Trovador
by David Alvarez
Trovador (Troubadour) tells a deceptively simple tale, about not being judged by appearances. It marks a moment in 1995 when Alvarez found himself singing in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, with his accompanying musicians where they were almost denied their place to perform. Sanity prevailed as this song bears witness!
I am the minstrel
World's best paid
With dress shoes
And watch again,
My face is well made shirt
From fine point,
My best leather belt holder.
I charge nearly a million each song,
My car is wide sole, scallops,
I live in a big mansion,
Bordering a lake of tears
Degusto the best
The best wine.
Pay me with that laugh Trovador
Pay me with that tear tangled
Pay me with applause cesarean
With this song I stop love.
I am the highest paid who sings,
Someone sitting with my singing is what I want
I'm a man of the heap that rises
I am a simple troubadour
Dress beggar.
Album
David Alvarez new album: Clandestino With this new disc Alvarez locates that Caribbean feel within a broader Mediterranean sensibility, focusing on a string sound adding laud and Cuban tres guitar to acoustic guitars. This gives the dazzling selection of songs composed over a long period an Italiana more…
Artist: David Alvarez
Artist
A man and an acoustic guitar. A Cuban man from the beautiful city of Manzanillo. A man offering a set of bold, confessional songs, versed in poetry, uncensored stories of the joys and trammels of love. It can only mean one thing: songs of a trovador, the modern equivalent of the early medieval troub more…