Miguel Blasco
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Miguel Blasco is a musical producer and songwriter. Born in Spain.
When he was 16 years old joins his first rock band and moved to Ibiza
in 1963 through the first years of the musical movement called "beatnic", before the "hippies". He joined on stage Bryan Jones from the Rolling Stones, Willy Brook (drum player for Jimmy Smith
), Emilio Sangaro, Ian Anderson, among others, in the only night club in the island.
Later he appeared on a "Marcofestival" in Barcelona
and began to write musical score for Catalonian films. He also joined Jimi Hendrix
on "Club Babalu" in 1966 and discovered singer-songwriter
Joan Manuel Serrat
.
He was forced to join the army in 1969, staying off the stages for 18 months. When he returned from military duty, he preferred to work on an independent label as a talent scout, moving to London to pursue this. When he returned to Madrid
, he became the disc jockey at the "Club Hotel Barajas" with success.
Years later he joined Ramon Segura on a new label called "Ariola" as Marketing Director and had the opportunity to worked on the first three albums by Camilo Sesto
. His musical experience helped him to win the "Best Marketing Director in Spain" for three years in a row.
Due to his success, other record labels wanted him on the staff, offers from CBS, RCA, Movieplay and Hispavox came along. He decide to join the weakest one: Hispavox, and turned that label into a very successful one, recording albums from José Luis Perales
, Paloma San Basilio
, Raphael
and Bebu Silvetti
as piano player. All this albums hit the #1 spot in Spain, along with another international artists like Eagles and Foreigner
. In only a year, Hispavox became the number one label in Spain. Blasco worked there for nine years.
Hispavox lost the distribution by Warner Bros. Records
and Miguel worked to fill that void, using the advantage that his label had the best recording studio in the country.
Singers like Raphael
, Alberto Cortez
, Paloma San Basilio
, Mecano
, Alaska
, Nacha Pop, Radio Futura, among others, were developed on Hispavox by Blasco.
Blasco later worked with Rafaela Carrá on three albums. In 1984, he decided to retire for a few years, but before this he travelled to Mexico with the Spanish team to compete in "Festival OTI". EMI International purchase Hispavox and offers a contact to Blasco to be producer and artistic manager.
From 1984 to 1994, EMI International was a very strong label with the launching of very strong sellers like Daniela Romo
, Yurí
, Fandango
, Pandora, Tatiana
, Mijares
, Sentidos Opuestos
, Angela Carrasco
, Lucía Méndez
and Nelson Ned
.
Paulina Rubio
wanted to work with Blasco since she was a little girl, and when she got signed by EMI, he produced her first three albums, selling almost 2 million copies.
While he was working on EMI, he developed another artist for Warner Bros. Records
: Rocío Banquells
who sold 1.5 million copies.
He also developed Melody for Televisa
in Mexico with performers like Alejandra Guzmán
and Lucero, selling seven million copies.
Miguel Blasco, developed many new talents, including Omar Alfano and Rudy Pérez. He later became the President for the label "Lideres", from 2001 to 2002.
When he was 16 years old joins his first rock band and moved to Ibiza
Ibiza
Ibiza or Eivissa is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea 79 km off the coast of the city of Valencia in Spain. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands, an autonomous community of Spain. With Formentera, it is one of the two Pine Islands or Pityuses. Its largest cities are Ibiza...
in 1963 through the first years of the musical movement called "beatnic", before the "hippies". He joined on stage Bryan Jones from the Rolling Stones, Willy Brook (drum player for Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith (musician)
Jimmy Smith was a jazz musician whose performances on the Hammond B-3 electric organ helped to popularize this instrument...
), Emilio Sangaro, Ian Anderson, among others, in the only night club in the island.
Later he appeared on a "Marcofestival" in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
and began to write musical score for Catalonian films. He also joined Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
on "Club Babalu" in 1966 and discovered singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
Joan Manuel Serrat
Joan Manuel Serrat
Joan Manuel Serrat i Teresa is a Catalan Spanish singer-songwriter.Serrat is considered one of the most important figures of modern, popular music in both the Spanish and Catalan languages...
.
He was forced to join the army in 1969, staying off the stages for 18 months. When he returned from military duty, he preferred to work on an independent label as a talent scout, moving to London to pursue this. When he returned to 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...
, he became the disc jockey at the "Club Hotel Barajas" with success.
Years later he joined Ramon Segura on a new label called "Ariola" as Marketing Director and had the opportunity to worked on the first three albums by Camilo Sesto
Camilo Sesto
Camilo Blanes Cortés , better known as Camilo Sesto, is a Spanish singer , composer and producer who enjoyed fame during the 1970s and the 1980s...
. His musical experience helped him to win the "Best Marketing Director in Spain" for three years in a row.
Due to his success, other record labels wanted him on the staff, offers from CBS, RCA, Movieplay and Hispavox came along. He decide to join the weakest one: Hispavox, and turned that label into a very successful one, recording albums from José Luis Perales
José Luis Perales
José Luis Perales is a Spanish singer-songwriter and composer who is very popular in Spain and Latin America. He has performed some of his extensive work at Carnegie Hall, New York.-Biography:...
, Paloma San Basilio
Paloma San Basilio
Paloma San Basilio is a Spanish singer. Although she was born in Madrid, at the age of 6 months the family moved to Sevilla , where she was raised till the age of 8...
, Raphael
Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...
and Bebu Silvetti
Bebu Silvetti
Juan Fernando Silvetti Adorno , professionally known as Bebu Silvetti or simply Silvetti, was an Argentine pianist, composer, conductor, arranger and record producer...
as piano player. All this albums hit the #1 spot in Spain, along with another international artists like Eagles and Foreigner
Foreigner (band)
Foreigner is a British-American rock band, originally formed in 1976 by veteran English musicians Mick Jones and ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald along with American vocalist Lou Gramm...
. In only a year, Hispavox became the number one label in Spain. Blasco worked there for nine years.
Hispavox lost the distribution by Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...
and Miguel worked to fill that void, using the advantage that his label had the best recording studio in the country.
Singers like Raphael
Raphael (singer)
For the French singer Raphael see Raphaël HarocheMiguel Rafael Martos Sánchez , often simply referred to as Raphael, is a worldwide acclaimed Spanish singer and television, film and theatre actor...
, Alberto Cortez
Alberto Cortez
Alberto Cortez is an Argentine singer and songwriter. Cortez and his wife live in Madrid.Cortez was born in Rancul, La Pampa Province, Argentina, March 13, 1938. At the age of six entered in the elementary school and at the same time to the conservatory Alberto Williams. He begins to compose songs...
, Paloma San Basilio
Paloma San Basilio
Paloma San Basilio is a Spanish singer. Although she was born in Madrid, at the age of 6 months the family moved to Sevilla , where she was raised till the age of 8...
, Mecano
Mecano
Mecano was a Spanish pop band whose debut coincided with La Movida Madrileña , a sociocultural movement that occurred in Madrid, Spain during the 1980s...
, Alaska
Alaska (singer)
Alaska is a Spanish - Mexican singer, dj, and TV personality famous in Spain and Latin America. She was of the main characters in the so called Movida the cultural movement following the Franco dictatorship in Spain...
, Nacha Pop, Radio Futura, among others, were developed on Hispavox by Blasco.
Blasco later worked with Rafaela Carrá on three albums. In 1984, he decided to retire for a few years, but before this he travelled to Mexico with the Spanish team to compete in "Festival OTI". EMI International purchase Hispavox and offers a contact to Blasco to be producer and artistic manager.
From 1984 to 1994, EMI International was a very strong label with the launching of very strong sellers like Daniela Romo
Daniela Romo
Daniela Romo is a Mexican singer, actress and TV host. Daniela Romo was born Teresita Presmanes Corona in Mexico City to Teresa Corona. Her parents never married, and Daniela and her sister Patricia were raised by their grandmother...
, Yurí
Yuri (Mexican singer)
Yuri is a famous Mexican singer, actress, and TV host. She has maintained a significant presence in the entertainment business in Mexico for the last three decades...
, Fandango
Fandango
Fandango is a lively couple's dance, usually in triple metre, traditionally accompanied by guitars and castanets or hand-clapping . Fandango can both be sung and danced. Sung fandango is usually bipartite: it has an instrumental introduction followed by "variaciones"...
, Pandora, Tatiana
Tatiana
Tatiana is a Slavic female name. The short form of the name is Tanya .The name honors Orthodox Saint Tatiana who was tortured and martyred in the persecutions of Emperor Alexander Severus c.230 in Rome. Saint Tatiana is also considered a patron saint of students...
, Mijares
Mijares
Mijares is a municipality located in the province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census , the municipality has a population of 904 inhabitants....
, Sentidos Opuestos
Sentidos Opuestos
Mexican Latin pop duet Sentidos Opuestos was formed by local producer Miguel Blasco in the early 1990s. Alessandra Rosaldo started singing at the age of 12, soon becoming a backup singer for Latin star Lucero. Joined by Chacho Gaytán, the act released a self-titled debut album in 1993, getting...
, Angela Carrasco
Angela Carrasco
Angela Carrasco is a Dominican singer. Carrasco was one of a group of Latin American divas in the 1970s. This group also included Susana Giménez, Charytín, Iris Chacón, Ednita Nazario, Yolandita Monge and Rocío Dúrcal....
, 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 :...
and Nelson Ned
Nelson Ned
Nelson Ned is a famous Brazilian singer from Ubá, Minas Gerais. Nelson built a solid career as a singer and composer of sentimental, suffering songs, rising to popularity in Brazil and Latin America in 1969 and becoming known internationally, especially in Portugal, France and Spain...
.
Paulina Rubio
Paulina Rubio
Paulina Susana Rubio Rue is a Mexican singer and actress. Rubio achieved international stardom with her fifth studio album, Paulina...
wanted to work with Blasco since she was a little girl, and when she got signed by EMI, he produced her first three albums, selling almost 2 million copies.
While he was working on EMI, he developed another artist for Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...
: Rocío Banquells
Rocío Banquells
María del Rocío Banquells Nuñez , is a Mexican pop singer and actress, best known for her work on television, the stage and cinema of Mexico and Latin America. Her mezzo voice is one of the most versatile voices from Mexico...
who sold 1.5 million copies.
He also developed Melody for Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...
in Mexico with performers like Alejandra Guzmán
Alejandra Guzmán
Alejandra Gabriela Guzmán Pinal , better known as Alejandra Guzmán, is a Latin Grammy Award–winning Mexican rock singer and actress. She has had a dedicated fanbase throughout Latin America since the late 1980s, and is known as the "Queen of Rock" in the Hispanic world...
and Lucero, selling seven million copies.
Miguel Blasco, developed many new talents, including Omar Alfano and Rudy Pérez. He later became the President for the label "Lideres", from 2001 to 2002.