Jordi Sabatés Navarro (

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 ...

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, 23 October 1948 – Barcelona, 10 January 2022) was a Spanish pianist, composer, and arranger.

Biography

In his youth, he was a member of the folk-rock band

Pic-Nic Pic-Nic was a Spanish teenage folk-pop and sunshine pop band formed in Barcelona in the mid-to-late 1960s, composed of lead singer Jeanette (Spanish singer), Jeanette, guitarists Toti Soler and Al Cárdenas, drummer Jordi Barangé and bassist ...

. He later joined the

progressive rock Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early-to-mid-1970s. Initially termed " progressive pop", the ...

band Om. He composed also several film scores, mainly documentaries such as ''

Bola de Nieve Bola de Nieve (literally ''Snowball''; 11 September 1911 – 2 October 1971), born Ignacio Jacinto Villa Fernández, was a Cuban singer-pianist and songwriter. His name originates from his round, black face. Villa Fernández was born in Guanaba ...

'' (2003). In 1971 he formed the group Jarka and in 1973 he began working with

Toti Soler Jordi Soler i Galí (born 7 June 1949), known by the stage name Toti Soler, is a Spanish guitarist, singer and composer, member of cult groups Pic-Nic in the 1960s and Om in the 1970s. He had a classical training with influences of blues, jazz and ...

. In the late 1990s he toured with

Maria del Mar Bonet Maria del Mar Bonet i Verdaguer (Balearic Catalan: ; born 1947 in Palma de Mallorca) is a Spanish singer from the island of Majorca. Early life and career Bonet studied ceramics in the school of arts, but eventually decided to dedicate herself ...

and other notable Spanish artists. He died on 10 January 2022, at the age of 73.Mor el pianista Jordi Sabatés als 73 anys

References

External links

Official site
* * 1948 births 2022 deaths 21st-century Spanish male musicians 21st-century Spanish pianists Spanish pianists Spanish composers Spanish film score composers Spanish male film score composers Musicians from Barcelona Spanish male pianists {{Spain-musician-stub