotlight and dedicated to painting and reading, two of his great passions with music. In 2014 he made a break and offered several concerts in Latin America. A year later, his appearance was much talked about in Spain to reappear in a TV show with a new aesthetic touch on his face.
