The former Duncan Dhu leader became a successful solo artist, pouring his passion into stirring guitar-and-string-backed evocations of love lost and regained. The Venezuela-born Spaniard combines the honesty of John Lennon with the epic theatricality of Bruce Springsteen, the dark, worn streets of Madrid serving as his New Jersey. Erentxun's 2015 album Corazones—Spanish for "hearts"—transformed a very real coronary emergency into a moving metaphor for what, in his view, matters most.