Que me parta un rayo

Que me parta un ray is not only one of the best rock albums in Spanish of all time. With him, Christina Rosenvinge, in 1992, opened a path that until then had been followed by very few women, without fuss but with courage, and without asking or owing anything to anyone. The album was successful and captivated listeners of all walks of life in Spain and, at the same time, was a work of reference, freedom and hope for hundreds of thousands of girls in Latin America, who helped them understand that there were other lives. possible. With Que me parta lightning, Christina Rosenvinge took a radical turn in her career, looking for her own voice and artistic identity, but something else happened: she also revealed herself as an immense composer, dazzling both in her careful, personal and narrative lyrics and in the imagine captivating melodies. To get the album on its feet, she turned to Joaquín Sabina's live group (Antonio García de Diego, Pancho Varona, Jaime Asúa), renamed Los Subterráneos for the occasion. Together they shaped a masterpiece that has far exceeded the relentless passage of time, as reflected brilliantly in this book by Carlos H. Vázquez. Let lightning strike me. The electric gaze of Christina Rosenvinge reconstructs the gestation of the record, as an oral history, through the memories of those who were involved in its creation: friends, acquaintances, colleagues, record labels, managers, relatives... In addition to Christina herself , the author has brought together Antonio García de Diego, Pancho Varona, Jaime Asúa, José Nodar, Benjamín Prado, Coque Malla, Mercedes Ferrer, Alejo Stivel, Miren Iza or Joaquín Sabina.