Manual Joan Serrat

Joan Manuel Serrat I Teresa (born the December 27th 1943 with Barcelona) is one of largest the Catalan song writer and performer and Spanish.

He is the son of a Catalan and Aragonese, being thus a xarnego . Because it continued to sing as a Catalan, it was in conflict with the dictatorship of Francisco Franco and emigrated in 1975 with the Mexico, but returned to Spain the following year, after the death of Free. It was had a presentiment of to represent Spain with the contest of Eurovision, but one preferred finally another candidate to him (the Massiel singer who carried finally the first price with the same song) because it persisted in wanting to interpret as a Catalan (and not in Spanish) the song " , La" , this in order to draw the attention to the marginalisation of the Catalan language in Spain.

He is regarded as one of the founders of the Nova Cançó. He is the author of more than 300 songs, written either as a Catalan ( Pare , Plany Al mar , Ara that tinct came anys etc), or in Spanish ( Mediterráneo , You number me sabe has yerba , Hoy puede ser a gran día , has Usted , El carrusel del Furo , Toca will madera , Vagabundear , Pueblo blanco etc), and good number of them became " classiques". It is very known in the Spanish-speaking world, in addition to the catalanophonie, because texts of its songs its very innovative, concerning subjects which were prohibited at the time: sex, policy, corruption, repression.

At the end of the years 1970, it was locked up with the Monastery of Montserrat, in Barcelona, with other intellectuals and artists, to protest against the lawsuit of Burgos and the capital punishment.

In 1971 it left its album Mediterraneo , one of its most important discs. It then becomes one of the principal symbols of freedom in Spain and Latin America. In this disc, one finds a song carrying the same title, and which expresses in a way very moving and inspired love of Joan Manuel Serrat for the Mediterranean close from which it was born.

In 1975, following certain declarations it had to leave in exile to Mexico during one year, following a warrant for arrest launched against him by the government of Free. Several of its songs then are censured and prohibited.

In 1978, he marries Candela Tiffón, and has, one year later, a named girl María.

In 1983 it carries out a great round in South America, except in Chile, still controlled by Pinochet, and where its works are prohibited.

He will go several times to Chile after Pinochet left the capacity. Thus, in 2006, it will return visit to Michelle Bachelet, socialist Chilean president lately elected, and will offer some bottles of its personal vineyard to him, which it has exploited for several years. It became international when it put in music some worms of Spanish poets, such as Antonio Machado, Miguel Hernández and León Felipe. In its paternal language, it put in music works of Joan Salvat Papasseit, one of the largest Catalan poets. Artists Cuba ins paid to him homage with a superb album of Reprise again S Cuba laid it has Serrat .

At the end of 2003, it leaves a new disc " Serrat Sinfonico" with the Symphony orchestra of Barcelona and National of Catalonia, under the musical direction of Joan Amargós. On this disc, where the songs of Serrat are arranged for orchestra, one finds 15 songs already known, and a news, of which the text, " Herido de Amor" is to the poet Federico García Lorca.

In 2004, the newspaper " El Periódico de Catalunya" he decree the price " Català of Any" (" Catalan of the année") in homage has its 40 years of career.

March 15th, 2006, it received the title of doctor honoris causa of the University of Madrid for its contribution to the cultures Spanish and Catalan. It obtains then the Gold medal of the Merit to Work for the whole of its career.

April 18th, 2006, Serrat leaves a new disc (" Mô" , abbreviation of the name of the town of Mahon, capital of the Spanish island of Minorque, where the singer has a house and spends the summers) of songs as a Catalan. It has been about its first production in this language for 17 years. Serrat then undertakes a promotional tour of its disc in all Spain.

In 2007, the newspaper " El Periódico de Catalunya" publish a collection " Serrat Personal" of 16 discs chosen by Manual Joan Serrat and with texts written by him to present these discs and the people who took part in it. It organizes moreover one new round, with the singer Joaquin Sabina, entitled Dos pajaros of a tiro . And in 2007 also the title of Knight of the Légion of honor of the French Republic received.

Discography

Ara that tinc came anys (Edigsa, 1967)
Cançons tradicionals (Edigsa, 1967)
COM Ho F el wind (Edigsa, 1968)
the paloma (Zafiro/Novola, 1969)
Dedicado has Antonio Machado, poeta (Zafiro/Novola, 1969)
Serrat 4 (Edigsa, 1970)
Mi niñez (Zafiro/Novola, 1970)
Mediterráneo (Zafiro/Novola, 1971)
Miguel Hernández (Zafiro/Novola, 1972)
Per Al meu amic (Edigsa, 1973)
Para to vivir ( Canción infantil para despertar has una paloma morena very will primaveras ) (Zafiro/Novola, 1974)
… Para piel of manzana (Ariola, 1975)
LMBO No be mesquí (Edigsa, 1977)
1978 (Ariola, 1978)
Tal COM rajah (Ariola, 1980)
In tránsito (Ariola, 1981)
Cada loco idiot known tema (Ariola, 1983)
Fa came anys that tinc came anys (Ariola, 1984)
In directo (Ariola, 1984)
El on también exists (Ariola, 1985)
Sinceramente teu (with María Bethania, Raimundo Fagner, Gall Costa, Caetano Veloso and Toquinho) (Ariola, 1986)
Bienaventurados (Ariola, 1987)
sensitive Material (Ariola, 1989)
Utopía (Ariola, 1992)
Nadie be perfecto (Ariola, 1994)
Banda will sonora of a time of a país (Ariola, 1996)
El gusto are nuestro (with Anna Belén, Miguel Ríos and Víctor Manuel) (Ariola, 1996)
Liliana, Historia de Babar there Viaje with the luna (account and music, Audivis Ibérica, 1997)
Liliana, Història de Babar I Viatge with the lluna (account and music, Audivis Ibérica, 1997)
Sombras of Clouded (Ariola, 1998)
Cansiones (Ariola, 2000)
Versos in the boca (BMG, 2002)
Serrat sinfónico (BMG, 2003)
Mo (BMG, 2006)

Participation: Recovery of its song Lucia in Bachata in Duet with Víctor Víctor on the album Bachata between amigos

Discs in homage to Manual Joan Serrat

Serrat, eras único (BMG Ariola, 1995)
Serrat, eras único (volume 2) (BMG Ariola, 2005)
Cuba laid it has Serrat (Discmedi, 2005)
Per Al meu amic Serrat (Discmedi, 2006)
Cuba laid it has Serrat (volume 2) (Discmedi, 2007)

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