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, and

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. He has also recorded songs by

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. Serrat was one of the pioneers of what is known in Catalan as "

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" (

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). Joan Manuel Serrat is also known by the names "El noi del Poble-sec" and "El Nano".

Biography

Childhood

Joan Manuel Serrat Teresa was born 27 December 1943 in the Poble-sec neighbourhood of

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, to members of a working family. His father, Josep Serrat, was a Catalan anarchist affiliated with the CNT and his mother, Ángeles Teresa, a housewife, was from Belchite,

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in the region of

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. His childhood and environment in his neighbourhood greatly impacted him, as a great number of his songs described

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after the

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(examples are "La Carmeta", "La tieta" and "El drapaire" as stereotypical characters from his neighbourhood).

Early career

Serrat became involved with music at the age of 17 when he obtained his first guitar to which he dedicated one of his earliest songs, "Una guitarra". In the early 1960s, the young artist participated in a pop band, playing along with classmates at Barcelona's Agronomy School and performing mainly Beatles songs and Italian 'pop-of-the-era' songs translated to Spanish. In 1965, while singing in a radio show called Radioscope, host Salvador Escamilla helped him secure a record deal with local label Edigsa, from there joining the group

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which defended the Catalan language during the

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. In that same year, he recorded his first EP ''Una guitarra'' with the songs ''Una guitarra'', ''Ella em deixa'', ''La mort de l'avi'' and ''El mocador''. In 1966 appeared his second EP ''Ara que tinc vint anys'' with the songs ''Ara que tinc vint anys'', ''Quan arriba el fred'', ''El drapaire'' and ''Sota un cirerer florit''. In 1967 his first LP was released ''Ara que tinc vint anys'' which included some songs from previous EP recordings, as well as ''Balada per a un trobador'', ''Els vells amants'' and ''Els titelles''. Joan Manuel Serrat's first live stage performance in 1967 at the

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, served to establish him as one of the most important artists inside the

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movement in Catalonia. The following year,

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(TVE) entered Serrat in the

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to sing " La, la, la", but he demanded to sing it in Catalan, to which the broadcaster did not agree. This would be the first time he would come into conflict with the language politics of Francoist Spain, because of his decision to sing in his native language. Ultimately, Serrat participation was cancelled, and was hurriedly replaced by

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, who went on to win the contest with her performance in Spanish.

1969–1976

Serrat's first son Queco was born in 1969, and in that same year he made his first tour to South America. He released an album containing songs with texts of

, a well-known Spanish poet of late 19th-early 20th century. This album brought him immediate fame in all Spain and Latin America though, in spite of this, his decision to sing in Spanish was criticized in some Catalan nationalist circles. Regarding this and other times when his choice of language (sometimes Spanish, sometimes Catalan) raised controversy on either side of the political sphere, he once explained: "I sing better in the language they forbid me."Joan Manuel Serrat to retire from performing
''BBC'', 2 December 2021 This statement has often been interpreted in the context of the Francoist regime’s repression of Catalan, but Serrat later clarified that he was referring to Spanish. In democratic Spain, knowledge of Spanish is legally mandatory throughout the country, as established in Article 3 of the 1978 Constitution, whereas no law in Catalonia obliges citizens to know Catalan.Spanish Constitution, Article 3
Boletín Oficial del Estado, 1978
Observatori de les Llengües, 2021 He participated and won the song festival of

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in 1970 with his single "Penélope". The release of the ''Mediterráneo'' LP in 1971 consolidated the artist's reputation worldwide. During that year, Serrat sang a seminal concert at the theater of the

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, which was highly influential in the Puerto Rican music community of the time, and which had repercussions as late as 2006. In late 1974, Serrat was exiled in

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due to his condemnation of capital punishment in

. It wasn't until Franco's death on 20 November 1975 that Serrat was able to return to his homeland. In 1976, Joan Manuel Serrat was acclaimed for the first time in the United States, while performing in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York.

1977–1994

1995 to present

In January 1995, the Spanish government awarded him a medal for his contribution to Hispanic culture. That same year, a tribute album called ''Serrat, eres único'' was made to honour his career, featuring artists such as Diego Torres,

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, and

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. In the same year, he toured "Nadie es Perfecto", through several countries in Latin America. In February 1995, Serrat gave a concert at University of Lima, in Lima, Peru. On 28 November 1998, Serrat performed the ''

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'' during the

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Centenary festival at the

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. In 2000, the Spanish Association of Authors and Editors ( SGAE) awarded him with one of ten Medals of the Century. Serrat revealed in October 2004 that he had been undergoing treatment for cancer of the

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and in November that year he had to cancel a tour of Latin America and the US in order to undergo surgery in Barcelona, where he still lives. His signature song "Mediterráneo" was selected as the most important song of the 20th century in Spain. His recovery was satisfactory, and in 2005 he went on tour again ("Serrat 100×100") around Spain and Latin America with his lifelong producer and arranger, Ricard Miralles. During the tour Serrat played symphonic versions of his songs with local symphony orchestras. A second volume of ''Serrat, eres único'' was also released this year, featuring

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, and Pasión Vega. Around the same time, Cuban artists such as

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, and

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came together to make another tribute CD, ''Cuba le canta a Serrat''. By 2006, the theater of the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras where Serrat sang in 1970 had undergone a multimillion-dollar renovation, after being closed for ten years. The university planned to reopen the theater with Serrat as its first popular culture act, thus recalling his first performance there. However, student protests over the university conceding private entities control over some theater administration functions ended up in a physical confrontation between some student leaders and patrons attending the theater's inaugural gala, the day before Serrat's first scheduled performance. As a result, the concerts had to be postponed and changed to another venue. Serrat felt particularly uneasy about the whole situation; when he was pressed to take sides in the controversy he opted to remain neutral. In 2006, Serrat also released Mô, his first album completely in Catalan in 17 years. The album title refers to the city of

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, capital of the Spanish island of

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, where he likes to get away from it all during long touring seasons. In 2017 and 2018, he carried a tour named "Mediterraneo da Capo" to commemorate the 47th anniversary of his mythical record "Mediterraneo". Olympia joanmanuelserrat

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Legacy

There are many artists and authors of songs that have paid homage to the figure and work of Joan Manuel Serrat. Among the most noteworthy are ''Ahí te mando mi guitarra, Juan Manuel'', composed by

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and played by Blanca Villa while Serrat was in exile for his statements against the death penalty; the recent ''Maldito Serrat'' by the Argentine singer-songwriter Ignacio Copani; ''Mi primo el Nano'', composed by his friend

, and the ''Canción para un maño'', a song by

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adapted by Paco Ibáñez. Apart from these songs that deal exclusively with the figure of Joan Manuel Serrat, there are others that mention the name of Joan Manuel Serrat or some of his songs. These are the cases of Alberto Cortez in his live version of ''No soy de aquí'', by Joaquín Sabina himself when he recorded ''No hago otra cosa que pensar en ti'' on the album '' Serrat, eres único'', of

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in "Ser de agua" or of singer-songwriters like Juan Carlos Baglietto,

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, Javier Ruibal,

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, Fernando Delgadillo,

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, Amaury Pérez, Vicente Feliú, Alejandro Filio, Kiko Tovar,

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, Ramiro Segrelles, Joan Isaac,

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, Liuba María Hevia, Alejandro Nardecchia,

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, among others. You can also quote in this section the lyrics of ''Sóc el millor'', which Francesc Pi de la Serra composed, although more than in homage was a harsh criticism towards Serrat for his decision of Joan Manuel to sing also in Spanish. Also noteworthy is the humorous version of the song ''Ara que tinc vint anys'', which La Trinca recorded with a change in title: ''Ara que tinc 80 anys''.

Political views

In 1974, during a visit to Mexico, an arrest warrant was issued for Serrat in Spain after he criticised the death penalty and the "established and official violence" of the dictatorship of

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. Serrat lived in exile for the remainder of the

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, returning after the death of Franco in 1975 and Spain's return to democracy. In several of his statements. Serrat has criticized the independence movement of Catalonia, as well as the 1 October 2017 Catalan independence referendum, becoming a figure for Catalans who choose the union of Spain. He has also criticized several times the economic corruption of the independentist Catalan government and the national government of

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. Serrat holds the view that the unilateral 2017 Catalan declaration of independence and the reaction from the government of Rajoy served the purpose of "covering up years of cuts and economic corruption" from both the Catalan regional government and Spanish national government. On several occasions, some in the independence movement called for a boycott against Serrat.

Serrat and Llach

Joan Manuel Serrat has long been compared to fellow Catalan singer-songwriter

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, particularly in regard to their linguistic choices and political symbolism. While Llach exclusively performed in Catalan as an act of cultural and political assertion, especially during and after the Franco regime, Serrat opted to sing in both Catalan and Spanish, which earned him both praise and criticism. Some viewed his bilingualism as a bridge between communities, while others saw it as a concession to mainstream Spanish audiences.Llach y Serrat: tan lejos, tan cerca
''Beat Valencia'', 2015
''El País'', 2 December 2021 Despite their differences, both artists are regarded as iconic voices of modern Catalan music.

Select discography

Albums

* 1967: ''Ara que tinc Vint Anys'' * 1968: ''Cançons Tradicionals'' * 1969: ''Com ho fa el Vent'' * 1969: ''La Paloma'' * 1969: ''Dedicado a Antonio Machado, poeta'' * 1970: ''Serrat IV'' * 1971: '' Mediterráneo'' * 1972: ''Vagabundear'' * 1972: ''Miguel Hernández'' * 1973: ''Per al meu Amic'' * 1974: ''Canción Infantil'' * 1975: ''...Para Piel de Manzana'' * 1976: ''Retratos'' * 1977: ''Res no és Mesquí'' * 1978: ''1978'' * 1979: ''Mi Niñez'' * 1980: ''Tal com Raja'' * 1981: ''En Tránsito'' * 1983: ''Cada Loco con su Tema'' * 1984: ''Fa Vint Anys que tinc Vint Anys'' * 1984: ''En Directo'' * 1985: ''El Sur También Existe'' * 1986: ''Sinceramente Teu'' * 1987: ''Bienaventurados'' * 1989: ''Material Sensible'' * 1992: ''Utopía'' List of number-one albums of 1992 (Spain) * 1994: ''Nadie es Perfecto'' * 1996: ''Banda Sonora d'un Temps d'un País'' * 1996: ''El Gusto Es Nuestro'' * 1998: ''Sombras de la China'' * 2000: ''Cansiones (Tarrés)'' * 2002: ''Versos en la Boca'' * 2003: ''Serrat Sinfónico'' * 2006: ''Mô'' * 2007: ''Dos Pájaros de un Tiro'' * 2010: ''Hijo de la Luz y de la Sombra'' * 2012: ''

La orquesta del Titanic ''La orquesta del Titanic'' ("The Titanic's orchestra") is the second joint studio album by Joan Manuel Serrat and Joaquín Sabina after ''Dos pájaros de un tiro'' ("Two birds with one stone") in 2007. The name of the album is a nod to the mus ...

'' *2012: Serrat & Sabina En El Luna Park *2015: En Bellas Artes

Tribute albums

* 1969:

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– ''Tete Montoliu Interpreta a Serrat'' (Discmedi) * 1977: Tete Montoliu – ''

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'' (Timeless) * 1995: Varios – ''Serrat, eres único'' (BMG Ariola) * 2002: Ricardo León – ''Antes que lleguen los perros'' (Whitehill) * 2004: Ricardo León – ''Levementeodioso'' (Whitehill) * 2005: Varios – ''Serrat, eres único (volumen 2)'' (BMG Ariola) * 2005: Varios – ''Cuba le canta a Serrat'' (Discmedi) * 2006: Varios – ''Per al meu amic Serrat'' (Discmedi) * 2007: Varios – ''Cuba le canta a Serrat (volumen 2)'' (Discmedi)

Some awards and recognitions received

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for the best musical activity (1970 and 1972) *

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special award of the Organization for his professional career in the history of Spanish popular music in 1995. *

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(

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) in 1999. * Honorary Doctorate from the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos of

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), 16 May 2003. * Doctor honoris causa by

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(

), 25 November 2005. * Doctor honoris causa for the

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(

), 12 January 2006. * Doctor honoris causa by the

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, on 15 March 2006. * Doctor honoris causa by

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, on 21 May 2010. * Doctor honoris causa by

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of Barcelona, on 14 June 2011. * Honorary Doctorate from the

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, on 22 September 2011. * Honorary Doctorate from the Autonomous University of Mexico State, on 13 October 2015 * Premios Micrófono de Oro award of Castile and León (Spain), in 2003. * Gold Medal of the city of Barcelona, on 24 March 2006. * His Mediterráneo song was chosen as the best song of the 20th century Spanish language by the ''

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'' magazine, in 2006. * Spanish Gold

Medal of Merit in Labour The Medal of Merit in Labour () is a civil medal awarded in Spain by the Council of Ministers in its gold category and by the Ministry of Labour in its silver and bronze categories to individuals or institutions excelling in a useful and exempla ...

for his entire career, on 25 March 2006. * Medal of Honor of

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, in 2007. * Premio Nacional de Músicas Actuales award, in 2010. *

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in insignia degree, by the federal government of

in 2010. * City of Barcelona Award for music, for his work "Hijo de la luz y de la sombra" (2010). * Premio Luna del Auditorio Nacional award as the best Ibero-American show next to

. (2013). *

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, honorary award as 2014 Person of the Year. (2014). *

award, For his artistic career. (2014). * Premio Cortes de Cádiz award, 2015. * High Distinction of the Generalitat Valenciana * Grand Cross of the Order of James I the Conqueror, 2017. * Doctor Honoris Causa by the

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(UNR) (Argentina), on 7 October 2017 * Grand Cross of the

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, on 8 December 2021. *

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for the Arts.

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Joan Manuel Serrat – Desde siempre y para siempre

Joan Manuel Serrat discography
at Music City

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Biography

Childhood

Early career

1969–1976

1977–1994

1995 to present

Legacy

Political views

Serrat and Llach

Select discography

Albums

Tribute albums

Some awards and recognitions received

See also

References

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