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.
El Cuadro
Héroes del Silencio Lyrics
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Algo se ha iluminado
Why en su
Interior las figuras danzan
Me miran fíjamente why se
Agrandan.
Mi cuerpo pesa menos
Elevo.
Las pistolas de warhol
Sin munición
Se
Nubla en mi cerebro la situación.
Rodeado por
Miradas
Algo difuminadas
Why admito los colores de su
Interior
Sufre mi figura una transformación.
why
Aquellos ojos blancos
Formándose a su lado
Me obligan
A sentirme así
Están tras de ti ...
... están tras de
Ti.
The lyrics to Heroes Del Silencio's song "El Cuadro" speak of a surreal and mystical experience of looking at a painting. The singer's eyes are drawn to the painting, and he feels as though something has illuminated within in him upon gazing at it. Within the painting, the figures begin to dance and grow, staring back at the singer with intensity. As he continues to look, the singer feels his body become lighter and as if he is elevating. The guns in the painting fade to nothingness as the situation becomes hazy in the singer's mind.
The singer is surrounded by blurred and obscure figures and admits to taking in the colors of the painting's interior, feeling a transformation in his own figure. White eyes form next to the painting, and the singer is compelled to feel as they do. The lyrics suggest an otherworldly experience, where the viewer of a painting is transported into a fantastical realm where everything becomes alive and magical.
Line by Line Meaning
Mis ojos van al cuadro
I am looking at the painting
Algo se ha iluminado
Something has lit up
En su Interior las figuras danzan
The figures inside the painting are dancing
Me miran fíjamente why se Agrandan.
They stare at me and grow larger
Mi cuerpo pesa menos
My body feels lighter
Siento que me Elevo.
I feel like I'm floating
Las pistolas de warhol Sin munición Se Nubla en mi cerebro la situación.
The guns in the Warhol painting are empty and my mind becomes cloudy
Rodeado por Miradas Algo difuminadas
Surrounded by blurred looks
Why admito los colores de su Interior Sufre mi figura una transformación.
And I admit the colors of its interior, my figure undergoes a transformation
Aquellos ojos blancos Formándose a su lado Me obligan A sentirme así Están tras de ti ... ... están tras de Ti.
Those white eyes forming next to it force me to feel this way, They're after you... They're after you
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: E. ORTIZ DE LANDAZURY, J. CARDIEL, J. VALDIVIA, P. ANDREU
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