Xoel López (born 12 August 1977) is a Spanish alternative rock musician, formerly known as Deluxe, from
A Coruña
A Coruña (; ; also informally called just Coruña; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality in Galicia, Spain. It is Galicia's second largest city, behind Vigo. The city is the provincial capital of the province ...
,
Galicia.
Early in his career, López sang in English, but has since released albums in
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas
**Spanish cuisine
**Spanish history
**Spanish culture
...
. In a 2017 interview wit
Jot Down López describes his shift from singing in English to singing in Spanish, explaining that he experienced pressure early in his career to sing in English, but says that, later, “I made a decision
o sing in Spanishand I don’t know if it was the correct one, but at least it was more in harmony with what I was feeling.”
Lara Hermoso and Arturo Lezcano from Jot Down describe this shift in language and López’s decision to leave behind his moniker Deluxe as a process of reinvention “with the sole objective of being true to himself.”
In a 2015 interview wit
Efe Eme López describes his songwriting process as one that tries to avoid “intellectualization” of his music: “I seek, as best as possible, to be primitive and wild,” explaining that he has several developed songwriting methods.
In a 2019 interview wit
A La Contra López describes his relationship to his region of origin as important to his life and work, saying, “My way of understanding the world is very Galician.”
Tours and appearances
* In Spain, at Festimad,
Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
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(2002, 2003 and 2005), Sonorama, Contempopranea,
Espárrago Rock
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Acts performing at the festival included:
* Faith No More - 4 April 1998
* Bad Religion - 5 April 1998
* Dream ...
, Festival do Norte.
* With Juan Aguirre from
Amaral.
* At
Laboratorio Ñ Laboratorio Ñ was an initiative of the Spanish musicians Iván Ferreiro (ex member of Los Piratas), Quique González and Xoel López ( Deluxe), that took part between 8th and 22 November 2005. These musicians met in the house-musical study ''El ...
, a Spanish-Argentinian music camp with
Iván Ferreiro
* With
Amaral and
Quique González.
* In Germany in the
North Rhine-Westphalia
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''land'' during the
2006 FIFA World Cup
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His first band was Los Covers. His second band
Elephant Band had a lot of success.
His records have been recorded under Mushroom Pillow records. He released ''Fin de un viaje infinito'' (End of an Infinite Journey) in 2007 for
Virgin Records
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. His record ''Los Jóvenes Mueren Antes de Tiempo'' was considered the best of the year 2005 by the Spanish edition of the ''
Rolling Stone
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The magazine was first known fo ...
'' magazine.].
He has a very good rapport with Portuguese band
The Gift (band), The Gift, with each having opened a show for the other.
His first album under his own name, ''Atlántico'', was released in 2012.
''Sueños y Pan'' released in 2017 under his name was nominated for
IMPALA
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's European Album of the Year Award.
Discography
*''Not What You Had Thought'' (2001)
*''We Create, We Destroy'' (2003)
*''If Things Were to Go Wrong'' (2004)
*''Los Jóvenes Mueren Antes de Tiempo'' (2005)
*''Fin de un viaje infinito'' (2007)
*''Reconstrucción'' (2008)
*''Atlántico'' (2012)
*''Paramales'' (2015)
*''Sueños y pan'' (2017)
References
External links
official siteMyspace
Deluxe at Festival Internacional de Benicàssim 2005
Deluxe newsBests of year 2005
(Rolling Stone Spanish Edition, in Spanish)
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Living people
Spanish rock singers
Spanish pop musicians
Rock en español musicians
1977 births