He gave voice to the early years of the 70s and, without knowing it, set style. Nino Bravo He is an icon of Spanish music and now, suddenly, he is revealed to us as an icon of style. Aesthetically speaking, The 70s were daring years, the artists of the time dressed like international stars thanks to television, the window to the world for many Spaniards for years. The androgyny and futuristic style of the 60s began to be left behind, to embrace new airs: the hippy is in fashion (and even the Jesus Christ style) and this style is covered to achieve others such as boho, folk (praised by Yves Saint Laurent y Kenzo Takada) and the ‘do it yourself’.
Narrow shirts and wide pants
Unisex jeans are the key garment and the t-shirts serve as a canvas or blackboard to express oneself with protest messages. In winter, tabards, suede jackets and cloth coats, preferably with a herringbone, are great. In summer, knitwear, shirts with bright prints, tight T-shirts and swimsuits reduced to a minimum: everything very close-fitting, highlighting muscle and biceps or stomach and float.
Nino Bravo with three-piece velvet tuxedo ©RADIALPRESS
From the closet to the Nino Bravo Museum
Another of the most powerful, and perhaps most influential, trends is the disco aesthetic: white suits with black shirts or black suits with jabot shirts swept the scene.s. Sean Connery, the James Bond of those years, is the mirror in which many look at themselves. The pants widen and the bottoms fall towards the floor, they are bell-bottom or elephant-leg pants. At the same time, the shirts shrink and cling to the body like a second skin. The collars are flared – the bigger the better! – and the buttons are fastened just enough, leaving the chest and navel visible.
Tuxedo and frills shirt by Juan Avellaneda
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Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal, protagonists of Love Storyset trends on both sides of the Atlantic and in Spain we look at the looks of Camilo Sesto, Karina, Raphael, Massiel and Nino Bravo. Formula V and Los Diablos break outand television programs are more instructive, as far as fashion is concerned, than magazines.
Costume exhibition at the Nino Bravo Museum agencies
Nino Bravo with a white jacket tuxedo in one of his performances agencies
Harry Styles’ look at the Venice Film Festival with a shirt with oversized collars, and thePaul Mescal at the Oscars, both signed by Gucci, could have come from the artist’s closet. His wardrobe can be seen in the museum that bears his name, a space created in 2006 in the place in Aielo de Malferit, where Luis Manuel Ferri Llopis, known throughout the world as Nino, was born on August 3, 1944. Bravo.
Harry Styles at the 2022 Venice Film Festival AFP AFP
Nino Bravo with a very seventies look cropper
Paul Mescal in a retro Gucci tuxedo at the 2023 Oscars
Austin Butler of Saint Laurent
Nino Bravo with a white suit in one of his performances cropper
Mans Concept, spring and summer 2023
Nino Bravo with a white outfit in Barcelona EFE
As he said in one of his most famous songs, Nino Bravo He could not separate himself from the home where the sky met the sea. Breaking the norm of most artists who moved to the capital of Madrid to develop their musical career, she chose to stay in his native Valencia. A decision that kept him close to his family, but forced him to spend half his life on the road. In one year, the singer could travel nearly 115,000 kilometers. Always on the edge of that second-hand BMW 2800, the same car in which he would lose his life and in which, without knowing it, he would light the spark of an overwhelming melody that could never be heard and of his great posthumous song.
That happened April 17, 1973 in which Nino Bravo lost his life. Traveling with him on his last Valencia-Madrid journey were the musicians Fernando Romero and Miguel Ciaurriz, from the duo Humo, and their musical comrade Pepe Juesas. The idea was to record some choruses for what was going to be the Valencian’s fifth studio album. An album of which several songs had already begun to be recorded in London and which included songs like América, América or Vivir, the only known song in whose composition the singer participated and which he wanted to dedicate to his wife, Mary.
Nino Bravo’s voice became a legend RTVE
The Beatles and Serrat played on their last trip
The story is told by Juesas and Romero themselves in Nino Bravo, Vivir (2023), the documentary produced by the program Essentials which pays tribute to one of the most important artists in Spanish musical history, which premiered coinciding with the50th anniversary of his death and has been recovered for debate in Blood ties. In it, the two musicians recount the hours before the fateful traffic accident in which Nino Bravo lost his life. A trip, between Valencia and Madrid, very different from the one that can be made today, much longer and whose route was along old secondary roads.
They had left very early, at 7 in the morning they were already underway. With Nino at the wheel, the four of them let the hours pass by with what they were most passionate about: music. The Beatles, Serrat… were playing at full volume on the car’s cassette player. They also talked about the production of the album they had in hand. Shortly before the accident, He called me at home and told me that he had composed some notes”says Juesas. Nino was referring to the song Vivir, which he had to finish fixing in the studio, posthumously. Initially, the lyrics of that song said “Mary“, instead of “live”, in reference to his wife, to whom he wanted to dedicate the song.
Vivir, a hymn to life after Nino’s death
Talk about that “tremendous hymn to life”, as Juesas defines it, shortly before the moment of his death is something that forever marked Juesas, who, along with Romero and Ciaurriz, did come out of the accident alive. In the documentary they explain why it was so important to bring that issue forward posthumously., a song of which Nino had only written the chorus, but would end up taking shape, after his death, with the arrangements of one of his closest accomplices, Juan Carlos Calderón. “This song injects you with so much vitality that it is clear that this has to be a stimulus for many people. “That’s something very big,” says Juesas.
The great Nino song that will never be heard
Made from scraps and songs that were carefully preserved, at the end of 1973, a few months after his death, it was published …and volume 5 (1973), Nino Bravo’s posthumous album. A work that includes successes such as America, America and Laura and Mona Lisa, versions of songs by Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole.
For that same album, Nino had also been working on an idea to cover the Hymn to love of Edith Piaf. Something they also talked about on that last car trip. In Nino Bravo, live (2023), Pepe Juesas says that the musician started humming the melody of that song. No one will ever know what he could have done with it, because it never materialized in any way, But some of the members of her group who did hear her say that her particular hymn to love was “overwhelming.”. An adjective that persists to remember all of his work. We are left, of course, with his hymn to life, Live.
Lyrics of Live
Thinking about the past and being happyBeing happyTalking to yourself and smilingSmiling
Dreaming that there is love among menThere is loveIt is living, it is living, it is living
Crying because you are afflicted with great painGreat painFighting to achieve an illusionWhat an illusion
Laugh because happiness reached youIt reached youIt is living, it is living, it is living
Think, talk, dreamCry, fight, laughFeel, love, sufferThat’s living, living
Think, speak, dreamCry, fight, laughFeel, love, sufferDream what was ours
Drink in the passionsAlways walk forwardEven if you have to suffer
That’s living That’s living, living
Think, talk, dreamCry, fight, laughFeel, love, suffer
Dreaming of what was ours Drinking in the passions Always walking forward Even if you have to suffer
That is living
2023-12-19 23:17:11
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