Joan Manuel Serrat i Teresa (; born 27 December 1943) is a Spanish musician, singer and composer. He is considered one of the most important figures of modern, popular music in both the
Spanish
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and
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languages.
Serrat's lyrical style has been influenced by other poets such as
Mario Benedetti
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,
Antonio Machado
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,
Miguel Hernández
Miguel Hernández Gilabert (30 October 1910 – 28 March 1942
) was a 20th-century Spanish-language poet and playwright associated with the Generation of '27 and the Generation of '36 movements. Born and raised in a family of low resources, h ...
,
Rafael Alberti
Rafael Alberti Merello (16 December 1902 – 28 October 1999) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. He is considered one of the greatest literary figures of the so-called ''Silver Age'' of Spanish Literature, and he won numerou ...
,
Federico García Lorca
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,
Pablo Neruda
Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nerud ...
, and
León Felipe
León Felipe Camino Galicia (11 April 1884 – 17 September 1968) was an anti-fascist Spanish poet.
Biography
Felipe was born in Tábara, Zamora, Spain, while his parents were travelling. His father was a public notary and comfortably off. ...
. He has also recorded songs by
Violeta Parra
Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval (; 4 October 1917 – 5 February 1967) was a Chilean composer, singer-songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist. She pioneered the Nueva Canción Chilena (The Chilean New Song), a renewal an ...
and
Víctor Jara
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. Serrat was one of the pioneers of what is known in Catalan as "
Nova Cançó
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" (
Nueva Canción
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). Joan Manuel Serrat is also known by the names "El noi del Poble-sec" and "El Nano".
Biography
Childhood
Joan Manuel Serrat i Teresa was born 27 December 1943 in the Poble-sec neighbourhood of
Barcelona
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, to members of a working family. His father, Josep Serrat, was a Catalan anarchist affiliated with the CNT and his mother, Ángeles Teresa, a housewife, was from Belchite,
Zaragoza
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in the region of
Aragon
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. His childhood and environment in his neighbourhood greatly impacted him, as a great number of his songs described
Catalonia
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Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the north ...
after the
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, lin ...
(examples are "La Carmeta", "La tieta" y "El drapaire" as stereotypical characters from his neighbourhood).
Early career
Serrat became involved with music at the age of 17 when he obtained his first guitar to which he dedicated one of his earliest songs, "Una guitarra". In the early 1960s, the young artist participated in a pop band, playing along with classmates at Barcelona's Agronomy School and performing mainly Beatles songs and Italian 'pop-of-the-era' songs translated to Spanish. In 1965, while singing in a radio show called Radioscope, host Salvador Escamilla helped him secure a record deal with local label Edigsa, from there joining the group
Els Setze Jutges
Els Setze Jutges (, meaning "The Sixteen Judges") was a group of singers in the Catalan language founded in 1961 by Miquel Porter i Moix, Remei Margarit, and Josep Maria Espinàs. The name comes from a well known tongue-twister in the Catalan langu ...
which defended the Catalan language during the Spanish State. In that same year, he recorded his first EP ''Una guitarra'' with the songs ''Una guitarra'', ''Ella em deixa'', ''La mort de l'avi'' and ''El mocador''. In 1966 appeared his second EP ''Ara que tinc vint anys'' with the songs ''Ara que tinc vint anys'', ''Quan arriba el fred'', ''El drapaire'' and ''Sota un cirerer florit''. In 1967 his first LP was released ''Ara que tinc vint anys'' which included some songs from previous EP recordings, as well as ''Balada per a un trobador'', ''Els vells amants'' and ''Els titelles''. Joan Manuel Serrat's first live stage performance in 1967 at the
Palau de la Música Catalana
Palau de la Música Catalana (, en, Palace of Catalan Music) is a concert hall in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Designed in the Catalan '' modernista'' style by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, it was built between 1905 and 1908 for O ...
, served to establish him as one of the most important artists inside the
Nova cançó
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movement in Catalonia.
The following year, Spain entered Serrat in the
Eurovision Song Contest 1968
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to sing "La, la, la", but he asked to sing it in
Catalan
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, to which the Spanish authorities would not agree. This would be the first time he would come into conflict with the
language politics of Francoist Spain
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, because of his decision to sing in his native
Catalan language
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, repressed by dictator
Francisco Franco
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. Defiantly, Serrat refused to sing the Spanish-language version, and was hurriedly replaced by
Massiel
María de los Ángeles Felisa Santamaría Espinosa (born 2 August 1947), professionally known as Massiel, is a Spanish pop singer. She won the Eurovision Song Contest 1968 with the song "La, la, la", beating the British pop singer Cliff Richard' ...
, who went on to win the contest with her Spanish-language interpretation.
1969–1976
Serrat's first son Queco is born in 1969, and in that same year he made his first tour to South America. He released an album containing songs with texts of
Antonio Machado
Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz (26 July 1875 – 22 February 1939), known as Antonio Machado, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation ...
, a well-known Spanish poet of late 19th-early 20th century. This album brought him immediate fame in all Spain and Latin America though, in spite of this, his decision to sing in Spanish was criticized in some Catalan nationalist circles. Regarding this and other times when his choice of language (sometimes Spanish, sometimes Catalan) raised controversy on either side of the political sphere, he once explained: "I sing better in the language they forbid me." He participated and won the song festival of
Rio de Janeiro
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in 1970 with his single "Penélope".
The release of the ''Mediterráneo'' LP in 1971 consolidated the artist's reputation worldwide. During that year, Serrat sang a seminal concert at the theater of the
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
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, which was highly influential in the Puerto Rican music community of the time, and which had repercussions as late as 2006.
In late 1974, Serrat was exiled in
Mexico
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due to his condemnation of capital punishment in
Francoist Spain
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. It wasn't until Franco's death on 20 November 1975 that Serrat was able to return to his homeland. In 1976, Joan Manuel Serrat was acclaimed for the first time in the United States, while performing in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York.
1977–1994
1995 to present
In January 1995, the Spanish government awarded him a medal for his contribution to Hispanic culture. That same year, a tribute album called ''Serrat, eres único'' was made to honour his career, featuring artists such as Diego Torres,
Ketama
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,
Rosario Flores
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She was born in Madrid, Spain, as the daughter of Antonio González ('El Pescaílla') and famou ...
,
Joaquín Sabina
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, and
Antonio Flores
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He was Romani on his father's side and maternal grandmother side.
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. In the same year, he toured "Nadie es Perfecto", through several countries in Latin American. In February 1995, Serrat gave a concert at University of Lima, in Lima, Peru. On 28 November 1998, Serrat performed the ''
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'' during the
FC Barcelona
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Centenary festival at the Camp Nou.
In 2000, the Spanish Association of Authors and Editors (
SGAE
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) awarded him with one of ten Medals of the Century.
Serrat revealed in October 2004 that he had been undergoing treatment for cancer of the
urinary bladder
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and in November that year he had to cancel a tour of Latin America and the US in order to undergo surgery in Barcelona, where he still lives.
His signature song "Mediterráneo" was selected as the most important song of the 20th century in Spain.
His recovery was satisfactory, and in 2005 he went on tour again ("Serrat 100×100") around Spain and Latin America with his lifelong producer and arranger, Ricard Miralles. During the tour Serrat played symphonic versions of his songs with local symphony orchestras.
A second volume of ''Serrat, eres único'' was also released this year, featuring
Alejandro Sanz
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,
Estopa
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, and Pasión Vega. Around the same time, Cuban artists such as
Silvio Rodríguez
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,
Pablo Milanés
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,
Chucho Valdés
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, and
Ibrahim Ferrer
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came together to make another tribute CD, ''Cuba le canta a Serrat''.
By 2006, the theater of the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras where Serrat sang in 1970 had undergone a multimillion-dollar renovation, after being closed for ten years. The university planned to reopen the theater with Serrat as its first popular culture act, thus recalling his first performance there. However, student protests over the university conceding private entities control over some theater administration functions ended up in a physical confrontation between some student leaders and patrons attending the theater's inaugural gala, the day before Serrat's first scheduled performance. As a result, the concerts had to be postponed and changed to another venue. Serrat felt particularly uneasy about the whole situation; when he was pressed to take sides in the controversy he opted to remain neutral.
In 2006, Serrat also released Mô, his first album completely in
Catalan
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in 17 years. The album title refers to the city of Mahón, capital of the Spanish island of
Menorca
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, where he likes to get away from it all during long touring seasons.
In 2017 and 2018, he carried a tour named "Mediterraneo da Capo" to commemorate the 47th anniversary of his mythical record "Mediterraneo".
Serrat is a part owner of th Mas Perinet winery producing both DO Montsant and DOC Priorat wines in La Morera de Montsant.
Legacy
There are many artists and authors of songs that have paid homage to the figure and work of Joan Manuel Serrat. Among the most noteworthy are ''Ahí te mando mi guitarra, Juan Manuel'', composed by
Manuel Alejandro
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and played by
Blanca Villa
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while Serrat was in exile for his statements against the death penalty; the recent ''Maldito Serrat'' by the Argentine singer-songwriter Ignacio Copani; ''Mi primo el Nano'', composed by his friend
Joaquín Sabina
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, and the ''Canción para un maño'', a song by
Georges Brassens
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As an iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his elegant songs with their harmonically complex music for voice and guitar and a ...
adapted by
Paco Ibáñez
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.
Apart from these songs that deal exclusively with the figure of Joan Manuel Serrat, there are others that mention the name of Joan Manuel Serrat or some of his songs. These are the cases of
Alberto Cortez
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in his live version of ''No soy de aquí'', by Joaquín Sabina himself when he recorded ''No hago otra cosa que pensar en ti'' on the album '' Serrat, eres único'', of
Presuntos Implicados
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in "Ser de agua" or of singer-songwriters like
Juan Carlos Baglietto
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Fito Páez
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Paez was born in Rosario, Santa Fe Province; ...
,
Javier Ruibal
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Fernando Delgadillo
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,
Ricardo Arjona
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Guillermina Motta
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Hernaldo Zúñiga
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,
Liuba María Hevia
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composed, although more than in homage was a harsh criticism towards Serrat for his decision of Joan Manuel to sing also in Spanish. Also noteworthy is the humorous version of the song ''Ara que tinc vint anys'', which La Trinca recorded with a change in title: ''Ara que tinc 80 anys''.
Political Views
In 1974, during a visit to Mexico, an arrest warrant was issued for Serrat in Spain after he criticised the death penalty and the "established and official violence" of the Dictatorship of General Franco. Serrat lived in exile for the remainder of the dictatorship, returning after the death of Franco in 1975 and Spain's return to democracy.
In several of his statements he has criticized the independence movement of Catalonia and the referendum of 1 October 2017, becoming a figure for Catalans who choose the union of Spain. He has also criticized several times the economic corruption of the independentist Catalan government and the national government of Mariano Rajoy. Serrat holds the view that the 2017 unilateral Catalan Nationalist push for secession and the reaction from the government of Mariano Rajoy served the purpose of "covering up years of cuts and economic corruption" from both the Catalan regional government and Spanish national government. On several occasions some in the independence movement called for a boycott against the singer-songwriter.
Select discography
Albums
* 1967: ''Ara que tinc Vint Anys''
* 1968: ''Cançons Tradicionals''
* 1969: ''Com ho fa el Vent''
* 1969: ''La Paloma''
* 1969: ''Dedicado a Antonio Machado, poeta''
* 1970: ''Serrat IV''
* 1971: ''
Mediterráneo
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''
* 1972: ''Vagabundear''
* 1972: ''Miguel Hernández''
* 1973: ''Per al meu Amic''
* 1974: ''Canción Infantil''
* 1975: ''...Para Piel de Manzana''
* 1976: ''Retratos''
* 1977: ''Res no és Mesquí''
* 1978: ''1978''
* 1979: ''Mi Niñez''
* 1980: ''Tal com Raja''
* 1981: ''En Tránsito''
* 1983: ''Cada Loco con su Tema''
* 1984: ''Fa Vint Anys que tinc Vint Anys''
* 1984: ''En Directo''
* 1985: ''El Sur También Existe''
* 1986: ''Sinceramente Teu''
* 1987: ''Bienaventurados''
* 1989: ''Material Sensible''
* 1992: ''Utopía'' List of number-one albums of 1992 (Spain)
* 1994: ''Nadie es Perfecto''
* 1996: ''Banda Sonora d'un Temps d'un País''
* 1996: ''El Gusto Es Nuestro''
* 1998: ''Sombras de la China''
* 2000: ''Cansiones (Tarrés)''
* 2002: ''Versos en la Boca''
* 2003: ''Serrat Sinfónico''
* 2006: ''Mô''
* 2007: ''Dos Pájaros de un Tiro''
* 2010: ''Hijo de la Luz y de la Sombra''
* 2012: ''
La orquesta del Titanic
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The name of the album is a nod to the music ...
''
*2012: Serrat & Sabina En El Luna Park
*2015: En Bellas Artes
Tribute albums
* 1969:
Tete Montoliu
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*
Doctor honoris causa
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by
National University of Comahue
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Cuernavaca
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Morelos
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Mexico
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), 16 May 2003.
* Doctor honoris causa by
National University of Córdoba
The National University of Córdoba ( es, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba,) is an institution of higher education in the city of Córdoba, Argentina.
Founded in 1613, the university is the oldest in Argentina, the third oldest university of t ...
(
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
), 25 November 2005.
* Doctor honoris causa for the
Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla
The Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) (Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla) is the oldest and largest university in Puebla, Mexico. Founded on 15 April 1578 as Colegio del Espíritu Santo, the school was sponsored by th ...
(
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
), 12 January 2006.
* Doctor honoris causa by the
Complutense University of Madrid
The Complutense University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; UCM, links=no, ''Universidad de Madrid'', ''Universidad Central de Madrid''; la, Universitas Complutensis Matritensis, links=no) is a public research university loca ...
, on 15 March 2006.
* Doctor honoris causa by
Miguel Hernández University of Elche
The Miguel Hernández University (''UMH'', es, Universidad Miguel Hernández, ca-valencia, Universitat Miguel Hernández, lat, Universitas Miguel Hernández illicitana, IPA), is a Spanish Public University offering education, research ...
, on 21 May 2010.
* Doctor honoris causa by
Pompeu Fabra University
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of Barcelona, on 14 June 2011.
* Honorary Doctorate from the
National Autonomous University of Mexico
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, on 22 September 2011.
* Honorary Doctorate from the
Autonomous University of Mexico State
The Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM) (Autonomous University of Mexico State) is a public university in the State of Mexico, Mexico. It is the largest university institution in the state with over 84,500 students, with its centra ...
, on 13 October 2015
* Premios Micrófono de Oro award of Castile and León (Spain), in 2003.
* Gold Medal of the city of Barcelona, on 24 March 2006.
* His Mediterráneo song was chosen as the best song of the 20th century Spanish language by the
Rolling Stone
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Magazine, in 2006.
* Spanish Gold Medal of Merit at Work medal for his entire career, on 25 March 2006.
* Medal of Honor of
Parliament of Catalonia
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, in 2007.
* Premio Nacional de Músicas Actuales award, in 2010.
*
Order of the Aztec Eagle
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History
It was created by decree on December 29, 193 ...
in insignia degree, by the federal government of
Mexico
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Joaquín Sabina
Joaquín Ramón Martínez Sabina (born 12 February 1949) is a Spanish musician, singer, composer, and poet. His songs usually treat about love, heartbreaks and society with a large usage of literary figures similarly to the baroque-literature st ...
. (2013).
*
Latin Grammy
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Order of James I the Conqueror
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* Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood
* Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...
, 2017.
* Doctor Honoris Causa by the
National University of Rosario
The National University of Rosario ( es, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, UNR) is a research public university located in the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina.
Overview
Rosario National University (UNR) was created in 1968 by ...
(UNR) (Argentina), on 7 October 2017
* Grand Cross of the
Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise
The Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise ( es, Orden Civil de Alfonso X el Sabio) is a Spanish civil order established in 1939, recognising activities in the fields of education, science, culture, higher education and research.
The order was create ...