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The secret of Alex Ubago's greatest success: "I wanted to tell her that I missed her"

2022-09-29T10:41:53.087Z


Although in Spain everyone associates him with 'Without fear of anything', the Basque singer-songwriter claims 'Even though I can't see you', his most listened to song


This may be his best love song.

At least the most sincere.

Alex Ubago (Vitoria, 1981) wrote it twenty years ago, in a hotel room in Mexico.

It was his first time on tour and her life had completely changed in just a few months.

What do you want?

, her first album,

it had been such an overwhelming success that, although he had just come of age, he was already packing his bags and playing around the world.

Fulfilling his dream, yes, but far from Donosti, his family, his friends and, above all, far from the love of his life.

“I wrote him a kind of letter from a distance because he missed her so much.

She is one of the most important people for me and at that time she already was, ”he admits, excited, about his wife.

He took a couple of sheets of paper from the desk in the room and, like Bécquer in the letters from his cell, he began to write this song, with the guitar on his lap: "I just wanted to tell her that I was thinking of her."

Contrary to popular belief,

Fearless

is not Alex Ubago's best-known song.

On Spotify, both songs have a similar number of reproductions, but, on YouTube, the video clip for

Although I can't see you

multiplies the reproductions of the one for

Without fear of anything

by six .

That of the first reaches the incredible figure of 148 million while that of the second remains at 23: "Very few people know this story, and now, it seemed like a good time to claim this song, which is an anthem in Latin America .

There, people who have migrant relatives have felt very identified.”

The singer-songwriter who with his ballads has put the soundtrack to our relationships celebrates twenty years on stage.

Thus,

20 years

, is what his latest album is called, in which he revisits his most iconic songs accompanied by friends such as Antonio Orozco, La Oreja de Van Gogh, Andrés Suárez or the Mexican band Matisse.

With them he shares the new version of

Although I can't see you

: “I'm very excited and very grateful, above all, for being able to be here after so long since this adventure began and for being able to celebrate it with such a beautiful album”.

Source: elparis

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