Jim Morrison singer of the group The doors is considered one of the most important representatives of rock in history . He died in 1971, his musical legacy continues to mark different generations.

Due to the times, his way of working on music with his colleagues (Manzarek, Densmore and Kriegger) was analogous. We had to play, look at each other’s faces, try parts and arrangements over and over again, with the amps heating up. They were different times.

This is how in 1969, the interpreter of Riders on the Storm He commented in an interview on his vision of the music of the future. In the audiovisual recording, we see that The poet also speaks of a supposition that he projected for posterity.

“Rock is dying,” he said. “The music of the new generation will be a mixture of elements…maybe it will lean a lot towards electronic music.” He imagined a single person in front of a machine, composing the pieces of songs that we have been listening to for several years.

At one point, this can be seen as a prediction that the artist made, understanding how the music industry worked, and anticipate changes inside. If he could see the current scenario, he could confirm that his words were largely fulfilled, although, among other things, rock is not dead. Morrison’s voice remains as current as ever.

James Douglas Morrison was born on December 8, 1943 , in Melbourne, Florida. However, his life was marked by changes, since his father devoted himself to military activity.

Since childhood, he was passionate about words, both reading and writing. Poems were his thing. .

Before the age of twenty, he left to live alone in Los Angeles to study cinema where he continues to cultivate his love for poetry and ventured for the first time into drugs . Likewise, he immersed himself in reading authors such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Aldous Huxley, Jack Kerouac, Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Baudelaire.

In 1965, he obtained his cinema diploma and had an encounter that would change his life. Ray Manzarek – who would later become a keyboardist in the band they formed – was enchanted by their poems. It has been said. Together they would form a group.

This is how the beginning of The doors , one of the groups that quickly became representatives of rock. The producer’s eyes Paul A. Rothschild They captured the band’s talent, leading them to release their self-titled debut album with the single Light my fire which propelled them to stardom.

After a journey through drugs, scandals and alcohol, Morrison gives up music and goes to Paris to write . Following his stay in Europe, he published two books, The gentlemen, The new creatures, and later, the poems An American Prayer And American prayer.

In 1971, the singer-songwriter was found dead in the bathtub of his apartment. Thus, one of the greatest figures in music died at 27 as well as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Amy Winehouse.