When Born in the U.S.A It went on the market and sold fifteen million copies in the United States. The singer was Bruce Springsteen, a renowned artist who had been in the industry for two decades; a man from New Jersey who had done all kinds of juggling at the bottom of the scene and who did not receive real praise and glimpses of success until he published Born to Run in 1975. Afterwards would come a tour of Europe and a relatively high recognition that, in reality, was nothing compared to what his figure would be in the future. Eleven years later everything changed. Born in the U.S.A It was not a triumph. It was history.
The greatness of an artist is usually measured, sometimes correctly, based on the impact of their songs. But there is something else. Springsteen arrives in Madrid with an aura of legend that cannot be explained only by hours in the studio: the myths have a folkloric part that transcends the effort to be remembered. Y The Boss is that. The dates of the current tour in Spain will bring to almost 60 the number of concerts he has given in the country since he debuted on a distant day in time, a night of 1981 in the city of Barcelona. His figure is an example of musical iconicity; his life, a novel that, as happens with artists with a chimerical essence, can only be understood from reading his personal life.
A particular childhood and many school changes
Little Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen spent the first years of his childhood in Freehold Borough, New Jersey. His father, a bus driver, had Dutch and Irish ancestry Decades later, the singer recognized that the paranoid schizophrenia suffered by his father forever marked his mental health; His mother, his secretary, had numerous italian ancestors in your family tree. Everything came together in Bruce, whose temperament ended up bursting the glass that contained his academic circumstance: He transferred schools several times and even avoided attending his own graduation.
One fine day he saw Elvis Presley on television He was 13 years old and bought a guitar for 18 dollars. At 16, he received a $60 Kent guitar as a gift from his mother, who had to take out a loan to pay for the instrument (I remembered this story in The Wish). And he made the leap to his dream. It was 1965 when he assumed the role of guitarist in the group The Castileslater becoming a vocalist, and making student parties the places where they offered their concerts.
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After a brief step in the tro Earth and by another band known as Childa time in which they earned the nickname The Boss By receiving payment for shows and acting as a delivery man, Springsteen’s artistic birth came. He played in clubs, little by little gaining a group of loyal followers, until forming what would later be known as the E Street Bandwho are the ones who have accompanied the singer throughout his career: from North American bars to the Civitas Metropolitano.
sentimental life
Bruce’s first love was Karen Darvina girl who accompanied the artist during the years that followed the time in which he met his band, that of his first albums and the contract with Columbia Records, and whose story closed in 1977. In October 1984 he met Julianne Phillips, American model whom he married in Lake Oswego, Oregon, after midnight on Monday, May 13 of the following year. What seemed inseparable ended up breaking three calendars later: In 1988 he filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences. and, since then, neither of them wanted to comment on the matter.
Shortly afterward he would meet his great love. The band needed a female voice and a red-haired girl three years younger than Bruce appeared, a certain Patricia Patti Scialfa: The young woman, who had been a waitress and was pursuing her dream of devoting herself to music, captured her heart from the first moment, when, in 1984, she joined the E Street Band.
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I saw something different in Patti, something I had not experienced before with any woman., the singer said on one occasion, he did not pay so much attention to her then because, riding the roller coaster of success, he decided that he should marry Phillips, who was a nationally recognized personality. Springsteen and Scialfa got married in 1991 and as a result of this relationship three offspring were born: Evan James Springsteen (1990), Jessica Springsteen (1991) y Sam Ryan (1994).
Although the specter of infidelity has hovered over the relationship on more than one occasion, the most publicized case being that of such a Anne Kellywho said in 2010 that he had kept and affair with the singerwhom he would have met in a gym, the truth is that the singer and his backup singer have always maintained a solid and faithful image since they began to walk together more than three decades ago; from the beginnings of the E Street Band to, again, the Metropolitan. Since the times of Born in the U.S.A.
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