Enrique Ortiz de Landzuri Izarduy

Enrique Bunbury, whose real name is Enrique Ortiz de

Landazuri Izardui, born on August 11, 1968 !ith twel"e years
he bought his #irst ele$tri$ guitar and started %laying in
198& in a grou% $alled '(e"elation' Later a member o# the
band '(ebel !altz' in whi$h he %layed the drums and "oi$e
)in$e 198* a member o# se"eral grou%s, su$h as 'entro%i$
%ro$ess, the $ensorshi% o# stories' or '+hree ,ears O#
-enalty'
.es%ite this long $areer, and dan$e grou%s, the #ame o#
Enrique Bunbury not #ully re$ognized until 198/ #ormed the
'0eroes del )ilen$io 1, alongside 2uan 3aldi"ia
0is in$onsisten$y and his insatiable desire to sear$h led him
to embar4 on long 5ourneys 6not bound by the tour with the
band7, through its idolatrada %lanet )o e8$ited by his
reading orientalists "isiting a $ou%le o# times in India and
9e%al many Later, and through :e8i$o ;astaneda dis$o"ers the
%ro#ound and the Ameri$an shamani$ tra"eling to ;hia%as,
Oa8a$a, <uintana (oo, ,u$atan, =uatemala and Belize 9or is
;uba resists, this time guided by the magi$ santeros Its
last ma5or dis$o"ery 6whi$h re#le$ts a sound in his latest
album7 is the Arab world, the nearest east .uring the last
#our years %isa :oro$$an soil, tra"els to +unisia and 2ordan
re$alled its %assage
)el#>taught musi$ian, in all these tri%s is be$oming
indigenous instruments In 3aranasi learns to %lay the sitar
in :arra4e$h and the Berber sgira bongos in ;uba
Enrique Bunbury in 199? %rodu$ed the ;. '.reams In Bla$4 And
!hite' by +he Brides o# @aragoza In 199A %arti$i%ates in the
$horus o# the ;. '0ea"en 4nows' o# .istri$t 1* In 199*
$reated the inde%endent label ';on"ersely (e$ords' +he
$om%any released the albumsB 'E"erything C 9othing stays the
same' grou% @aragozano +he Brides 6$o>owners o# the label7
and the $om%ilation 'Li"e @aragoza' @aragoza with ?? bands
-ublished in 1996, dire$ts and writes in the 5ournal
:onogra%hi$ inde%endent a"alan$ha :agazine 'and is wor4ing on
a $ou%le o# boo4s on 0eroes .el )ilen$io
A#ter the brea4u% o# 0eroes del )ilen$io, Enrique Bunbury
started his solo $areer, editing (adi$al )onora 'in 199/ +wo
years later he %ublished ')mall' and the ?&&& ')mall
Ambulante ;abaret'
In ?&&? %ublished a new wor4 entitled 'Dlamingos'
'Dlamingos' regained the taste #or the guitar, as Bowie turns
%remiered the #irst single, 'Lady Blue', and del"es into
ele$troni$a, Latin Ameri$an sounds, ro$4 and roll, 5azz,
hon4y ton4, or the rhythms o# 9ew Orleans One round and
"aried album #rom an artist the "i$tim o# an o"erwhelming
musi$al restlessness
In ?&&8, Enrique Bunbury %ublishes 0ell"ille de Lu8e '
10ell"ille Lu8e1 the name o# the house and studio that the
singer has @aragozano in -uerto de )anta :aria, has ser"ed to
$hristen this album a#ter #our years without %ublishing new
material on its own -rodu$ed by -hil :anzanera, the album
was re$orded and mastered in =erona in 9ew ,or4, and
re%resents the return o# Bunbury andalusia ro$4 sound that
made him a star