The artist leaves the stage. At 74, he has 42 with Manuela Vargas, with whom he has two children and an extensive heritage
José Luis Perales retires from the stage
This past Friday, José Luis Perales announced his farewell tour. You can hardly say goodbye who will always be there, and it will be difficult in the future to prevent it from sounding anywhere. Why are you leaving - the title of his first hit song, for Jeanette, which today has a meaning of the most suitable, at least for the fans- or the everlasting And how is he. But yes, Perales leaves, and we know why: a few weeks after he turns 75 he means goodbye to the stage and promises to be on tour until the end of 2020. From that moment, he will not return to the direct , although surely he will continue writing songs.
We could ask ourselves why he had not done it before, since Perales has traditionally not been a man who has liked the hustle or complicated things - a simple detail: in all his records, the cover is a portrait of him, as if not it was necessary to turn around simple things, as if there was no need to reinvent the spoon. His life could have a John Ford movie title: the quiet man.
Born in Castejón (Cuenca) in 1945, his passage around the world would have been discreet if it had not been because in his curriculum as a composer there are enough memorable ballads to mark several generations and, as Chiquito de la Calzada would say, tiling two quarters of bath. We said that he is the author of Why you leave , but also of Marinero de Luces , which Isabel Pantoja endorsed. He wrote for Mocedades and Miguel Bosé , for Raphael and Paloma San Basilio , even for children's bands of the 80s like Parchís or Potitos - the tuning of the educational series Once upon a time, man , for example; the music was from Beethoven (the third movement of his Septimine, opus 20 ), but the adaptation of the lyrics completely his. His specialty was the romantic folk song and he never dropped his rings for it.
That he has been a calm man has never been questioned by Perales: he always explained that the bulk of his songs, his lyrics and even his only novel - The Potter's Daughter (Plaza & Janés, 2015) - he wrote them in his retirement from Cuenca , in the cabin attached to one of its properties in the countryside, where you also take long walks or enter to calm the bad moods or anger of the moment. We have him for a calm and thoughtful man, although in some interviews he has been in charge of shading him, explaining that if his wife spoke we would completely change our favorable appreciation towards his supposed good-natured side.
He married Manuela Vargas in 1977 . "When we started dating, I was sure that I would be very happy with her," he said, and his intuition did not fail him. The fights , he explains, have been told and trivial. Not only has he been the only love of his life and the mother of his two children, -Pablo and María , born a few years after the bond; He is today a record producer and she studied architecture and directs the design and interior design company Mapstudio-, but also her great emotional support and the guardian of her personal and professional interests. Manuela is an administrator of the company Fibula SL, which manages the income of the musical activity of Perales, and together they have a dozen real estate properties between Cuenca, Valencia and Madrid, distributed among rustic estates, floors and parking spaces, most of them acquired from 1983, after the success of And how is he, which is when his career accelerated seriously.
It was hard for Perales to start. At the end of the 60s, when he was still a student - in Seville, where he entered the university to study industrial engineering - he built his instruments in a Salesian workshop and joined the prickly pear , an institution that was then well seen and which He was able to help conveniently thanks to his mastery of the lute, guitar and other string instruments. Then, in the same Seville, he appeared at his first young promises contests and met the record producer Rafael Trabucchelli, who, attracted by his talent for intonation and arrangements for ballads, offered him a contract that led him to compose his first songs to order ( Why are you leaving ) and, already in 1974, his first album, Jealousy of my guitar.
From there, Perales's career did not stop growing professionally and personally until he conquered omnipresence in 1982 with the most famous jealousy song in Spanish of all ever written, and how is he. A profitable song in every way not only because of the copyright, but because of the privileged situation that left him as a composer on commission and well valued author in the industry: in 1987 he signed a contract with CBS for 10 years for which he received - it is said - one billion pesetas of the time. Wise administrator of his estate and never given to luxuries, Perales has lived comfortably from his job and if he retires now it is because he wants, not because he needs an extra for retirement. A retirement, in any case, deserved and well earned.
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