The incredible C. Tangana

Until recently, San Viator, a school in Madrid, boasted that it had produced two great champions in Spanish basketball: José Antonio Corbalán and Carlos Jiménez. We are sure that they are now proud to have had as a former pupil C. Tangana, a great rapper and a phenomenon of Spanish music. "Where did I go to school?/ San Viator,/ priests and private students,/ I'm just a posh little brat". That is what C. Tangana sings in "Diez Años", a song which is a biography telling how it all started. “When I was ten I discovered rap, III Communication and Fear of a Black Hat”.

The child became a teenager, and the Faculty of Philosophy seemed to be where the artist would end up, but it was just the start. Nobody would have thought that this student was on the point of becoming a benchmark for modern music in Spanish. The singer may have still need to remove a layer or two before discovering his essence. Puchito, Chito, Crema, El Madrileño… After each metamorphosis, a more refined creator appeared, with eight albums completed, all full of fusions and experiments. Which is only natural if we take at look at what influenced him: Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Alejandro Sanz, Joselito, Los Chichos and Rosario. 
Twelve people collaborated in his latest album which goes to show his desire to feed off others and fusion. We should tell you that, just 24 hours after releasing his latest album "El Madrileño", it had been played more than five million times.

He worked in Pans & Company and in the publishing house Anaya; now it would seem that everyone in the world of music would love to work with him. Antón Álvarez Alfaro, the kid from San Viator, is on tour, which is just like saying he is on a triumphal procession. It started on 19 February in Málaga and will end in London on 3 September, and all concerts have been sold out, including the one in Madrid. Whoever said that nobody is a prophet in his own land did not know C. Tangana.