Lluís Serrahima i Villavecchia (19 August 1931 – 26 July 2020) was a Spanish singer-songwriter. Born in

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

, he was known as the founder of the

Nova Cançó The Nova Cançó (, meaning in English "The New Song") was an artistic movement that promoted Catalan music in Francoist Spain. The movement sought to normalize use of the Catalan language in popular music and denounced the injustices in Francoi ...

, a music genre that became popular during the

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regime. In the 1980s, he became vocal in the

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. Serrahima died on 26 July 2020 in Barcelona, aged 88.Fallece Lluís Serrahima, uno de los padres de la Nova Cançó
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