His many achievements include: best-selling album (his eighth studio album, Dance the wind), which remained at the top of sales for 85 successive weeks. Too starred in the tour with the highest attendance, adding among all his shows a figure of over 275.000 viewers.
He got second place in the second season of the reality show Operación Triunfo, in the already distant 2003. The status it enjoys today is not the product of chance.
It is the fruit of many years of work and perseverance. Those years that, as the singer-songwriter himself has pointed out on more than one occasion, you don't have to give up and or abandon your dreams.
List of his main successes
Do not stop dreaming
Included in the album I confess that I have felt, released in 2013. The song achieved real notoriety after the tour Dance the wind in 2016.
A hopeful song, composed by Carrasco himself, that reflects the artist's spirit of perseverance.
The singer-songwriter has pointed out that for him there is no more joy than provide a light and hope for those who need it.
No longer
First promotional single from the hit album Dance the wind. A story of heartbreak and pain, loaded with a lot of strength and some anger.
That nobody
Single taken from the album Inertia, published in 2008, a work that reported good sales numbers and that already showed an artist who could go much further than Operación Triunfo.
Sung as a duet with Malú, it is also all a declaration of principles against the mistreatment suffered by some women. Carrasco himself has pointed out that “this song is a song of freedom for each person. A scourge for cowardly macho men ”.
It was Double Platinum Disc and number one on the Spanish music charts for seven weeks.
One x one
Second single taken from his most recent production Dance the wind. The lyrics of this song walk in the opposite direction to that of No longer. A song of a lover, full of love overflowing.
The flamenco sounds, typical in Carrasco's discography, adorn a happy melody
Let the air run
Simple debut of the solo career of Manuel Carrasco, when he was just leaving behind the euphoria unleashed by his second place in Operación Triunfo.
It also meant the debut of a facet as a composer apparently with a lot of potential.
A fairly fresh song, with the optimism that usually accompanies the singer.
I want to live
After spite behind No longer and the declaration of love from One x one, the third single from Dance to the wind It is this song with a much more cheerful cadence.
The lyrics also invite happiness, to bet on love.
La video staging as well as the way it was edited, it takes a lot of the typical elements of reggaeton audiovisual clips.
And now
Included in the disc Third stop, published in 2006. A very heartfelt romantic ballad, like most of the songs of the singer born in Isla Cristina.
Carrasco, who has also participated as a coach in La Voz España and La Voz Kids, received a tribute with this song from his team in the show, in the 2016 edition.
Woman of a thousand battles
Included in Speak II, this song is kind of a special version of his 2012 work Speech. In this reissue six new unpublished songs were included, among which this one stands out.
A theme composed within the framework of the campaign 8 words, 1 goal from a well-known beer brand, in support of the fight of women with breast cancer.
Carrasco left, to put together the song, from eight words that eight different women gave him, victims of the disease. Those words represented a vital point in the personal struggle of each one of them, to survive and move on.
The theme is a clear example of the hope that the singer-songwriter wants to radiate through his music, as well as his versatility when composing.
Drums of war
Seventh promo taken from Dancing the wind. Atypical lyrics within Carrasco's discography, halfway between hopelessness and not giving up in the face of adversity.
On a musical level, it is a much more energetic ballad compared to the rest of the pieces that make up the album. The use of violins as melodic accompanists stands out and a more marked presence of the drums, which take the rhythm to pop rock territories.
Speech
Theme that gave title to the fifth work of Carrasco. An invitation - a cry, almost - for all those people who keep things inside and do not express their feelings.
The singer has pointed out that exhortation to speak, It is as much for those who hear the song as for himself.
Dance the wind
When Dance the wind is about to turn two years after its release, the song that names the plate is the latest promotional single to settle on the musical grid of trendy songs.
Accompanied by string instruments (from violins to electric guitar), it is the reaffirmation of the most energetic Carrasco and with more hope in the "forces of love."
Love no longer dies
In 2004, Manuel Carrasco met with Chenoa to cover this classic by Gianni Bella.
The song was a notable success, with Carrasco getting all the accolades.
love me
Subject that gave name to the first album in the already vast production of Manuel Carrasco. It is one of the best examples of his influence on flamenco sounds.
Voice and guitar serve as a common thread, in a song that already embodied one of the unmistakable hallmarks of the Carrasco style: heartfelt interpretations that penetrate the skin.
Planetary Love
Another hit out of Dance the wind. If you compare this piece with love me, it shows, on the one hand, the maturity of an artist hardened by experience. On the other, the backing of an industrial machinery to produce music.
Manuel Carrasco is on the crest of the wave. And the public, for the moment, does not get tired.
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