Genre
Synth-pop and new wave, with strong electronic and post-punk influences. The album marked a decisive break from Bosé's earlier teen pop image, drawing on the sonic vocabulary of British artists of the time and placing a far greater emphasis on synthesizers, rhythm, and textural density.
Release
Released on November 7, 1984, by CBS and Epic Records.
Production
Produced and arranged by Roberto Colombo, an Italian musician and producer who was among the leading figures in Italian electronic pop at the time. Colombo also co-wrote several of the album's tracks.
Reception
Bandido was a major commercial success, selling 100,000 copies in Spain in 1984 alone — a personal sales record for Bosé at the time. It produced three singles: "Sevilla", "Amante Bandido", and "Lento", with the first two topping the Spanish airplay charts. "Amante Bandido" became one of the most widely circulated Spanish music videos of its era and reached number one across Spain and Latin America.
Miguel Bosé
Miguel Bosé (born Luis Miguel Luchino Dominguín Bosé on April 3, 1956, in Panama City, Panama) is a Spanish-Italian pop singer, songwriter, and actor. The son of the Italian actress Lucía Bosè and the Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín, he grew up in an environment in which Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway were family friends, and the film director Luchino Visconti was his godfather. He began acting professionally at fifteen and turned to music in 1975, signing with CBS in 1977. His first album, Linda, that same year marked the beginning of a career that would make him one of the dominant pop figures in Spain, Italy, and Latin America during the 1980s. He appeared in Pedro Almodóvar's High Heels (1991) and was honoured as the Latin Recording Academy's Person of the Year in 2013. Over the course of his career he has sold more than 30 million records.
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