Enrique Helguera de la Villa

Enrique Helguera de la Villa

ENRIQUE HELGUERA DE LA VILLA, lawyer, journalist and music critic, was born in Mexico City in 1958, the son and grandson of the Republican exile, but the hazards of life brought him back to Madrid very soon and gave him time to live, in black and white, the last decade of Francoism and, in technicolor and with 3D glasses, everything that happened afterwards.

Collaborator since its foundation in La Luna in Madrid, he edited the magazine Sur Exprés and was secretary of ARCE (Association of Cultural Magazines of Spain) for more than a decade (1987-1998) as well as director of its publication Pautas.

He has collaborated in many other written media on both sides of the Atlantic such as El Viejo Topo (magazine of which he is a member), Cuadernos de Jazz, Experimenta, Intramuros, RockdeLux, EnlaceFunk, El Mundo, Heraldo de Aragón, El Estado Mental, Le Courrier International, La Jornada and Letras Libre. He has also been musical advisor for the documentaries "I do case to the heart" (Warner, 2006) and "The Mexican Corrido: Music and horns of goats" (TVE2, 2007) and of the compilations of the book-records "Que te va bonito ”(Warner, 2006) and“ The diversity of the music of Mexico ”(FNAC, Manufacturers of Ideas, 2007). His career on the air began with the weekly program Hora México (Radio Círculo, 2002-2004), and has conducted the radio programs "Trazos de la palabra" and "Mesa de Mezclas" on Estado Mental Radio (2011), as well as a section with the name of the latter for the W. Radio Newscast “Así las cosas” (Prisa, México 2011).

Since 2008 he has been one of the explorers of the endless musical galaxy in the weekly program "Sonideros" (Radio 3, Radio Nacional de España), which is broadcast every Sunday, in that time frame when the lights are entangled with their shadows .