A Biography: Vetusta Morla

If we did a survey about who the most important singer or band is currently, the
names that would receive the highest percentage would be Rosalía, C. Tangana or
Alejandro Sanz. However, below all these mainstream names covered with a huge mass
media marketing made exclusively for them: you have to listen to and watch them
unconsciously up to the point that you could hum their chorus as if you had been
abducted by a spirit that turns your tongue into an autonomous living being singing a
song you would have never looked for in your Spotify account.
Far beyond this mainstream jungle, the Spanish band Vetusta Morla, whose
name evokes the fantastic world of the novel “Never Ending Story” by Michael Ende,
have been able to find their place in a world where songs with high quality lyrics get
lost among the top 10 fast shitty tunes (for Goodness sake!, where are the radical
feminists when the majority of these melodies full of degrading messages to women
come to the world? Maybe, losing themselves dancing these songs in a trendy disco)
The members of the band Álvaro, David, Guille, Jorge, Juanma and Pucho, who met at
high school, were aware of this and, after being denied by some discographies, decided
to run their own discography “It was very hard at the beginning, because we had to
combine our dream to be musicians with our jobs: we had to pay our bills” Guille said.
Thus, they recorded their first album “Un Día En El Mundo” in an improvised studio in
a little village in Castilla-La Mancha. Furthermore, their University degrees made them
able to be in charge of the design (Pucho studied Graphic Desing and Arts) of the launch
of the album (Guille and Juanma are journalists) and of the economic and marketing
matters (David and Jorge studied Business) and as they usually say “we made our bed
and we lie on it”, and they made such a wonderful bed that this first album is
considered one of the best album in Spanish by the critics. Songs like “Valiente”,
“Sálvese Quien Pueda” or “Copenhagen”, considered the best Spanish song for the
Radio 3 listeners are the hymns of their followers, people that are able to listen to a song
twice to savor it, that is Art, isn’it?