Enrique Ortiz de Landázuri Izarduy, better known as Enrique Bunbury, was bo… Read Full Bio ↴Enrique Ortiz de Landázuri Izarduy, better known as Enrique Bunbury, was born August 11, 1967 in Zaragoza, Spain. He got involved in music in the early 1980s, making his debut in a high school band called Apocalipsis, and later played along with Proceso Entrópico. In 1984 Bunbury joined a group called Zumo de Vidrio, debuting as a lead vocalist. After adopting the nickname of Bunbury, taken from an Oscar Wilde novel, the musician teamed up with Héroes del Silencio, becoming a major number in the Spanish rock scene.

The band eventually broke up in 1996 and Bunbury started his solo career in 1997 with a techno album, Radical Sonora with his new band: Copi (piano), del Moran (bass), Ramón Gacias (drums) and former Héroes del Silencio guitarrist Alan Boguslavsky.

Recognized by his wish to always reinvent himself, Bunbury released in 1999 the album Pequeño, which sounded much different than anything he did before. His band also suffered changes, Boguslavsky was replaced by Rafa Domínguez, and the new faces, Ana Belén Estaje (violin), Luis Miguel Romero (percussion), Javier Iñigo, Javier García Vega & Antonio Ríos in the metal instruments.

This band was known as the "Huracán Ambulante" ("Rambling Hurricane") and recorded with Bunbury the rest of his solo discography, (except Antonio Ríos).

In 2005, after 8 years together, Bunbury dissolved the band and declared that will record a new album in 2006 only with his voice and a piano. Nevertheless, in early 2006 he recorded an album with spanish artist Nacho Vegas by the name of El tiempo de las cerezas.

His old band, Héroes del Silencio, reunited in 2007 for a short tour which visited Latin America, United States and Spain.

Nueve
Enrique Bunbury Lyrics

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Hilaré un lazo sagrado
Entre la chica, la ciudad y yo
Así rimarán nuestros pasos
Y la intensidad será la solución
Oro es su piel
Nueve es su nombre
Y pongo a sus pies mis venas
Para que mi sangre sirva de limosna

Y lo que abrevien las distancias
Lo engrandezca mi memoria

Los demás son los otros
Ajenos a nuestra máscara perfecta
Por lo menos ya no estamos tan solos
Rompe mis ataduras y me liberas
Oro es su piel
Nueve es su nombre
Y pongo a sus pies mis venas
Para que mi sangre sirva de limosna
Y lo que abrevien las distancias
Lo engrandezca mi memoria

Oro es su piel
Nueve es su nombre
Y pongo a sus pies mis venas
Para que mi sangre sirva de limosna

Y lo que abrevien las distancias
Llo engrandezca mi memoria

Overall Meaning

En "Nueve," Enrique Bunbury sings about a profound connection he feels with a woman he refers to as "Nueve" and the city they inhabit. He describes tying a sacred bond between the three of them, creating a rhythmic sync between their steps, where their intensity becomes the solution. He puts his veins at her feet, offering his blood as alms, to bridge the distance between them and enlarge their memories.

Bunbury then speaks about the rest of the world as being outsiders to their perfect mask, which somewhat relieves their loneliness, but he looks to Nueve to break his chains and set him free. He offers his blood as an act of devotion, and Nueve becomes the mediator between him and the place they live in.

The song seems to imply a crucial relationship between oneself, the beloved, and the city, and how these three elements can create moments where boundaries between them disappear. Bunbury's lyrics talk about giving oneself entirely to these three aspects, and how that act can bring about a sense of liberation.

Line by Line Meaning

Hilaré un lazo sagrado
I will weave a sacred bond

Entre la chica, la ciudad y yo
Between the girl, the city and myself

Así rimarán nuestros pasos
So our steps will rhyme

Y la intensidad será la solución
And intensity will be the solution

Oro es su piel
Her skin is gold

Nueve es su nombre
Her name is Nine

Y pongo a sus pies mis venas
And I lay my veins at her feet

Para que mi sangre sirva de limosna
So my blood can serve as an offering

Y lo que abrevien las distancias
And what shortens the distances

Lo engrandezca mi memoria
Will enlarge my memory

Los demás son los otros
The others are everyone else