Miguel Ríos

Miguel Ríos Campaña (Granada; 7 June 1944) is a Spanish rock singer-songwriter and one of the pioneers of rock in Spain.

He has been active since the 1960s, when he was known as Mike Ríos, the King of the Twist, and his greatest success came with ‘Himno a la alegría’, whose English version, ‘A Song of Joy’, was a worldwide hit thanks to the arrangements of orchestra conductor Waldo de los Ríos. His best-selling album is Rock and Ríos, a double live album released in 1982, regarded as the most emblematic show in the history of rock in Spanish. Five years later, he successfully presented the programme ¡Qué noche la de aquel año! on Televisión Española, with great support in production, a review of the history of rock music in Spain. Since then he has collaborated with countless artists from Spain and Latin America and taken part in various tours with some of them, as well as recording versions of some of their most emblematic songs, as in the case of his tours alongside Sabina, Víctor Manuel, Ana Belén or Serrat, or in recordings of successful songs by Joan Manuel Serrat, Roque Narvaja, Moris, Charly García or Alejandro Lerner. Over these years his style has ranged from the most primitive rock and roll to progressive or pop and, in recent years, towards jazz with big band or blues.