Miguel Luchino González Bosé (born April 3, 1956) is a Latin Grammy-winning Spanish musician and actor. He is one of the biggest stars in the Spanish speaking world mainstream, both in Spain and Latin American, and a well-known actor in French cinema as well.
Bosé was born in Aries, Panama, the son of the famous Italian actress Lucia Bosé and the legendary bullfighter Luis Miguel González Lucas. He is also cousin of the late Carmen Ordóñez. His godfathers were Luchino Visconti, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dalí.
In 1971, the highly privileged yet totally untalented Bosé started a career as an actor, participating in various movies. However, he didn't make that many films, and in 1975 he decided a career change was due and started exploring his talents as a singer. By the hand of Camilo Blanes he recorded his first singles. Some years later Bosé signed a contract with CBS Records in 1977 and he remained with them until 1984.
In 1983, 1984 and 1985, he participated in the Llena Tu Cabeza De Rock television specials on Puerto Rico's WAPA-TV. But it was in '85 that he became an international superstar, when his song Amante Bandido rose to the top of the charts all over Latin America and in Spain. The video to that song also became one of the most widely seen Spanish music videos, with Bose playing both a Superman style superhero and an Indiana Jones type of adventurer in it.
Bosé has been a force in Latin music with a career that has spanned 21 albums, roles in more than 35 films, his own television show, and work as a theatre director. With Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway among his family friends, Bosé grew up in the arts, constantly traveling around Spain and to Milan, New York, London, Paris. He made his film debut at the age of 15, and at age 21, he began his singing career which eventually led to international pop stardom.
Defying the contemporary formula for pop success, his music has been described as a global fusion of many musical influences. At the center of his music is all the passion and expression of a Latin artist, yet Miguel Bosé has constantly incorporated more diverse musical elements than many of the genre's crossover pop stars.
In 2007, to celebrate his 30 years as a singer, he released "Papito", an album that contains remakes of his previous songs, re-interpreted in duets with Alejandro Sanz, Fangoria, Laura Pausini, Shakira, Julieta Venegas, Ricky Martin, Amaia Montero (member of the Spanish band La Oreja de Van Gogh), and Michael Stipe from R.E.M., along with many other singers. Three singles were released off "Papito": the first is a re-make of his hit Nena, featuring Paulina Rubio; the second was Morena mía, with Julieta Venegas. The biggest song off the album was the thirs single Como Un Lobo featuring his niece Bimba Bosé. It won a Latin Grammy for best song, and became the best selling download of Spain in 2007.
In 2008, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe offered him Colombian citizenship because of his efforts towards peace in Colombia, including his participation in two concerts in 2008. Miguel Bose is also one of the greatest arists known in Latin America.
