Paco Saval (born ''Francisco Leiva-Saval''; June 25, 1950 in

Santiago, Chile Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital (political), capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated Regions of Chile, region, t ...

) is a keyboard player, producer, composer and singer based in Cologne.

Biography

Paco Saval was born in 1950 in Chile where he made his first records at the age of 15. In 1969 Saval moved to Madrid to study sound engineering. From there he moved to Leeds in 1975, where he worked with musicians of the

Leeds College of Music Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populatio ...

. In 1978 Saval came to Cologne and played in the band Santiago that won the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis in 1979. From 1980 he played in the Food Band and with many other bands such as the live band of the RTL Nachtshow, a late night show on German television. Saval was on tour with Rory Gallagher and Sally Oldfield. As producer of the Band of Gold he wrote the song "Love Songs Are Back Again" that stayed in the US Top 50 and UK singles charts for several weeks. For Miguel Ríos he wrote the song "En El Parque". Together with Knaller Delbrügge he composed and produced several jingles for German TV-station

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. Today Paco Saval plays in the Lance Harrison Band and together with Wolfram Burgtorf at Burgtorf/Saval. Paco Saval is very interested in commercial aviation, this was an inspiration for his song "Connie", an homage to the Lockheed Constellation.

Discography

Solo-Albums

* 1978 Borderline * 1985 Piña Colada

External links

Discography at Discogs

Burgtorf/Saval
{{DEFAULTSORT:Saval, Paco 1950 births Living people Chilean male composers 20th-century Chilean male singers Musicians from Cologne Rock keyboardists Musicians from Santiago 20th-century Chilean male artists