Spanish Music Reviews

I'm a huge fan of Spanish music, never really used to until I moved to Spain and started hearing it on radio, and it's quite different from Latin music you hear of from the Americas. For a start, Spanish musicians tend to be just like musicians everywhere else, they record pop music and rock music.

I do enjoy some latin music, but again, I'm finding that Mexican pop or rock music appeals to me more than traditional latin music. The biggest selling Latin music artists don't really get my feet tapping anymore, Shakira annoys me, and the music that does get me interested and excited comes from La Oreja de Van Gogh, Paulina Rubio, Vega, La Quinta Estacion, Nena Daconte, El Sueño de Morfeo, Kiko and Shara, Pastora Soler, etc.

So I'm going to start writing a series of posts reviewing my favorite albums, just because I reckon a few people come to my blog looking for ebooks on learning Spanish, and one of the best ways to learn is by listening to music. So I'll pick albums that I listen to, the albums I enjoy the most tend to be clearly enunciated, making it easy to read lyrics and sing along.

Here in Ronda it isn't possible to buy a lot of the music I'm going to review, and maybe where you live it won't be so easy as well, but es.7digital.com is a great legal site for buying and downloading Spanish music for 99c per track, and everything I review I've bought from there. They also accept PayPal making it easier still.

I'm going to try and mix up the albums I review, some will be straight out pop music, others will be quirky off the wall rock/folk type albums, others will have hints of flamenco. At least it might give you a good idea of the type of music being listened to in Spain, and I think that always helps to appreciate a culture.