Joaquín Carbonell Martí (12 August 1947 – 12 September 2020) was a Spanish singer-songwriter, journalist and poet.
Biography
Carbonell was born in
Alloza,
Teruel, the son of a Republican teacher. He studied in a
Salesian institute in
Barcelona
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, but at age 15 he dropped out of school and started working in a hotel. For some years he worked as a waiter and sommelier in various resorts on the
Catalan coast in summer, and in his family's
oil mill in Alloza in winter; in 1967 he resumed his studies at the Ibáñez Martín Institute in Teruel, where he started writing about music.
During the 1970s, Carbonell started writing songs and was among the founders of the "new Aragonese song" movement, along with his mentor
José Antonio Labordeta. He recorded more than a dozen albums as a singer-songwriter, two of which were dedicated to the figure of French singer-songwriter
Georges Brassens. Carbonell also directed and presented several TVE television programs in Aragon. He also started working as a poet and narrator, as well as a journalist for
El Periódico de Aragón, in which he wrote a section of interviews and television criticism under the title "Antena paranoica". As a musician, he created songs related to the
Real Zaragoza football club, such as "Corazón de León", "Zaragol" and the official anthem of the club's seventy-fifth anniversary.
Carbonell often performed at the Barnasants Festival in Barcelona and in cities in France such as
Pau,
Toulouse
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,
Saint Jory and Paris. He toured in three occasions to Argentina where he performed in concert halls in
Buenos Aires
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,
Rosario
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,
La Plata
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as well as in
Montevideo
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(Uruguay), Chile and Costa Rica.
On 29 September 2014, he participated in a concert in Zaragoza in tribute to José Labordeta. In the fall of 2014 Carbonell also released a double compilation album entitled 1 vida & 19 canciones. In 2017 he released a new album with unreleased songs entitled El carbón y la rosa.
Carbonell died on 12 September 2020, in
Zaragoza
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from
COVID-19
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The symptoms of COVID‑19 can vary but often include fever ...
during the
COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, aged 73.
Fallece por coronavirus Joaquín Carbonell, figura clave de la cultura popular aragonesa
Discography
* ''Con la ayuda de todos'' (1976)
* ''Dejen pasar'' (1977)
* ''Semillas'' (1978)
* ''Sin ir más lejos'' (1979)
* ''Carbonell canta a Brassens'' (1996)
* ''Tabaco y Cariño'' (1998)
* ''Homenage a trois'' (2000)
* ''Sin móvil ni coartada'' (2003)
* ''La tos del trompestista'' (2005)
* ''Cantautores en directo. El concierto!'' (2007)
* ''Clásica y moderna'' (2008)
* ''Vayatrés!'' (2009), with José Antonio Labordeta and La Bullonera
* ''Una tarde con Labordeta'' (2013), with Eduardo Paz
* ''1 vida & 19 canciones'' (2014)
* ''El carbón y la rosa'' (2017)
* ''Los 3 Norteamericanos. Live in Cariñena'' (2018)
* ''Carbonell 50 años'' (2020)
Books
* ''Misas separadas'' (poems, 1987)
* ''Laderas del ternero'' (poems, 1994)
* ''La mejor tarde de Goyo Letrinas'' (novel, 1995)
* ''Las estrellas no beben agua del grifo'' (novel, 2000)
* ''El pastor de Andorra, 90 años de Jota'' (biography of José Iranzo Bielsa, 2005)
References
External links
Official web page of Joaquín Carbonell
En concert avec Tonton Georges Trio
Joaquín Carbonell, mucho más que un cantautor español -RAE argentina al mundo
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1947 births
2020 deaths
20th-century Spanish male singers
20th-century Spanish singers
Spanish male songwriters
Spanish poets
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain