On October 10, 1858, Rosalía de Castro married Manuel Martínez Murguía in the parish church of San Ildefonso, located at the confluence of the Corredera Baja and the Alta, a narrow street parallel to the busiest in Fuencarral. The latter was, in Rosalía’s time, the main exit from Madrid to France. Rosalía lived until her […]

This time it’s me, Carlos Amil, who tells you that Fran Amil, the bravú drummer, is planning a tribute in honor of a musical legend who turns thirty. Bravú rock. Galician and in Galician languaje, a arroutada in the words of Xurxo Souto, a passion that burns the chest, in the accurate definition of the […]

The place of Vilariño, in Os Vilares de Guitiriz (Lugo), welcomed a new inhabitant on February 19, 1914. A troubled world had arrived and was about to explode in a world conflict that would be called the Great War, today more known as World War I. But in those heights and in those places in […]

To celebrate a date like today, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Fran Amil invites us to recover the video No Violencia, a music video clip made by Manu Viqueira with all the students and the educational community of CEIP Rosalía de Castro, from A Coruña. The NoViolencia project is an initiative […]

Fran Amil has a parallel career with his group Chuches Amil, oriented towards family music. It has two CDs edited by Editorial Galaxia in its “Sonárbore” collection, which you can listen to on the Chuches Amil website. A magnificent page full of tasty news and varied content: songs, stories brimming with imagination, comics, illustrations in […]

On May 10, 1976, Manuel María’s collection of poems “Rolled songs for alienated and colonized” is published in the Editorial Xistral (Monforte de Lemos). The publishing house had been created in Lugo in 1952 by the Terra Chá poet himself together with Ánxel Johán, and he brought out a Galician collection of poems with the […]

Well, we already have the lyrics in Galician, Spanish and English for my albums “A voz do vento” and “Popsia Vol. I”. “A voz do vento” is dedicated entirely to songs derived from the poems of Manuel María, commissioned by A Mesa Pola Normalización Lingüística to bring the Terra Cha poet closer to youth. The […]

Lyrics: Manuel María (from the book “Aldraxe contra a xistra”, 1973) Music: Fran Amil Manuel María reviews our history, deliberately forgotten in the manuals in use at the time the poem was published. Fortunately, today we approach our history in another way, but it is necessary to remain alert, because the times of oblivion immediately […]

Lyrics: Manuel María (from the book “As lúcidas lúas do Outono”, 1988) Music: Fran Amil Manuel María sings to the resistance. His verses become a rock cry. We are like steel and like iron. Life is a blind and twisted spiral, but we learn all its twists and turns and, with bread and wine and […]

Lyrics: Manuel María (from the book “Terra Chá”, 1954) Music: Fran Amil Manuel María sings in his first book to his land and to simple things full of life, like those pools of ephemeral life. But thanks to the strength and honesty of his verses, the pools lengthen his life whenever an awakened ear welcomes […]