Yes...Think of Me

In 1973, having recently arrived in New York City from Honduras, my siblings and I were struggling to assimilate to our new environment: learning English, getting to know and eventually love the New York Mets (who by the way shocked the Cincinnati Reds in the National League Playoffs and fell to the Oakland A's in the seventh game of the World Series) and new friends. That same year, a young Spanish singer captured the imagination of Latin America. Miguel Bosé, son of great and legendary Spanish matador Luis Miguel Dominguin and beautiful Italian actress Lucia Bosé was catching fire with young Latin American and young Europe. We were aware of him, seeing him on Mexican TV's top rated show "Siempre en Domingo" but one morning in 1979 while I was changing subway lines at Times Square I heard his music coming out of a generic subway record store. I asked the salesman who was the singer and he told me that indeed it was Miguel Bosé and his new album "Chicas". I pulled a metal chair and sat in a corner and listened to the entire album...did not go to school that day. "Si...Piensa en Mi" became my favorite song and it is still my favorite Bosé song. My brother René and I became fans and throughout life we have special songs that mark our mood in time. Miguel Bosé went on to have a great career, controversial, successful, failures and plagued by innuendo, just like many, if not all of us. I understand if you are not a fan of him, his music is somewhat contrived and soaring at the same time, poetic and rudimentary, too. But there is always a special place in my life and heart for him, especially "Si..Piensa en mi", his best song, his most under-appreciated song...a chimera of life that made me dream that day in a record store under the streets of New York.