There is a radio program that I have been dedicated to since I could remember. This radio program, here in NYC, airs only on Sunday mornings from 8am to 12pm. It's called Senor Bolero and the majority of the songs are ballads from way back before I was born and probably during the times when my Mom was still learning how to walk. I can't explain why I became so fascinated with ballads, maybe I was exposed to this kind of music early in my baby years. I have been an avid fan of ballads and have been trying to collect as many songs and albums from the artist that are all over Latin American, the Caribbean and Spain.
I may have heard of Sara Montiels music even before the internet and once I listened to one of her songs on a movie, Bad Education by Pedro Almodovar, "Quizas, Quizas, Quizas", I quickly bought an album of hers on iTunes. Ballads are not for everyone, thats a fact, like is music in general. Ballads however, have lasted forever, as it seems, and I have become one of the many that have fallen in love with this genre.
Sara Montiel is an artist that takes me back into times I never lived in. It's something called helping me use my imagination and it's great. There I times when I start researching Design from the 70's because her music had overloaded my thoughts and I could not bare sitting around and not digging up info on what I had in mind.
Sara Montiel is, was, and will probably be someone to never forget for those in love, in the same way as I am, with this genre. I had to write about Sarita, as she is also known, because I could not bare to watch Bad Education for the millionth time and hear her song.
The two albums I have of hers are: Un Placer and Viva La Diva
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