BSO with Emilio Aragón

B.S.O. SYNOPSIS

On B.S.O., Emilio Aragón revisits the music that has marked the most important moments in his guests’ lives. Featuring live video clips, live musical performances, and innovative choreography to surprise them with the soundtrack of their lives.

B.S.O. intertwines music and conversation in a natural way, accompanied by screenings, choreography, detailed artwork, and a cinematographic production.

The undisputed star of the show in each of the eight episodes is the music. 

Emilio Aragón directs and presents this musical entertainment show that pays tribute to its main guest, through the songs that make up the soundtrack of his life. Raphael, Los Javis, Belén Rueda or Joaquín (soccer player) will be some of the protagonists. In each program, one of them will be interviewed by Emilio, who in turn will give way to unique performances, interpreted in very different ways by guest artists. Each program will represent the universe of the honoree, with a scenography according to his personality, with choreographies, visual effects and a fixed band, which will accompany the musical interpretations.

B.S.O. with Emilio Aragón EPISODE 3: Joaquín

Synopsis

Emilio Aragón directs and presents this musical entertainment show that pays tribute to the soccer player Joaquín, through the songs that make up the soundtrack of his life. Joaquín tells Emilio about his childhood, his beginnings in soccer, anecdotes of his profession with his favorite songs as the backbone, which will be masterfully interpreted by guest artists such as Zenet, María José Llergo accompanied by Josemi Carmona, Andrés Suaréz and Marino Saiz, Los Secretos, Rebeca Jiménez, Alejo Stivel, and Kiko Veneno. Each program will represent the universe of the honoree, with a scenography according to his personality, with choreographies, visual effects and a fixed band, which will accompany the musical interpretations.

B.S.O. with Emilio Aragón EPISODIO 4: Belén Rueda

Synopsis.

Emilio Aragón directs and presents this musical entertainment show that pays tribute to the actress Belén Rueda, through the songs that make up the Soundtrack of her life. Belén Rueda will review her career, but she will also show her more personal side: she will recall her car trips with her parents, her passion for dancing, her first international trips, her television experience and her successful incursion into cinema, and she will recall her great professional moment, when in 2005 she won the Goya award for best new actress.

Carlos Núñez and Xurxo Núñez, Bebe, Cristian de Moret, La Mari (Chambao), Garret Wall, Llibert Fortuny and Emilio Aragón himself, will be the artists who will provide the instruments and voice to this emotional journey through the songs that are part of his vital soundtrack.

There will also be references to dance, so important in Belén Rueda’s life. Each program will represent the universe of the honoree, with a scenography according to his personality, with choreography, visual effects and a fixed band, which will accompany the musical interpretations.

B.S.O. with Emilio Aragón EPISODE 5 : Antonio Banderas

Synopsis

Emilio Aragón receives on the set of B.S.O. the great international star, Antonio Banderas.

The actor and director will review his personal and professional career through the songs of his life. He will remember his first steps in the USA, his artistic awakening with the theater, the sound of that train in which he left Malaga, to return being who he wanted to be, when he met Almodóvar, his experience as a director, that great night of the Oscars in 1994, which meant so much to him and the most recent Dolor y Gloria.

They will talk about all these topics and the songs that were important in each of those moments. Performing these songs will be Dani Martín, Coque Malla, Sharon Corr (The Corrs), Travis Birds and Vanesa Martin, accompanied by the dancing of Sara Baras.

In addition, Antonio is bringing the entire company of the Soho Theater in Malaga to perform the main theme of A Chorus Line and to accompany him in the theme Being Alive, which he performs himself, he is accompanied by the Pop Symphony of the Soho Theater.

With this gesture, Antonio wants to give value to so many theater and musical workers, who have been so affected in these times of pandemic, in which they have not been able to work.

Banderas will recount his terrible episode when he suffered a heart attack in 2017, which was a turning point for him and has made him return to his Malaga, where he has settled to carry out his life project, the Soho Theater and make his city a cultural Malaga.

As always, the finishing touch will be put by Bebo San Juan, this time performing with his guest, the theme I love you, Guajira, where Antonio dares to sing and improvise some verses.

B.S.O. with Emilio Aragón EPISODE 6 : Alaska

Synopsis.

Emilio Aragón dedicates this new installment of BSO to a unique woman, Alaska, with whom he has many things in common. They arrived in Spain at the same time, in 1973, and they are both sons of Cuban and Spanish parents.

With Alaska we want to reflect the passage of time, a career so fruitful, adapted to each era, without losing an iota of such a special personality. An artist capable of recycling herself, a restlessness to know beyond what was within her reach and how music influenced her from a very young age, in her native Mexico. A pioneer in a gray Spain, which she filled with color.

Alaska will review her life, inevitably marked by music. We will learn about her childhood in Mexico, her arrival in Madrid, her walks with her mother along the Gran Vía and the Madrid flea market that made her discover so many of the things that would later become her life. We will know how to listen to Bowie’s Heroes for the first time, taste a Cuban sandwich and what exactly La Movida madrileña meant.

In a recreation of her own living room, Alaska gives us the keys to her life and her songs, which will be interpreted by Amaral, Sole Giménez, Ariel Rot, David Summers, Andrea Motis, Leonor Watling and Emilio Aragón himself. In addition, the latter will once again play the role of Bebo San Juan to sing to Olvido, a Bolero de salón.

B.S.O. with Emilio Aragón EPISODE 7 : Dani Rovira

Synopsis.

Dani Rovira’s favorite movie is Big Fish and it has marked him in all aspects of his life. He considers that he has a minstrel spirit and that he is a storyteller, that he is a storyteller and hence the importance of this film for him. The BSO set thus becomes a Big Fish. With a fair in a clearing in a forest as in the film. With its circus characters, the tree with the wooden slats, the boots and an entrance to a very spectacular circus tent. All very magical and fantasy of Tim Burton. Emilio will talk with him about his career, his beginnings, his success, his illness, his philosophy of life and his commitment to helping others and especially animals.

The comedian tells how storytelling made him very happy and how the influence that Emilio Aragón himself, for whom he feels a deep admiration, Pepe Rubianes or Faemino y Cansado had on him, made him decide for comedy. “You would have to wear a white coat”, a girl once told him when he came out to see him act, and that’s when he understood that it was a very necessary profession. He explains how the muses come to him on stage and his best moments have come from improvising.

We will know how this comedian was discovered in the theater by a well-known casting director and got the role of his life in 8 apellidos vascos.

All these anecdotes of life will be told with Dani’s favorite songs as a common thread. From Pau Donés and Silvio Rodriguez to Triana, Manuel Carrasco or the French Noir Desír. And they will be interpreted by Manolo García, the group Elefantes, Conchita and Alba Molina.

In addition, we will see Dani singing by Miguel Ríos, the one his father likes so much and picking up the message of Bebo San Juan, when he sings “Sácale la lengua” referring to something we should all do at times like the ones we are living.

The BSO dedicated to the comedian is a hymn to life. There will be no lack of emotion, but without losing the humor, the main characteristic of two of our best comedians together. Emilio and Dani feel mutual admiration for each other and it shows in this very special dialogue.

B.S.O. with Emilio Aragón EPISODE 8 : Lolita

Synopsis

The program will be structured like the verses of the song Mediterráneo by Serrat, Lolita’s favorite song and with which she will delight us singing. They will deal with her childhood and what it is like to belong to a family saga of artists. What it means to be the daughter of Lola Flores and grow up under her skirts and her art. Her beginnings in singing, her first tours, her work as an actress, her passion for theater and life with the Flores FAMILY, with “normal” parents in her day to day life, her relationship with her siblings and her children. They will talk about their father, El Pescaílla, how he was the musician par excellence of the family and how the three brothers have drunk from his musical essence. His influence has led him to sing boleros as he sang them.

With Amor, amor he had the great success of his musical career, which began when he was a minor. He opened for Camilo Sesto and Miguel Bosé. She toured the whole of America and the Miami Sound Machine itself, with Gloria Estefan, heeled her.

The songs of heartbreak and in particular the boleros, are the ones she likes the most. We will know how important Serrat is for her and what other songs made her vibrate in her youth. How Sade reminds her of her sister Rosario or how her brother Antonio “musically introduced” her to many artists and a “noviete” to Cindy Lauper.

These two international artists will be versioned as part of Lolita’s soundtrack, along with Camarón, Armando Manzanero, Paco Ortega and Isabel Montero, Serrat or her own mother.

We will discover a new facet of Lolita, painting, and she will show it to us in a precious moment, while Rozalén sings, who, together with Anni B. Sweet, María Pelae, Alice Wonder, Fuel Fandango and Israel Fernández, will sing her favorite songs.

Lolita thanks Emilio for making a music program, so she can make MUSIC.

They will put the finishing touch with Bebo San Juan giving her “Canta hasta que te duela la garganta”, which talks about what we should all do, every day, sing and dance, “that makes your soul happy”. They will sing this song together and close with all the artists together around the piano singing and dancing in a very flamenco finale.