Baptized as Felipe Antonio Pirela Moron, was the eighth one of the children… Read Full Bio ↴Baptized as Felipe Antonio Pirela Moron, was the eighth one of the children of the marriage conformed by Felipe Pirela Monsalve who was bricklayer and Lucia Moron de Pirela, who was housewife and merchant, besides fan to the artistic expressions. From boy, the future interpreter already showed interest in the song being supported by its so much mother in the musical learning, as in its first actions in radio. In fact, at the age of 13 of age, next to two of his brothers and neighbors of the neighborhood marabino The Empedrao, conforms the group The Happy Boys that touched in diverse localities of Maracaibo boleros fashionable positions by interpreters such as the Alfredo Sadel and the Chilean Lucho Gatica.

In 1957 he works in the radial spaces of a radio station marabina and he enters in a space of fans in a television show that then he transmitted the televisora Radio Caracas Television, obtaining the third place. The fact that the businesses televisoras Venezuelan even to lack video recording teams, he impeded that his first actions remained registered for the posterity. To the following year, is one of the first artists that acted in the first one televisora regional Venezuelan, the zuliana Waves of the Lago TV of ephemeral existence. It is presented in a space of fans with the orchestra of the musician and Venezuelan composer Juanito Arteta and its action is worth the to be hired as part of the artistic team of the televisora and of the radio station linked to this. He returns to Caracas, in July of 1958 and acts in nightspots, besides the issuing Radio Caracas Radio. Fortunately, these radial incursions yes were so much engravings by the radial radio station, as by fans. Said recordings would see the public light in the year 2006.

Upon returning to Maracaibo, is hired for the orchestra The Pennies, with which is initiated like the professional. Nevertheless, its traffic by this orchestra did not have greater importance recording barely two songs in the engraved only album with this group in 1960, titled Carnival with The Pennies. It is understood that did not have many opportunities in that group, since was one more than the five singers of that orchestra and that complicated its possibilities of to be kept in mind.
Felipe was recognized as the "Bolero Voice" of the famed Orchestra Billo's Caracas Boys, where other singers like El Puma got the opportunity to go on their own as independent singers. Sadly, Felipe was killed in Puerto Rico in what it was considered a Drug Involved Crime.

Yo No Soy Tu Amigo
Felipe Pirela Lyrics

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Yo no soy tu amigo,
yo no soy tu amigo
¿como puedo serlo? si noche tras noche me sueño contigo

Yo no soy tu amigo,
te vivo engañando
te estoy adorando,
yo no soy tú amigo, yo te estoy deseando

Cuando estamos juntos, cuando platicamos
me ves tan tranquilo
y te estoy fingiendo
porque en mis adentros yo me estoy muriendo

Yo no soy tú amigo
jamas podría serlo,
hay que comprenderlo
Si fuera tu amigo no te amara tanto.

Cuando estamos juntos, cuando platicamos
me ves tan tranquilo
y te estoy fingiendo
porque en mis adentros yo me estoy muriendo

Yo no soy tú amigo
jamas podría serlo,

hay que comprenderlo
Si fuera tu amigo no te amara tanto.

Overall Meaning

The song "Yo No Soy Tu Amigo" by Felipe Pirela is a poignant expression of unrequited love. The lyrics resonate with anyone who has been in love with someone who only sees them as a friend. The singer declares that he is not the person's friend because he cannot be friends with someone he loves. He dreams of the person every night and he adores them, despite pretending to be calm and collected when in their company. The singer acknowledges that if he were truly the person's friend, he wouldn't love them as much as he does.

The first verse of the song sets the tone for the singer's conflicted emotions. He repeats the lyric "yo no soy tu amigo" twice, emphasizing that he cannot be the person's friend. He questions how he could be their friend when he dreams of them every night. The second verse continues the theme of deception, with the singer admitting that he is deceiving the person by appearing calm and collected when he is actually dying inside. The third verse repeats the declaration that he cannot be the person's friend, and if he were, he wouldn't love them as much as he does.

The song is a beautiful expression of the pain of unrequited love, and the conflict between friendship and romantic love. The singer's vulnerability and honesty are deeply moving, and the melody reinforces the emotional weight of the lyrics.

Line by Line Meaning

Yo no soy tu amigo,
I am not your friend,

yo no soy tu amigo
I am not your friend

¿como puedo serlo? si noche tras noche me sueño contigo
How can I be your friend? When night after night I dream of you

te vivo engañando
I live deceiving you

te estoy adorando,
I am worshiping you,

yo no soy tú amigo, yo te estoy deseando
I am not your friend, I am desiring you

Cuando estamos juntos, cuando platicamos
When we are together, when we talk

me ves tan tranquilo
You see me so calm

y te estoy fingiendo
And I am pretending to you

porque en mis adentros yo me estoy muriendo
Because inside I am dying

jamas podría serlo,
I could never be it,