Since his first published book (REVELACIONES / Un alegato contra el linchamiento de que fue objeto mediática y judicialmente en el caso Andrade-Trevi , plus 53 poems, plus 7 short stories / Editorial Planeta / 2002 / ISBN: 970-690-679-7), the Coatzacoalcos,Veracruz(MEX) born author, SERGIO ANDRADE, (known in musical and recording circles as "El Rey Midas" / "King Midas"), has made it clear, that his originality and iconoclastic richness of style, in fiction and poetry, are his trademark. Being a natural writer since the age of five, he used to write little poems and romances already in his early childhood. Pretty well known as a singer and composer of worldwide hit songs, recorded by such artists as Herb Alpert (A&M), Franck Pourcel (EMI), and many others from Latin America (Yuri, Lucero, María Martha Serra Lima, etc.), he has continuously written, poetry and prose, from the launching of his author's career, in 2002, until now, making the literature, another way of expressing his enormous artistic talent.
"Para mí, la poesía es la música del lenguaje, del mundo, del ser más íntimo del hombre; y la novela, la ficción, es la memoria de sus más caros sueños", he says about his art. (For me, poetry is the music of the language, of the world, of the most intimate root of the human being; and novel, fiction, is the memory of his dearest dreams".
In 2006, it appeared DE LO PERDIDO, LO QUE APAREZCA / Una colección de sus nuevos poemas / Editorial Literalia / 2006 (ISBN: 968-5544-36-0), and the next year, LA SANGRE INÚTIL y otros cuentos eróticos (THE USELESS BLOOD and another erotic short stories) / Ediciones B / 2007 (ISBN: 970-710-236-5), which became a scandal in the literary circuits of his country, because of his avant garde style and the reckless treatment of sexual issues.
Having lived a stormy personal life during which he was even imprisoned under the charges of statutory rape and corruption of minors ( from latter, he was completely acquitted), Andrade has become a symbol and a legend in Latin America, those of the tormented and self constructed old style tough man, and he is now, by his fifties, a cult singer- composer-writer by his own merits. Hundreds of thousands of visits to his songs and videos' YouTube Channel, show that there is a huge interest from the audiences, in knowing what it'll be like his next work of art.
Sergio Andrade's first novel, MALALIENTO ( Una novela alucinante sobre el México en deconstrucción / One hallucinating novel about México in deconstruction), depicts the actual conditions which brought México -from 1968 up to date- to its prominent status among the most corrupted and violent countries in the world. It will surely add one more pearl to his brilliant and controversial writing career.
