Unai Sordo grew up with the Círculo de Lectores, books and vinyl records that he eagerly consumed.
For Unai Sordo, culture intertwines with life in a fascinating way, one that a humble boy from Barakaldo could never have imagined. Since his adolescence, he was the one who used the Círculo de Lectores subscription at home to buy books and records. Each month, he chose a title by his favorite writers, or a vinyl by singers he admired, like Joan Manuel Serrat or Miguel Ríos… He listened to them over and over again. Before they became scratched, he copied them onto a TDK tape, thanks to a dual-deck player. Those technological artifacts could easily be in a museum today, because the evolution of objects is unpredictable, but so is the evolution of people. Unai himself, when he thinks that over the years he sang 19 Days and 500 Nights on stage with Joaquín Sabina, asks himself, and asks us: "How could that be?" And he clarifies that it happened in the context of a congress of CC.OO., the union he leads.
Now he continues listening to singers of the same persuasion (guitar), Ismael Serrano, Rozalén, and reading Luis García Montero and Almudena Grandes, but he still marvels that this humble boy from Barakaldo can count such distinguished people among his friends. During the pandemic, he took to reading and writing. From those terrible months, a book emerged, Cuentos de oficio (Work Stories), a collection of stories about the suffering at work and the rights that constitute the essence of his life. To present it, he once again enlisted his illustrious friends.
He confesses to being a big reader, and continues to discover new authors, such as David UclésHe confesses to being a keen reader, and continues to discover new authors, such as David Uclés, whose magnificent novel about the civil war , The Peninsula of Empty Houses, he recommends, without forgetting a classic like 1984 , by Orwell, which he has actually read.
He is fascinated by Argentine cinema, especially Adolfo Aristaráin, director of two of his favorite films: Martín Hache and Un lugar en el mundo . Unai Sordo still occasionally echoes the voice of Martín Jr., contradicting his father's pessimism about Argentina: "Everything can change," says the young rebel (for the worse, some would add today). But Unai Sordo refuses to spoil the celebration of hope. To the spirit of that humble boy from Barakaldo, he has incorporated that of the young Martín from Buenos Aires. In fact, it could be his confident motto: "Everything can change."
He considers himself a humble boy from Barakaldo
US Ceded- Song: I give you a song , by Silvio Rodríguez.
- Podcast: We Don't Talk About That , by Isabel Cadenas Cañón
- Book: Episodes of an Endless War , by Almudena Grandes
- Series: The Ministry of Time
- Film: Martín Hache, by Adolfo Aristarain
- Play: A Moonless Night , by Juan Diego Botto and Sergio Peris-Mencheta
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