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Los Secretos: My favourite music band Los Secretos is a Spanish legendary pop music band created by the Urquijo Brothers (Enrique, Álvaro y Javier) in Madrid in 1978 which has been playing since then. The band has gone through for diverse stages, some of them complex and sad due to the death of two of its drummers and afterwards the death of Enrique Urquijo, leader and singer of the band. In spite of these tragic occurrences, the band, led now by Álvaro Urquijo, has always been able to pick itself up and go on. After a career of almost 40 years, “Los Secretos” bring out “Algo prestado”, a new album of cover versions in tribute to some of the musicians who have influenced them along of all these years. The versions selected to this work, have been translated into Spanish and adapted to the characteristic sound of Secretos. The most part of artists selected are Americans and British musicians of the 70’s and 80’s as Jackson Browne, Nick Lowe, Gram Parsons or Peter Gabriel among others although there are also contemporary performers as Fountains of Wayne or Ron Sexmith. According to the disc, I have to say that, in spite of it be a cover versions album, I’ve loved it. I feel that, one more time, they’ve surpassed themselves. On reference to the songs, all of them are very beautiful, standing out some of them as “Esta ciudad” (Hackensack, of Fountains of Wayne), “Ponte en la fila” (Get in line, of Ron Sexmith), “Entre tú y yo” (Between you and me, of Graham Parker) or “Sentémonos a hablar” (Why don’t we talk about it, of Rodney Crowell), although, if I had to choose, I would take “Algo prestado”, a extraordinary song (Call it a loan) of a huge songwriter named Jackson Browne. This is an intimist and emotive song which, as well as, gives name to the disc. In conclussion, I would recommend this album to all lovers of the good music and I invite to discover to Los Secretos and theirs lenghty discography and history.
July 1, 2015
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Anybody for language exchange English (UK)-Spanish? I'm from Spain. My English level is about B1 and I would like to improve to B2. I'm married and I have two children. I'm a primary school teacher. I like listen to various sorts of music, for instance, the American songwriter Jackson Browne, and Los Secretos, one of the best Spanish pop band. As well as I like play football in my leisure time. I hope to hear from you soon. Javier
June 15, 2015
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Does the language exchange work?

Hello everybody,

My name is Javier and I'm from Spain. Currently I study English as a part of my primary school teacher's studies since, these days, in Spain, it's necessary for working. Recently, I found out this web thinking that I could talk with native speakers on skype or something like that but it hasn't been possible yet and I don't know why? What's your point of view on this matter?

Thanks in advance.

Regards. Javier

June 15, 2015
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My house I live in a flat. Actually, it’s in a residential complex with community gardens and swimming pools. The flat has about 90 m2 and it's distributed in three bedrooms, kitchen, toilet, bathroom, dining room and a wide terrace. The distribution of the house is very suitable due to living area is separated of the rest one. In this way, on one side are the kitchen, dining room and terrace and, on the other one, are the bedrooms and toilets. Currently, we use one of the bedrooms as a playroom where our two children play and do theirs homework. In this room there are a whiteboard, a desk with two chairs and a computer. Also, there are a built-in closet and a shelf with books and several boxes with amount of little toy’s Disney princesses and pinypons. The children’s bedroom has a truckle bed where they sleep both. The same as the other one, there is a built-in closet and also a chest of drawers. The main bedroom is like a suite, that is, it has inside a bathroom and a dressing room. All the bedrooms have windows with beautiful sights to the mountains. Regarding the other side of the house, it’s some years we made some remodels. We did up the whole kitchen. We put better cupboards and a table with four chairs where we have breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday. About the terrace, we glazed it, put parquet floor, a sofa and a chair with four chairs. In this way, we turned it into a summer living room with lovely sights to the community swimming pool and garden. So far, we have lived very comfortably and have been very happy in this house. However, we would like to move to a house with garden in the long run, so that, we can have a dog.
June 12, 2015
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