Heroes del Silencio started in 1984 as a band named Zumo de Vidrio. The original members were Enrique Bunbury, Juan Valdivia and his brother, and Pedro Andreu. Bunbury was originally a bass player but after Juan Valdivia heard him singing a David Bowie song and told him that he had a great voice, Bunbury became the vocalist. Later on, Joaquin Cardiel joins the line-up.
The band changed their name to Heroes del Silencio in 1986. At first they played in public places and made demos but their break came when they participated in a music contest in Salamanca and won second place - an EMI producer, Gustavo Montesano, saw the band in the contest and some time later, at a concert in Sala En Bruto, he signed the band.
Their first EP, Héroe de Leyenda, was released in in 1987 and sold 30,000 copies. The following year, the album El Mar No Cesa was released, featuring the songs "Mar Adentro", "Agosto" and "El Estanque", and sold 100,000 copies. The supporting tour followed in 1989, documented on the limited edition live album En Directo.
In 1990 they released Senderos de Traicion, their best-selling album with 2 million copies, including 400,000 copies in the first two weeks in Spain alone. The following year they started the tour "Senda 91" and released another live album, Senda 91. 1992 saw the most important CD in their career, El Espiritu del Vino. They sold 600,000 copies of this album which was played throughout America. They followed this with a tour for El Espiritu del Vino. In 1993, Alan Bogulavsky joined the band.
Due to tensions within the band, they took a hiatus and went to Benasque to take a vacation and heal the rifts within the group. After this break they gained a new producer, Bob Ezrin (Lou Reed, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Alice Cooper, Kiss, etc.) and in 1995 released Avalancha, widely considered their best album. Avalancha was more hard rock than previous albums, with songs like "Avalancha", "Deshacer El Mundo" and "Iberia Sumergida". The album was followed by the "Avalancha" tour in 1995 and 1996, which produced the live album Para Siempre.
The band split in 1996 though this did not prevent the release of the Rarezas album in 1998.
2007 Reunion tour
20 years after their first album, and 10 years after they split up, the band announced a ten concerts reunion tour, taking in Guatemala City, Buenos Aires, Monterrey, Ciudad de México, Los Ángeles, Sevilla, Zaragoza and Valencia. For this tour, guitarist Gonzalo Valdivia (Juan Valdivia's brother) replaced former band member Alan Bogulavsky. More than 10,000 people attended each concert. The tour was followed by another live album, Tour 2007.
After the tour, singer-songwriter Enrique Bunbury announced the definitive split of the band and that he would be focusing in his solo career.
Bendecida 2
Héroes del Silencio Lyrics
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se pintarán de tristeza
y enjaularé mi corazón
entre tus huesos.
Y en tu ausencia las paredes
se pintarán de tristeza
y enjaularé mi corazón
In Héroes del Silencio's song Bendecida 2, the lyrics speak to the pain of being without the one you love. The singer expresses that in the absence of their lover, even the walls around them seem to reflect the sadness they feel. They will cage their heart within the bones of their lover in an attempt to stay connected to them, despite the physical distance between them.
The metaphor of the walls being painted with sadness is powerful because it illustrates how the emotions of the singer are so strong that they can alter the environment around them. By "enjauling" their heart between the bones of their beloved, the singer implies that they may be trapped in their love, unable to move on or find release from their pain.
Overall, these lyrics portray a sense of longing and desperation, where the singer's overwhelming emotions seem to govern their entire experience. Despite the painful nature of these lyrics, they are powerfully written and capture the essence of unrequited love.
Line by Line Meaning
Y en tu ausencia las paredes
In your absence, the walls will be filled with sadness
se pintarán de tristeza
they will be painted with sadness
y enjaularé mi corazón
and I will lock up my heart
entre tus huesos.
amongst your bones.
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