Enrique Bunbury

Did You Know?

• The SESAC Latina Music Awards honored him with the Icon Award in 2019.
• He will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Latin Recording Academy in 2025.
• His vocal range can go from F2 to A5, with the ability to hit C3.

Career

Bunbury got involved in music in the early 1980s, making his debut in a high school band called Apocalipsis, and later played with Proceso Entrópico. In 1984, he joined Zumo de Vidrio, debuting as a lead vocalist. After adopting the nickname Bunbury, taken from the Oscar Wilde stage play The Importance of Being Earnest, he founded Héroes del Silencio, becoming a major player in the Spanish rock scene. The band broke up in 1996, and Bunbury embarked on his solo career in 1997 by launching an electro-rock album, Radical Sonora, with his new band: Copi (piano), Del Moran (bass), Ramon Garcias (drums), and former Héroes del Silencio guitarist Alan Boguslavsky.

In 1999 he released Pequeño, which sounded very different from anything he had done before. His band underwent changes: Boguslavsky was replaced by Rafa Dominguez, and new members joined: Ana Belén Estaje (violin), Luis Miguel Romero (percussion), Javier Iñigo, Javier Garcia Vega, and Antonio Ríos on metal instruments. This band was known as the "Huracán Ambulante" and had great energy onstage. In 2005 after eight years together, Bunbury dissolved the band due to frustration with his record label and future.

He took a trip to Cuba to disconnect, then connected with Spanish singer-songwriter Nacho Vegas. They recorded the album El Tiempo De Las Cerezas, released in 2006 with a small tour, leading to a live DVD performance at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. In 2007, Héroes del Silencio reunited for an exclusive worldwide tour of ten concerts in ten cities, called "Tour 2007," marking the 20th anniversary of their first performances and the ten years since their dissolution.

The first concert was in Guatemala City on 15 September, followed by Buenos Aires (21 September), Monterrey, Mexico (25 September), Los Angeles (28 September), Mexico City (4 & 6 October), Zaragoza, Spain (10 & 12 October), Seville, Spain (20 October), and Valencia, Spain (27 October). Bunbury then formed a new band called "Los Santos Inocentes" and recorded eight studio albums with them: Helville De Luxe (2008), Las Consecuencias (2010), Licenciado Cantinas (2011), Palosanto (2013), MTV Unplugged: El Libro De Las Mutaciones (2015), Expectativas (2017), Posible (2020), and Curso De Levitación Intensivo (2020).

A documentary directed by Alexis Morante, El camino más largo, was released in 2016, chronicling Bunbury's 2010 US tour.