Camilo Sesto
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Camilo Blanes Cortés better known as Camilo Sesto, is a Spanish singer , composer and producer who enjoyed fame during the 1970s and the 1980s. Probably the most prominent male voice of Spanish pop music at that time, he became famous for his powerful, carefully arranged ballads, pop
and rock
.
He has the world record of more number ones in the world: 52 overall and 18 in the list of 40 Principales
.
on September 16, 1946. Sesto sang in two pop bands during the 1960s and won a contest in a Madrid
TV show. He also played a part in the Spanish filming of Shakespeare's Hamlet
. Later, he teamed up with singer and producer Juan Pardo.
Camilo Sesto took a rest in 1987 to take care of his newborn son.
Camilo has or had homes in Torrelodones
, near Madrid
and Coconut Grove (Miami area), Florida
.
and started to learn English
,is now his own producer and other artist's. After successfully starring in the Spanish version of Andrew Lloyd Webber
's musical Jesus Christ Superstar
in 1975, Sesto began to gain fame as a singer and composer. Year after year, he reached the top of the charts all over America, Latin America and in Spain, leaving us classics like Algo de mí (Something of me) (1972), Amor...Amar (Love.. to love) (1972), Melina (1975), a song about Melina Mercouri
, ¿Quieres ser mi amante? (Do you want to be my lover?) (1974), Jamás (Never) (1975), El Amor de mi Vida (The Love of my Life ) (1978), Perdóname
(Forgive me) (1981), the latter being his most successful hit and other as Donde estés, con quien estés, Amor de mujer (1984) and the classic Amor mio ¿que me has hecho? (My love, what have you done to me?) (1991), number one in the Billboard magazine, plus several hits around the whole world. During the 70s,80s Sesto created many hit songs and a great fortune, and almost every song came from his sole inspiration, being the author, interpreter, composer, and producer of all of his works. They catapulted him as a consummate multi-talented artist.
With an extraordinary reputation between the years 1980 and 1991 he composed the song and sang the theme for Colorina with Lucía Méndez
. Being Colorina one of the most successful telenovela
s in the 80s, he also produces for it a pop ballad hit album named Cerca de ti. It was a smash hit.
His reputation penetrates the borders and reaches the apex of the success in countries as The United States, Japan, Germany, Latin América, Italy, Portugal and everywhere in Europe where the quality of his shows are classified by the critics as majestic, from this moment the world already acclaims it like "Camilo Sesto Superstar".
During the last decades Sesto recorded some beautiful ballads.
Camilo sings mostly in Castilian Spanish
, but has also recorded songs in Catalan
- Valencian
, English, Italian and Portuguese as well. He has also recorded some albums in English.
After recovering from a liver transplant, in 2003 he managed to make a successful comeback with his album Alma
, surprising the audience with the song "Mola mazo" ("It rules") in an exercise of self-assertion.
The Alma CD includes some songs in English: Selections from The Phantom of the Opera
and a duet with Andrea Bronston.
Camilo Sesto returned to the scenario back in 2004 in to the Viña del Mar International Song Festival
in Chile.
His old fans and new ones cheered the great Spaniard as he sang songs from his catalog. By the end of the festival Sesto left Viña del Mar 2004 with many awards.
His last musical work was the singing of Bujalance
football team hymn (a Spanish football team).
To this day, Camilo Sesto has sold more than 175 million albums worldwide.
On September 2009 he announced that he will play his retirement shows where he will say goodbye to his fans. He toured the America,Latin America (U.S., Mexico ,Peru ,Chile,Ecuador,Colombia, and other). In October 2010, he gave his last two concerts in Madrid, which were recorded to be released as his first (and last) live album.
As of May 2011, Camilo Sesto started his farewell tour "La Gira del Adiós":
May 28 Camilo Sesto is honored in Las Vegas and was awarded the prize, "Maximo Orgullo Hispano" is proclaimed "Dia De Camilo Sesto" in Nevada.
14-May, USA, Miami, American Airlines Arena
15-May, USA, Los Ángeles, Gibson Amphitheatre
20-May, USA, Houston, Toyota Center
21-May, USA, El Paso TX, County Coliseum
22-May, USA, San Diego, Cricket Wireless
26-May: Puerto Rico
, San Juan
- Coliseo de Puerto Rico, José Miguel Agrelot
28-May, USA, Las Vegas, Planet Hollywood
29-May, USA, Chicago, Rosemont Theater
04-Jun, USA, New Jersey, Izod Center
.He also has published several collections of hits, including some double CD, have been record sales.
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
and rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
.
He has the world record of more number ones in the world: 52 overall and 18 in the list of 40 Principales
Los 40 Principales
Los 40 Principales is the main musical radio station in Spain with more than 4,000,000 listeners. The station was founded in 1966 and in 2006 the station celebrated its 40th anniversary...
.
Life
Camilo Sesto was born in Alcoi, a city located in the province of AlicanteAlicante
Alicante or Alacant is a city in Spain, the capital of the province of Alicante and of the comarca of Alacantí, in the south of the Valencian Community. It is also a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city of Alicante proper was 334,418, estimated , ranking as the second-largest...
on September 16, 1946. Sesto sang in two pop bands during the 1960s and won a contest in a Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
TV show. He also played a part in the Spanish filming of Shakespeare's Hamlet
Hamlet
The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
. Later, he teamed up with singer and producer Juan Pardo.
Camilo Sesto took a rest in 1987 to take care of his newborn son.
Camilo has or had homes in Torrelodones
Torrelodones
Torrelodones is a municipality in the northwest of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, Spain. It is situated 29 kilometers northwest from the city of Madrid...
, near Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
and Coconut Grove (Miami area), Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
.
Career
In 1970, Sesto moved to Los AngelesLos Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
and started to learn English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
,is now his own producer and other artist's. After successfully starring in the Spanish version of Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...
's musical Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Tim Rice. The musical started off as a rock opera concept recording before its first staging on Broadway in 1971...
in 1975, Sesto began to gain fame as a singer and composer. Year after year, he reached the top of the charts all over America, Latin America and in Spain, leaving us classics like Algo de mí (Something of me) (1972), Amor...Amar (Love.. to love) (1972), Melina (1975), a song about Melina Mercouri
Melina Mercouri
Melina Mercouri , born as Maria Amalia Mercouri was a Greek actress, singer and politician.As an actress she made her film debut in Stella and met international success with her performances in Never on Sunday, Phaedra, Topkapi and Promise at Dawn...
, ¿Quieres ser mi amante? (Do you want to be my lover?) (1974), Jamás (Never) (1975), El Amor de mi Vida (The Love of my Life ) (1978), Perdóname
Perdóname
Perdóname is the debut album by Panamian singer-songwriter Eddy Lover. It was released on August 12, 2008. The first single of the album was titled "Luna", which has garnered much air-play on the radio.-Track listing :-Charts:...
(Forgive me) (1981), the latter being his most successful hit and other as Donde estés, con quien estés, Amor de mujer (1984) and the classic Amor mio ¿que me has hecho? (My love, what have you done to me?) (1991), number one in the Billboard magazine, plus several hits around the whole world. During the 70s,80s Sesto created many hit songs and a great fortune, and almost every song came from his sole inspiration, being the author, interpreter, composer, and producer of all of his works. They catapulted him as a consummate multi-talented artist.
With an extraordinary reputation between the years 1980 and 1991 he composed the song and sang the theme for Colorina with Lucía Méndez
Lucía Méndez
Lucía Leticia Méndez Pérez is a Mexican telenovela and film actress, top model and singer that has sold over 10 million records world wide.- Early success :...
. Being Colorina one of the most successful telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
s in the 80s, he also produces for it a pop ballad hit album named Cerca de ti. It was a smash hit.
His reputation penetrates the borders and reaches the apex of the success in countries as The United States, Japan, Germany, Latin América, Italy, Portugal and everywhere in Europe where the quality of his shows are classified by the critics as majestic, from this moment the world already acclaims it like "Camilo Sesto Superstar".
During the last decades Sesto recorded some beautiful ballads.
Camilo sings mostly in Castilian Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, but has also recorded songs in Catalan
Catalan language
Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
- Valencian
Valencian
Valencian is the traditional and official name of the Catalan language in the Valencian Community. There are dialectical differences from standard Catalan, and under the Valencian Statute of Autonomy, the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua has been established as its regulator...
, English, Italian and Portuguese as well. He has also recorded some albums in English.
After recovering from a liver transplant, in 2003 he managed to make a successful comeback with his album Alma
Alma
- Print media :* Alma , a 1922 novel by Oswald de Andrade* Alma , a drama by Joshua Sobol about Alma Mahler-Werfel* Alma Cogan , a 1991 novel by Gordon Burn...
, surprising the audience with the song "Mola mazo" ("It rules") in an exercise of self-assertion.
The Alma CD includes some songs in English: Selections from The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux.The music was composed by Lloyd Webber, and most lyrics were written by Charles Hart, with additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. Alan Jay Lerner was an early collaborator,...
and a duet with Andrea Bronston.
Camilo Sesto returned to the scenario back in 2004 in to the Viña del Mar International Song Festival
Viña del Mar International Song Festival
The Viña del Mar International Song Festival is a music festival held annually during February since 1960 in Viña del Mar, Chile. It is considered the most important musical event in Latin America....
in Chile.
His old fans and new ones cheered the great Spaniard as he sang songs from his catalog. By the end of the festival Sesto left Viña del Mar 2004 with many awards.
His last musical work was the singing of Bujalance
Bujalance
Bujalance is a town located in the heart of Andalucia, southern Spain, in the province of Córdoba. , it had 7910 inhabitants.Its name is derived Arabic term Bury al Hans. Among its monuments and places of interest, there exist its Moorish castle , the church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción),...
football team hymn (a Spanish football team).
To this day, Camilo Sesto has sold more than 175 million albums worldwide.
On September 2009 he announced that he will play his retirement shows where he will say goodbye to his fans. He toured the America,Latin America (U.S., Mexico ,Peru ,Chile,Ecuador,Colombia, and other). In October 2010, he gave his last two concerts in Madrid, which were recorded to be released as his first (and last) live album.
As of May 2011, Camilo Sesto started his farewell tour "La Gira del Adiós":
May 28 Camilo Sesto is honored in Las Vegas and was awarded the prize, "Maximo Orgullo Hispano" is proclaimed "Dia De Camilo Sesto" in Nevada.
14-May, USA, Miami, American Airlines Arena
15-May, USA, Los Ángeles, Gibson Amphitheatre
Gibson Amphitheatre
The Gibson Amphitheatre is a theatre located in Universal City, California, USA. It seats up to 6,189 for concerts, including 6,089 chairback seats...
20-May, USA, Houston, Toyota Center
Toyota Center
Toyota Center is the name of several arenas in the United States:*Toyota Center in Houston, Texas is home to the Houston Rockets*Toyota Center in Kennewick, Washington*Tim's Toyota Center in Prescott Valley, Arizona...
21-May, USA, El Paso TX, County Coliseum
22-May, USA, San Diego, Cricket Wireless
26-May: 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...
, San Juan
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...
- Coliseo de Puerto Rico, José Miguel Agrelot
José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum
The José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum, officially named "Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot" , is the biggest indoor arena in Puerto Rico dedicated to entertainment...
28-May, USA, Las Vegas, Planet Hollywood
Planet Hollywood
Planet Hollywood, a restaurant inspired by the popular portrayal of Hollywood, was launched in New York on October 22, 1991, with the backing of Hollywood stars Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.-History:...
29-May, USA, Chicago, Rosemont Theater
04-Jun, USA, New Jersey, Izod Center
Discography
- 1971: Algo de mí
- 1972: Sólo un hombre
- 1973: Camilo Sesto
- 1974: Camilo
- 1975: Amor Libre
- 1975: Jesucristo Superstar
- 1976: Memorias
- 1977: Rasgos
- 1977: Entre Amigos
- 1977: Look in the Eye
- 1978: Sentimientos
- 1979: Horas de Amor
- 1980: Amaneciendo
- 1981: Más y más
- 1982: Camilo (en inglés)
- 1983: Con Ganas
- 1984: Amanecer/84
- 1985: Tuyo
- 1986: Agenda de Baile
- 1991: A Voluntad del Cielo
- 1992: Huracán de Amor
- 1994: Amor sin Vértigo
- 2000: El Fantasma de la Ópera
- 2002: Alma
- 2004: Camilo Sesto Nº 1
- 2005: Jesucristo Superstar (30th Anniversary Edition)
- 2006: Camilo Sesto Canta a Bujalance
.He also has published several collections of hits, including some double CD, have been record sales.
External links
- International Jose Guilermo Carrillo Foundation
- siemprecamilosesto.com
- www.camilosestoweb.com (pagina dedicada al cantante y compositor)
- http://camilosestonumero1.galeon.com/
- http://www.famososvalencianos.com/camilo-sesto/