On the bottom flooring of Manolo’s home there’s a treasure that just a few find out about. There are 225 distinctive guitars that he has been amassing for many years and that the water that handed just some meters from his home in Roca de la Sierra was about to remove. “If the home had fallen, I do not care,” says Manolo, however the guitars are his biggest treasure.
In his city, the nationwide epicenter of the storm, few homes have been saved from the mud and flooding. “My personal neighbor subsequent door has gotten it,” Manolo says as he sighs in reduction. The slope of the road has allowed the miracle… that not a single drop of water has slipped into Manolo’s home and all his guitars have been saved.
“After my household, they’re what I really like probably the most,” says this 61-year-old neighbor who loves music. “I began as a toddler enjoying drums made with cubes, a can of sardines and a few sticks”, explains Manolo. From there he switched to keyboards and at last turned keen on the guitar, with which he was enjoying in varied teams and orchestras and with which he nonetheless continues to carry out.
Some of Manolo.NIUS’s guitars
He began out with only one guitar. Then a substitute. Later one other one for different kinds of performances… And when he realized it, Manolo had began a set. “I do not know when it began precisely,” he confesses to NIUS, who acknowledges that greater than a interest it’s a illness. “I simply purchased a guitar for greater than 2,000 euros and I’m already fascinated by the subsequent one”.
Among its jewels there are precise and approved replicas of guitars belonging to nice names in music resembling John Lennon, Elvis Presley or Queen. However, amongst his favorites is that of an area musician from the La Roca group that again in 1958 turned in style within the space. “He did not need to promote it to me,” says Manolo, “and ultimately he gave it to me for being heavy.”
rock of the sierra
All this was at risk yesterday when the storm Efraín because it handed by means of Spain determined to hit Roca de la Sierra, a small city within the province of Badajoz with 1,500 inhabitants. The storm has brought on quite a few injury all through the city and but Manolo’s home and guitars haven’t been affected.
“I might have most well-liked that my Mercedes break down,” he assures NIUS. His guitars are his path by means of life and behind every of them there’s a reminiscence. If he had misplaced them, a very good a part of Manolo’s story would have ceased to sound with them.