David Bowie (born David Robert Jones) was born on January 8th, 1947 in Brixton, London. His mother was a waitress and his father worked for Barnardo’s, a British charity for the youth. He assisted the Stockwell Infants School until he was six years old. In 1953 his family moved to another city, so he got into Burnt Ash Junior School, where he studied art, music and design. He had a major injurie in school in 1962, when his friend George Underwood punched him in the eye in a fight for a girl. After two eye operations and a four month hospitalization he was left with a defective depth perception and a permanently dilates pupil. Despite that, they remained friends, and Underwood worked in Bowie’s first albums. He wasn’t very known before his 1969 song ‘Space Oddity’, based in Stanley Kubrick’s movie ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’. His career strengthened in the ‘70s, when he adopted an endless count of extreme personalities,such as Ziggy Stardust, trying to satisfice a variety of musical styles. In the mid ‘70s he survived a long diet of milk, peppers and cocaine. He later stated that he had spent that time trying to keep Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin’s guitarist) and witches from taking his soul. Bowie kept his career as a musician and even starred in a few films, such as ‘The Man Who Fell To Earth’ (1976) and ‘Labyrinth’ (1986). In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine positioned him on the 39th spot of their list of ‘100 Greatest Artists of All Time’, and the 23rd spot on ‘100 Best Singers’. He won a lifetime achievement Grammy in 2006 and his most recent album is The Next Day, released in 2013.
Actually, he is working on a new album to be released this year, and a few rare editions of previous albums.
Yulisa Monsálvez
