El Sereno

In 1999, after my grandfather passed away, I was told by my mother that he used to write poems and that there was a notebook where my grandmother had saved some. Then, in 2001, when I was asked to write a song for my composition class at the conservatory, I thought of my grandfather's poems, got a copy of the notebook and chose the poem El Sereno, which makes reference to the people who once lit the lamps and guarded the streets at night in Madrid.