Lost your password?Enter your email.You will receive an email to create a new password.The composer of hits such as “En carne viva”, “Si tú te dares” and “Se nos roto el amor” will release a new album on Friday, October 14.Like a good "father", the famous Spanish composer Manuel Alejandro cannot choose a favorite among the hundreds of songs that he has registered, but he does have a favorite interpreter and the chosen one "knows it", as he confides to EFE.«Yes, I have it, of course, and very clearly.The fact is that he knows it," says this mysterious author of hits like En carne viva, I am that one, Love was broken for us or If you dare, sung by greats of music in Spanish such as Raphael, José José, Nino Bravo, Luis Miguel, Emmanuel, Rocío Jurado or José Luis Rodríguez.When he writes a song for an artist he always "falls in love" with him, but there is a lasting love and when asked if he is in Spain or America, he says in an enigmatic way: "he is in the external world".At 90 years old, the "song writer", as he likes to define himself, has crossed the Atlantic to receive in Miami a La Musa award for Living Legend - "half alive", he says with Andalusian grace - and offer two live performances in Santo Domingo and Mexico.Like the protagonist of the Chabuca Grande song, Manuel Alejandro is a "gentleman of fine stature", not only in appearance but also in words and feelings.The composer, arranger, producer and lately vocalist interrupts his piano exercises in a recording studio in Miami to speak with EFE and from the outset and in response to a question he declares himself an "absolute Americanist from the beginning."According to him, before dedicating himself to composing, he was already "in love" with the songs of Chabuca Granda and the Mexicans Agustín Lara and Consuelo Velázquez, among others.In fact, he says that one of the songs that he would have liked to be his is Que seas feliz, by the Mexican composer Consuelo Velázquez.After so many years of relationship with the singers and the public of Latin America, he allows himself to boast of knowing what they like: the "soft word" and that "things are insinuated".Although later he rectifies: «If I knew exactly how to write a song, I would write many more».There are so many that he does not dare to venture a number, but he says that they have assured him that he has more than 600 registered.What is certain is that love dominates his songbook and that he wants the words to be like "screams."His first song spoke of a disappointment in love and was to a certain extent autobiographical, as he recalls in a conversation in which he not only remembers, because he is still a man of projects.On October 14, an album called Counting My Songs containing 13 songs goes on sale on digital platforms.It is the result of how good he felt at the first concert he has given in his entire career, at the Teatro Real in Madrid, he says.As he recalls, the rain ruined his previous attempts to sing in public, in his native Jerez de la Frontera, when he wanted to sing a saeta one Holy Week, and at a festival in Benidorm when he was "already mature."He swore to himself that if he sang again he would do it "under the roof" and that is how he did it at the Teatro Real in Madrid and now he will do it at the National Theater in Santo Domingo on November 4 and at the National Auditorium of Mexico on the 9th of that month.Manuel Alejandro, father of seven children of flesh and blood not of scores, says he has been "absolutely happy" in his sentimental life.His second wife, Purificación Casas, with whom he created some songs, passed away in 2021, as he sadly recalls during the interview, in which he was accompanied by two of his five daughters and one of his two sons. the.When asked if he has lived love as intensely as he has written in his songs or has only imagined it, he answers so that everyone can guess: "If I have not lived it, I have had it or wanted it."In his opinion, as in love, songs are written "when you go, not when you come back.""The principle of love is wonderful," he stresses.As to whether songs of unhappy or unrequited love are more popular than those of love overflowing with happiness, he says that the ones that sell the most are those that contain something that is not said in their lyrics, "another meaning."And he mentions the phrase "I haven't felt anything doing it with you for a long time," from his song "I'm sorry, my love," written for the late Spanish song star Rocío Jurado."Are you saying that what sells the most is sex?" EFE asks him and Alejandro replies: "of course", but the "beautiful sex".Manuel Alejandro concludes that current urban genre musicians are much more explicit than him."The mattress and the pillow are the order of the day," he stresses.He may also interest you: