The singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serratwith more than fifty years of career and author of Mediterrneo, considered one of the best songs in Spanish music of all time, has been honored this Wednesday with the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts 2024.
Serrat (Barcelona, 1943) has recorded more than 500 songs, more than 40 albums and has set music to the verses of the greatest poets in Spanishsuch as Antonio Machado, Miguel Hernndez, Neruda, Benedetti, Alberti, Lorca or Len Felipe.
Author of hits such as Penlope, Palabras de amor or Cada loco con su themeSerrat announced his retirement from the stage in 2021 with the El vicio de cantar 1965-2022 tour, which will close with a memorable performance at the Palau San Jordi in Barcelona on December 27, 2022.
Serrat was pioneer of the Catalan Nova Cano and a prominent voice against the repression and injustices of the Franco regime, which earned him arrests, fines and even exile in Mexico for a year, but also the protagonist of the scandal that led to his resigns from singing at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1968, for not being able to sing in Catalan the La, la, la with which Massiel won doing it in Spanish.
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