Singing to Madrid

Madrid is everyone's city, the place where everyone is welcome.

A perfect place to find inspiration while walking through its streets. From the 70s to the 90s, going through the well-known Movida Madrileña or even in recent years, there have been many artists who have composed songs with Madrid as a common denominator. Songs dedicated to its streets and squares. To the spirit of its people. Or, simply, that they take the capital as an excuse to build a good story. We love Madrid, its people and its songs, so here we leave you our particular compilation of songs from Madrid

"The sky of Madrid"

Yoel López, from the DELUXE group, is a rock musician from Coruña born in 1977 and in love with Madrid. His first two albums in English, but as of 2012, they are interpreted in Spanish. In 2008 within the album "Reconstrucción" he includes the song "El cielo de Madrid" where he discovers its empty streets, hostile streets that he never wants to leave, its bars and the lonely souls of its customers.

"Madrid", by Pereza, a Spanish rock group formed by Ruben and Leiva (cousins) until 2011, when they began their careers separately. They left six albums on the market, including "Animals", released in 2005. Hand in hand with their love, in the song "Madrid", we visit emblematic places of the city such as Casa Paco or Siroco, the terraces of Antón Martín or the bars of Tirso de Molina.

"One, two and three"

Although of Basque origins, Patxi Andion, controversial singer-songwriter of the troubled 70s, was born in Madrid where he collaborated in various anti-fascist organizations. After a long musical career and numerous albums in 2019, he lost his life in a traffic accident.

In the song "Uno, dos y tres" Patxi Andion reflects us the reality of the famous Madrid Rastro from the 80s, the one he knows so much about, where mostly stolen objects are sold. He tells us about his salespeople, true life-seekers trying to trick the customer into getting some money to eat. They say that the well-known chorus of the song was given to the singer-songwriter one morning by an antiquarian when he arrived at his studio in El Rastro, he saw a chair in the trash that he decided to take what the antiquarian told him "one, two and three ... .what you don't want for El Rastro is "

"In the streets of Madrid"

Loquillo, a singer from Barcelona born in 1960 and who did not start his solo career until mid-2007, sings in Madrid accompanied by the band Los Trogloditas.

In 1984, in the middle of the Madrid scene, Loquillo released his album "The rhythm of the garage" in which the song "On the streets of Madrid" is included. A new art scene was emerging and it created its own culture. "Madrid ...... There is only one secret that leads me here, that silence has died in the streets of Madrid"

"In the shadow of a lion"

Ana Belén, born in Madrid in 1951 and with a long history with more than forty films, some thirty plays and more than thirty-five records. In 2004 Joaquin Sabina gave her the lyrics of "In the shadow of a lion" so that she could give him a voice.

It tells us the story of a psychiatric patient from Ciempozuelo who escapes to see his beloved Cibeles, although this is the protagonist of the song, other emblematic places are also mentioned such as the Central Bank, the English Court or the famous lottery administration of Mrs. Manolita.

"I'm going back to Madrid"

Ismael Serrano, singer-songwriter from Madrid born in 1974 who collects the influences of Serrat, Aute and Sabina and is part of the new generation of singer-songwriters who appeared in the 90s.

In 2006 he published his seventh album called "El viaje de Rosetta" which includes the song "Vuelvo a Madrid", a theme that addresses emotion, impatience to return home, to return to Madrid. Lavapies, its booths, its hookah fruit, its explosion of color.

"I get off in Atocha" and "Let's say I'm talking about Madrid"

Joaquin Sabina, the Jaén singer-songwriter is one of those who has dedicated the most songs to his beloved Madrid, undoubtedly the most emblematic of all, and to a hymn, "Let's say I speak of Madrid." Many years later he would give us a new vision of the city in "Yo me bajo en Atocha" where he travels from north to south and from east to west, mentioning the most characteristic places of the capital, "rap", "" Pasarela Cibeles "," Torre Picaso "," Tascas de Chamberi "..... and of course" his Atleti ".

In 1981 the album "La Mandragora" went on sale, an album recorded live by Alberto Pérez, Javier Krahe and Joaquín Sabina in the basement of the mythical Madrid bar where they performed located in the Cava Baja of the charismatic La Latina neighborhood of Madrid. . The album that shared a name with the bar already included his "Let's talk about Madrid" where through metaphors he describes the city, drawing its inhabitants and its streets and how they change over the years. Forty years later it is still one of the anthems of Madrid.