Sebastian Santa Maria (September 24, 1959-October 20, 1996) was a Chilean-Swiss musician. He was born in 1959 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 ...
, but settled in
Lausanne, Switzerland
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at age 17.
He played the
piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...
in several clubs in Lausanne until beginning a fertile career as a composer, composing a number of songs including some made for
Catherine Lara
Catherine Lara (born Catherine Bodet; 29 May 1945) is a French violinist, composer, singer, and author. Over a career spanning more than five decades, she has established herself as an icon in French pop/rock music as well as the neo-classical g ...
,
Bernard Lavilliers
Bernard Oulion (; born 7 October 1946 in Saint-Étienne), known professionally as Bernard Lavilliers (), is a French singer-songwriter and actor.
Discography Albums
Studio albums
* ''Premiers pas...'' (1968)
* ''Les poètes'' (1972)
* ''Le St� ...
, for
Viktor Lazlo's album
My Delicious Poisons
''My Delicious Poisons'' is the fourth studio album by French-Belgian singer Viktor Lazlo. A French version of the album was recorded and released in France, entitled ''Mes Poisons Délicieux''. The album was not as successful as its predecessors ...
and
Isabelle Adjani
Isabelle Yasmina Adjani ; born 27 June 1955) is a French actress and singer of Algerian and German descent. She is the only performer in history to win five César Awards for acting; she won the Best Actress award for '' Possession'' (1981), '' ...
.
Beside these composer activities, he also played numerous piano duet jazz concerts with
François Lindemann, and a few years later he founded with Lindemann a unique group of seven Steinways called
Piano Seven.
He also participated on the reincarnation of British band
The Zombies
The Zombies are an English rock band formed in the early 1960s in St Albans and led by keyboardist and vocalist Rod Argent and vocalist Colin Blunstone. The group had a British and American hit in 1964 with "She's Not There". In the US, two fu ...
, playing on their 1991 album, ''
New World
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''. As a solo artist, he released a few singles and one full-length album (''
Latino
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* Latino (demonym), a term used in the United States for people with cultural ties to Latin America
* Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States
* The people or cultures of Latin America;
** Latin A ...
'', 1994). A second album, ''
Corpus
Corpus is Latin for "body". It may refer to:
Linguistics
* Text corpus, in linguistics, a large and structured set of texts
* Speech corpus, in linguistics, a large set of speech audio files
* Corpus linguistics, a branch of linguistics
Music
* ...
'', was released posthumously in 1997.
Santa Maria died of
adrenoleukodystrophy
Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) is a disease linked to the X chromosome. It is a result of fatty acid buildup caused by peroxisomal fatty acid beta oxidation which results in the accumulation of very long chain fatty acids in tissues throughout the bo ...
in 1996 in Lausanne.
External links
Official webpage
Latino*
1959 births
1996 deaths
Swiss male composers
Chilean composers
Chilean male composers
20th-century male musicians
The Lucky Strikes members
The Zombies members
20th-century Swiss composers
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